Unit17

Unit 17

Teaching Plan

(Unit 17 Book Ⅱ)

临汾五中 王文娟

Teaching Plan for Unit 17

What’s the weather like today?

Lesson 65

I. Teaching aims:

1． Words and expressions

dry wet cloud cloudy sunny rainy wind windy later on (Four

skills)

2． Greetings: What’s the weather like today?

It’s very cold, but quite sunny.

3． Grammar: Exclamatory Sentences

4． Moral education: Love the nature by talking about the

weather

II. Teaching importance: The words about describing the

weather

III. Teaching difficulty: Exclamatory Sentences

IV. Teaching method: The Communicative Approach

V. Teaching tools: recorder, slides, cards, pictures.

VI. Teaching steps:

Step 1. Revise and lead-in:

Ask the answer something about four seasons.

T: How many seasons are there in a year?

S: Four.

T: Which season do you like best?

S: Spring (Summer, Autumn, Winter).

T: Why? S: It’s not too hot or too cold. It’s warm.

T: Oh. Because of the warm weather, some of us like spring.

Today, we’ll just talk about the weather.

Step 2. Presentation

Show the flash cards and pictures. Let the Ss try to read the

words and understand them with the help of the pictures.

Step 3. Drill

Use the pictures to ask the Ss questions:

T: Look at this picture. What’s the weather like?

S: It’s very cold.

…

Step 4. Practice

Open the book. Look at the pictures in page 65. Talk about

the pictures in pairs. As follow:

What’s the weather like?

It’s…

Step 5. Presentation

1． Showing the flash card for “Cloudy” and saying:

“The weather is very very cloudy.”

“How cloudy it is!”

Explain the use of exclamatory sentences to show surprise,

pleasure, anger, etc.

Repeat for the other flash cards. Then show the cards to the

Ss and get them to say “How cloudy/ hot/ wet it is! Etc.

2． Draw the cloudy picture on the Bb. Write “morning”

underneath. Next to it draw a sunny picture, with “afternoon”

underneath. Tell the Ss to compare the two pictures.

Say: How cloudy it is this morning! But it’s going to be

sunnier this afternoon.

3． Explain that, and repeat the procedure, using flash cards, for wet/ drier, cold/ warmer, hot/ cooler.

Step 6. Drill and practice

Get half the class to say “How wet it is this morning!” and

the other half to reply “Yes, but it’s going to be drier this

afternoon.” (by showing the pairs of flash cards)

Practise SB page 65, Part 2. Explain that “Late on = Later in

the day.

Practise Part 3. Read through the dialogue and get the Ss to

practise in pairs.

Explain that Both How cold it is! And What a cold day it is!

Are exclamatory sentences though how is followed by an adj. or

an adv. Whereas what is followed by a noun.

Step 7. Exercises in class (Show slides)

1． n. →adj.

wind - (windy) cloud - (cloudy) rain - (rainy)

snow - (snowy) sun - (sunny) ice - (icy)

2． Fill in the blanks

1) There is a strong (wind). It’s windy today.

2) It’s cloudy. Look at the (clouds) in the sky.

3) It’s another rainy day. There is too much (rain) this spring.

4) Look at the (ice) on the road. It’s an icy road.

5) It’s sunny today. The (sun) is very bright.

3． Ask and answer in pairs. (According to the information

given to Ss)

CITY TEMPERATURE

Min(c) Max(c) WEATHER

Beijing

Xi’an

Tian jin

Cheng du Kun ming

Hong Kong 2 10

-1 8

1 9

5 10

4 23

11 17 Cloudy

Cloudy

Sunny

Rainy

Clear

Rainy

Model: A: What’s the weather like in Xi’an today?

B: It’s cloudy in the morning and is going to be sunny later

on.

A: What about Tian jin?

…

Step 8. Homework: P.65 Ex 2. Ex 4

VII. The design of writing on the Bb

What’s the weather like?

It’s very cold.

How cold it is today!

Yes, but it’s going to be warmer later on.

What a cold day!

Yes, but it’s going to get colder, I’m afraid!

VIII. Feeling after class:

Most Ss can learn the words and greetings easily. But it’s

not easy to manage the exclamatory sentences. So we should

give some more exercises about the difficulty.

Lesson 66 I. Teaching aims:

1． Words and expressions

Bright ice thin thick strong strongly blow beautiful shine

sunshine at the moment too much ice

2． Greetings:

It’s blowing strongly. It’s quite windy, and there is a lot of

snow.

3． Grammar:

Making words nouns→adj. adj.→adv.

4． Moral education:

Love the nature and learn to do sports outside.

II. Teaching importance:

1． adj.→adv.

2． Revise how to telephone

III. Teaching difficulty:

Too much + n.

Much too + adj. (adv.)

IV. Teaching method: The Audio-visual Method

V. Teaching tools: recorder, slides, picture

VI. Teaching steps:

Step 1. Revise

1． Check the homework.

2． Revise exclamatory sentences:

“Please speak the exclamatory sentences n another way”

say to the class.

1) T: How sunny it is today!

Ss: What a sunny day it is!

2) T: What a nice girl she is!