Section A国家优质课一等奖

Unit 7

It’s raining!

巩义市市直第四初级中学

席会平

一、教学背景

这一单元的中心话题是Describe the weather。语法现象是Present Progressive Tense。继Unit6 I’m watching TV第二次出现了现在进行时态，是上一单元的延续。

比较上一单元，本单元增设了一个日常生活中重要的情景Talking about the weather 。学生不但要具备并熟练地掌握现在进行时态的意识和技巧，并且要会运用这一时态描述在各种天气背景下人的活动。

二、

教材内容

本单元语言训练的重点是（1）谈论天气；（2）描述正在发生的动作。重点语言结构是（1）How引导的特殊疑问句；（2）Yes/No问句及答语；（3）现在进行时的用法。Section A主要是听读说和基础语言运用，为目标句型提供分步示例和指导性练习；Section B知识扩展、新旧知识的运用，循序渐进的写作练习；运用所学的语言完成各种任务使学生能够对已经学过的目标句型运用自如：Self -Check自我评价，词汇知识的评价，语言应用能力的评价。

三、

单元总体学习目标

1、词汇

基础核心词汇：sunny, cloudy, snowing, raining, windy, cold, hot, cool, warm, humid, terrible

掌握：rain, snow, weather, cook, study, bad, pretty, lying, beach, group, surprised, beat, relaxed, winter, scarf, everyone, man, like

了解：Moscow, Boston, how’s=how is, vocation, beach, volleyball

补充词汇：spring, summer, autumn,

2、语法

(1)现在进行时

(2) 有关天气的特殊问句及答语

3、日常交际用语

How’s the weather in Moscow?

What’s the weather like in Shanghai?

What are you/they doing? It’s raining.

It’s sunny.

We/They are watching TV.

What is he/she doing? How’s it going?

4、语言技能

He/she is cooking. Great! 1）能用英语打招呼和描述并谈论不同的天气。

2）能用现在进行时互相交流。

3）能用现在进行时叙述在不同地方的和不同的天气背景下人们能做的事。

5、情感态度

1）通过课文教学引导学生关注天气情况，爱护环境，保护大气等自然资源的良好意识。

2）通过学习打招呼、谈论天气和所做的事时所用的交际用语，学会与人友好相处。

3）通过学习和对比不同天气背景下人的活动，激发学生的内在情感，进行爱的教育。

4）能在小组活动中积极与他人合作，相到帮助，共同完成学习任务。

6、文化意识

了解不同地方和不同的天气背景下人们能做的事，互相交流不同国家的文化，对学生进行不同文化意识的渗透。同时让了解其他国家风景，风俗，增加学生的背景知识，增强学科间的交流。培养学生具有一定的环保意识、责任意识和关爱他人之心。

7、学习策略

通过任务型的教学，让学生学会自主学习，归纳总结，培养主动学习的能力。尤其对所学内容能主动复习并加以整理和归纳的能力。

Period One Section A

1a—2c Ⅰ. Teaching aims 1. Knowledge ①Words:rain,windy,cloudy,sunny,snow,weather,Moscow,Boston,how’s,bad. ②Sentence structures: How’s it going? How’s the weather? What’s the weather like?

2. Ability: Talk about the weather and greet each other with a new structure. 3. Cultural awareness: A new way of greetings and asking about the weather is quite a

common greeting in western countries. ⅡImportant points: A new way of greetings and the description words about the weather. Ⅲ.Difficult points: How’s the weather? It’s raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/.

How’s it going? Great! /Not bad! /Terrible! /Pretty good!

ⅥTeaching procedures

Step1. Warming up 1. Greeting the Ss as usual: What day is it today? How are you? 2. Give a new expression which has the same meaning as

How are you? : How’s it going? But the new one has more answers. Step2. Lead—in 1. Play a weather song, and then let the students guess what we will learn in this class. 2. Show the learning aims and give the students two minutes to read it. 3. Show a picture and ask the Ss question. Step3. Presentation 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. Point out the numbered list of description words. Say each one and ask Ss to repeat the words again. Then ask Ss to match each word with one of cities in the picture. Check the answers. 3. Match the words with the pictures from A to E, finish 1a.. 4. T:

Mr Clerk is a business man, next week he is travelling around the world on business. Which cities is he gong to? Oh, he is going to Beijing , Toronto , Boston , Moscow and Shanghai. Learn the new words Toronto , Boston , Moscow. 3. Play the tape and get Ss to fill in the blanks. Check the answers. 4. Look at the 5 pictures in 1a. Encourage Ss to use the description words to describe the

weather: ①Beijing—sunny ②Shanghai—cloudy ③Boston—windy ④Moscow—snowing ⑤Toronto—raining.

4. 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: 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 like “Here is the weather report of today, Good morning, everyone. I’m a weather report from CCTV…. ”

Step5. Do listening practice and finish 2a and 2b. Step6. Do oral practice like this: This is Uncle Joe’s family. It’s 6:00p.m.

Uncle Joe’s family are doing different things. Uncle Joe is ……

Step7. Do exercises. Step8. Summary

Step9. Homework 1.

Summarize the words about the weather. 2.

Make up three conversations about the weather using windy / cloudy / rainy.