Section A教学设计一等奖

Unit 6 It’s raining! Section A 1a-1c Period 1 教材选用：英语人教2001课标版，七年级下册，Unit 6. It’s raining! Section A 1a-1c Period 1 

Teaching aims A.

Knowledge objects a.

Master the new words and useful expressions. b.

Talk about the weather with the target language:

How’s the weather? /What’s the weather like?

It’s sunny/raining/windy/cloudy/snowing...... c.

Know how to ask and describe the weather. B.

Ability objects a.

Be able to master the target language. b.

Develop students’ 4 skills (listening/ speaking/ reading/ writing). C.

Moral objects Try to educate students to love their hometown. 

Teaching important points a.

Master the new adjective words and useful expressions. b.

Master the target language:

How’s the weather?/ What’s the weather like today? It’s sunny/raining/windy/cloudy/snowing...... c.

Improve students’ 4 skills (listening/ speaking/ reading/ writing).

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Teaching difficult points a.

Improve students’ 4 skills (listening/ speaking/ reading/ writing). b.

Ask and describe the weather by using the target language: How’s the weather?/ What’s the weather like? It’s sunny/raining/windy/cloudy/snowing...... 

Teaching aids Multi-media computer, PPT 

Teaching methods Five step method; Audio-video; Communicative approach; Task-based Teaching;Group work;Pair work. 

Teaching period: one class. 

Teaching procedures Step 1. Greeting and lead-in. Greeting the students as usual. At the beginning of this class, let the students enjoy a short funny video. Then ask the students: What is the man’s job? What is he doing now? By doing this, lead to the key words and phrases: weather/ weather report/ radio station/ weather reporter. At last, to the topic of this class: Weather reporter wanted.

T: Can anyone be a good weather reporter? Of course not. A good weather reporter needs to know how to describe the weather and how to ask the weather. Are you ready? Let’s learn the words about weather

firstly. Step 2. Learn the key words about weather. Teach the new words by showing some pictures to the students and ask: What’s this? It’s the sun. So it is a sunny day. What’s this? It’s the cloud. So it is a cloudy day. What’s this? It’s the wind. So it is a windy day. What’s this? It’s the rain. So it is raining now. It is a rainy day. What’s this? It’s the snow. So it is snowing now. It is a snowy day. After learning the key words, there are two words games prepared for the students. The first game is called “

Look and say”. Let students to say the right English words from the phonetic symbols and the Chinese meaning. The second game is called “Where is my house?”

There are ten words here. They get lost. Some of them are nouns. The others are adjectives. We must help them to find their house. Then make a summary: a noun can change into an adjective by adding a“y”. Next ask students to match the words with the pictures in 1a. At last, check the answers together. Step 3. Get to know the cities. T：As all of you have done a very good job in learning the key words, I will give you a reward. Let’s travel! We can start from our school. The

first stop is here. Where is this place?

S: Beijing. T: Here is the second stop. Where is this place? S: Shanghai. T: Please tell me what’s this?

Point to the national flag. And teach the students the new phrase “national flag”. T: This is our third stop. It is Toronto. Do you know where Toronto is?

Help students get to know Toronto is in Canada and its national flag. Then show a short video about Toronto. T: Next is our forth stop. It is Boston. Do you know where Boston is?

Help students get to know Boston is in the USA and its national flag. Then show a short video about Boston. T: The last stop is Moscow. Do you know where Moscow is?

Help students get to know Moscow is in Russia and its national flag. Then show a short video about Moscow. T: OK. The travel is over! Welcome back to our school. By doing this ,the students can get a better understanding of these cities. Step4.Learn how to report the weather. After learning the words and cities, let’s learn how to report the weather. Look at the picture in 1a and finish the activity of 1b: listen and write these city names in the boxes.

Play the recording for the first time and check the answer together. Play the recording for the second time and let students fill in the blanks. Check the answers one by one. Conversation 1 Tom: Hey, Peter. Peter: Hi, Tom. Tom:

's the

down here in Shanghai? Peter: It's

. How 's the weather in Moscow? Tom: It's

right now. T: We also can say: It is cloudy in Shanghai./It is snowing in Moscow. And please pay attention to the colorful sentences. They are the target language in our lesson.

Conversation 2 Peter: Hi, Aunt Sally. Aunt Sally: Hello, Peter. Peter: How 's the weather in

? Tom: Oh, it's

. Conversation 3 Peter: So, how 's the weather in

. Julie: It's

. Conversation 4 Peter: Hi, Uncle Bill.

Uncle Bill: Hello, Peter. Peter: How 's the weather in

? Uncle Bill: Oh, it's

, as usual. T: We also can say:It is windy in Boston./It is sunny in Beijing./It is raining in Toronto. So we can ask and describe the weather by using the sentences, like How’s the weather? =What’s the weather like? It’s...... . Then show the students some weather marks. Step 5. Pair work Imagine you are in one of the places in 1a. Talk about the weather with your friend on the phone by using the target language: How’s the weather?

It’s...... . Show some pictures

Then give a sample conversation so that the students can know how to do this activity. Leave students several minutes to do this work. As they work ,move around the classroom, offering help if necessary. Invite some pairs to act their conversation for the whole class. Step 6. Group work Challenge to the host. T: This is a map of China. From north to south, different cities have different weather. We have learn a lot about weather today. Let’s challenge the weather reporter from CCTV. Here is the example:

Hello, everyone! Here is the weather report. Today is …. It’s sunny in Beijing . It’s …in Shanghai …Thank you for listening. Leave students several minutes to do this work by using the target language. And tell them how to get stars. As they work, move around the classroom, offering help if necessary. Invite some pairs to act their conversation for the whole class. Step 7. Homework T: look at here. This is a map of Jiangxi. In today’s class, we have gone to five beautiful cities. But for me , our hometown also have many beautiful places. East, west, home is best. In our hometown, the weather is also different from north to south. Please write down some sentences according to the picture and use what we have learnt today. Thanks for listening. Step 8. Blackboard design. Unit6. It’s raining! Section A 1a-1c New words

Structure weather

sun-sunny

How’s the weather?

cloud-cloudy

wind-windy

What’s the weather like? rain-raining-rainy snow-snowing-snowy

It’s...... . national flag