Section A教案2

Unit 6 It’s raining !

Section A 1a---2c Teaching aims

一. Key words and target language :

weather, sunny, windy, cloudy, rainy, snowy,cook,

--How is the weather in...?

---It's ...

What are you doing?

--I'm playing basketball.

What is he doing?

--He is playing basketball.

二.Ability Objects：

1.Train students’ listening and speaking skills.

2. Train studets’ ability of understanding.

Teaching Key Points：

1.Key phrases and target language. Teaching Difficulties：

Master the key sentences.

Step1. Warming up 1.

Review phrases in pairwork. 2.

Review the words they learned at home

Step2. Presentation

Check students’ individual learning：let them write the words they learnt on the blackboard. Work in pairs. Role-play the conversation in 1b. Step3. Practice and listening test

Listen for pronunciation.1b

1. Let one student ask me: How’s it going? I may answer like this: Terrible! Because it’s snowing and it’s 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 and snowing. Ask them: How’s the weather? Get them to answer like: It’s 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 words to describe the weather: ①Beijing—sunny and warm/hot ②Shanghai—cloudy and cool ③Boston—windy and cool ④Moscow—snowing and cold ⑤Toronto—raining and humid. Show an arrow to identify the degree of the 4 adjectives: cold, cool, warm and hot. 3. Practice with the structures: How’s the weather? and What’s the weather like? with the 5 pictures The exact weather on that day should not be missed. Note: Talkin about the weather is quite common in western countries as a daily greeting. Step4. Practice and listening test

Listen for pronunciation.（2a-2b）

1. After showing the cartoon, ask Ss: What are they doing? (They are singing and dancing.) Show more pictures with questions: What’s he/she doing? and What’re they doing? to get Ss to practice the tense which is the core grammar of this period. Get Ss to guess out the word cook by the picture. Choosing the right words and pair work are added as the reinforcements. 2．Let’s see what Joe’s families are doing. Point to the 4 pictures (The girl in the second picture is talking on the phone with the first speaker.). Ask Ss tell each person is doing in each picture. More attentions should be paid to the correct use of the Present

Progressive Tense. Use every hint to finish 2b.

3. Play the tape for Ss to have a check. One more time listening to finish 2a. Teach: What does your father do? He is a cook.. Compare cook with cooker. 4. With the whole picture, get some Ss to tell the story of it. Step5. Brainstorming

1. Play the tape for another time. Then do a memory test. Ask Ss: What’s Uncle Joe/Jeff/Mary/Aunt Sarah doing? What’re Scott and Lucy doing? Is Jeff watching TV? Etc. 2. Guessing game. Guess the activities people are doing Step6. Homework 1.Watch a weather report on TV and take down some notes about the weather forecast for tomorrow, and then write a report about it. 2.编写三个有关天气问答的对话。

1. windy

2. raining

3. snowy