1、=【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = Unit 7 Its raining! 单元分析 本单元的中心话题是谈论天气 . 整个单元的内容围绕天气展开听、说、读、写的活动。通过本单元的学习使学生掌握描述天气的基本词汇及对天气的提问，学会准确地表达自己对某种天气的喜好并说明原因，学会做天气预报，学生叙述在不同的天气背景下做什么。通 过以上活动，使学生能够在实践中体会到学习英语的乐趣，更积极地运用目标语言，培养学生在实际生活中综合运用所学语言能力。 教学目标 1、作学习重点词汇： raining, sunny, cloudy, snowing , windy, hot ,cool, warm, humid
2、,和部分现在分 词。 2、 掌握描绘天气状态的形容词及现在分词，并学会其特殊疑问句、一般疑问句的用法及回答。 教学重点 A 学习并掌握记汇： raining, sunny, cloudy, snowing , windy, hot ,cool, warm, humid B 熟练掌握现在进行时的用法； 学会表达对不同天气的不同态度及原因。 教学难点 学会描述人们在不同的天气里所做的各种活动。 教具：教学挂图、录音机 课时安排 第一课时 Section A 1a- 2c 第二课时 Section A 3a-4 第三课时 Section B 1a-2c 第四课时 Section B 3a-4 Per
3、iod 1(Section A 1a, 1b, 1c, Section B 1a, 1b) Teaching aims 1 、Words:rain,windy,cloudy,sunny,snow,weather,Moscow,Boston,hows,bad,terrinle,pretty, cool, cold, humid, warm, hot 2、 Sentence structures: Hows it going? Hows the weather? Whats the weather like? Important points A new way of greetings and
4、the description words about the weather. Difficult points Hows the weather? Its raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/. =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = Hows it going? Great! /Not bad ! /Terrible! /Pretty good! Teaching procedures Step1. Warming up 1. Ask the Ss randomly: Whats the date today? What day is it today? Ho
5、w are you? 2. Give a new expression which has the same meaning as How are you? : Hows i t going? But the new one has more answers. Step2. Presentation 1. Show 4 faces on the screen and ask Ss to describe each face using whatever words they can. Help Ss identify each person is feeling. 2. Then show 4
6、 words. Say the words and ask Ss to repeat each one. Ask Ss to match each remembered phrase with a face. Encourage them to spell the phrases by How do you spell it? 3. Practice with the new structure by the whole class: Choose one to the front and the others guess the description words through his/h
7、er facial expressions. Step3. Practice and listening test 1. Let one student ask me: Hows it going? I may answer like this: Terrible! Because its snowing and its so cold. Show a picture of snowing day and children are making a snowman and pretend to be very cold. Make Ss guess the words: the weather
8、 and snowing. Ask them: Hows the weather? Get them to answer like: Its snowing/snowy. Go on with other kinds of weather: sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy. 2. Play the tape and get Ss to write the city names in the boxes. Check the answers. Look at the 5 pictures in 1a. Encourage Ss to use the description
9、 words to describe the weather: Beijing sunny and warm/hot Shanghai cloudy and cool Boston windy and cool Moscow snowing and cold Toronto raining and humid. Show an arrow to identify the degree of the 4 adjectives: cold, cool, warm and hot. 4. Practice with the structures: Hows the weather? and What
10、s the wea ther like? with the 5 pictures The exact weather on that day should not be missed. Note: Talking about the weather is quite common in western countries as a daily greeting. Step4. Weather report Show a weather map of China. Get Ss to make a weather report as a CCTV anchor. They may begin w
11、ith asking the weather in each city, then make up a report about it. =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = Step5. Chant Show an easy chant to reinforce the questions and words about the weather. Step6. Homework 1. Copy the new words 4 times each. 2. Summarize the usages of how in questions. 3. Watch a weather report on TV and take down some notes about the weather forecast for tomorrow, and then write a report about it.
