Unit 7 It’s raining ! (Section A 1a-1c)
Teaching aims
1. Words : weather, sunny, windy, cloudy, rainy, snowy
2. Can use the structures:
--How is the weather in...? ---It's ...
Ability Objects：
1.Train students’ listening and speaking skills.
2. Train studets’ ability of understanding.
Teaching Key Points：
1.Key phrase.
2.Target language.
Teaching Difficulties：
Master the key sentence structure
Teaching Procedures：
Step 1. Warming-up and Lead-in
1. Let Ss listen to a song “Rhythm of the rain”
2. T: Do you like this song?
T: Do you know the song? Ss: 雨中旋律
T: Yes. What kind of sound do you hear in this song?
Ss: 打雷，下雨
3. T: Yes. It’s raining in this song. Today we’ll learn Unit 7. It’s raining.
Step 2. Presentation
1. Show some pictures
T: What’s this in English? （ It’s the sun.）
2. Then show some other pictures.
T: How’s the weather in the picture?
Ss: It’s sunny.
(In the same way, finish teaching the words “sun, cloud, wind, rain, snow”“windy, cloudy, raining, snowing”)
Step 3 Play a song
Let Ss try to find the answers to the two questions.
How many kinds of weather are there in the song?
What are they?
Step 4 work on 1a
1. Show some signs of the weather to the students and get them to know the signs.
2. teacher ask and students answer “How’s the weather? It’s...”
(Show more pictures about the weather in different places)
T: Look, how’s the weather in..? Ss: It’s raining in ....
T: How’s the weather in ...? S1: It’s cloudy in ....
3.Ask students to match the words with the pictures
Step 5. Listening
1b. Listen and write these city names in the boxes above.
(Before listening, show pictures of the five cities and teach the places. Get Ss to
familiar with these places.
Step 6. Pair work
1c. Imagine you are in one of the places. Talk about the weather with your partner
on the phone.
A: Hi! How’s the weather in the Beijing?
B: It’s sunny.
Step 7. Weather report
Show a map of China. Ask Ss to talk about the weather in some cities in China.
Report: Good morning. Here is CCTV weather report. It’s…in Beijing. It’s…in Guangzhou. It’s…in Shanghai. And it’s…in Ningbo. Thank you.
Step 8 Summarize and homework.
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