Unit 7 It’s raining
Ⅰ.Teaching Aims and Demands
1. Knowledge Objects
Key vocabulary Target language 2. Ability Object
Train students’ listening skill.
Train students’ communicative competence.
3. Moral Object
In the west, people like talking about the weather instead of asking have you eaten? Or where are you going? It’s impolite to ask such question in the west.
Ⅱ. Teaching Key Points
Key words
Learn to talk about the weather using the target language Present progressive tense.
Ⅲ. Teaching Difficulties
The key words.
Learn to talk about the weather using the target language. Train students’ listening skill.
Train students’ communicative competence.
The Present progressive tense
Ⅳ. Teaching Methods
Listening and speaking methods Pair work &Group work Scene teaching methods
Ⅴ. Teaching Aids
A computer
Ⅵ. Teaching Procedures
StepⅠ Greeting & Review
Greet the class as usual.
Review the Present progressive tense
StepⅡ New Lesson
1. Use some pictures to lead the new words and sentences. 2. Read the new words and sentences. 3. Recognize the signs of the weather.
StepⅢ 1b Listening
Students are to listen and write the weather of the cities.
StepⅣ 2a
1. Work with a partner. Make conversations about the weather in the picture in activity 2a.
2. Ask different students to say their conversations to the class.
StepⅤ Simulation
1. Get students to work in group.
2. Ask some students to simulate the weather reporter to report the weather to the class.
StepⅥ Exercise
Get some students to do exercises about the key points.
StepⅦ Entertainment
Get students to enjoy a song Rain, Rain Go Away.
StepⅧ Summary
Summary the target language we’ve learned in this class.
StepⅨ Homework
1. Watch the Weather Forecast on CCTV-1.
2. Memorize the spellings of the key words learned in this class.
3. Distinguish the difference of these words.
Ⅶ. Blackboard Design
Unit 7 It’s raining.
sun sunny How’s the weather? wind windy What’s the weather like? cloud cloudy It’s sunny / windy... rain rainy snow snowy