3a—3e板书设计及设计说明

Unit 6

It’s raining!教学设计

Ⅰ. Teaching aims

1. Knowledge

①Words :bad, terrible, pretty good, hot, cold, cool, warm, humid

②Additional words: spring, summer, autumn

③Sentence structures: How’s it going? What are you doing? How’s the weather?

2. Ability: Describe the different kinds of weather and different activities in different areas

ⅡImportant points: Revise and use the words, expressions and sentence structures correctly.

Ⅲ.Difficult points: Describe the weather in 4 seasons and people’s activities

ⅥTeaching procedures

Step1. Revision

1. Show different weather signs to revise the description words in Section A. Draw an arrow to revise the 4 words: cold, cool, warm and hot. But don’t forget humid.

2. Get Ss to look at Picture C .Tell them: It’s Chengdu. How is the weather in it? It’s sunny. Is it cool? No, it’s hot. It’s hot and humid.

Step2 Make a survey

Make a survey by the whole class. Ask Ss: Who likes the cold weather? Have Ss raise their hands. Use the way and talk about the different weather, draw faces to teach the different expressions “ not bad, great, terrible, pretty good ” Check out the most popular and the least popular weather. Get Ss to talk

about the local weather in 4 seasons.

Step3 Work on 3a and 3b.

Step4. Presentation

1. After talking about the local weather in 4 seasons, let’s watch different weather in other countries. Tell Ss Maria is in Mexico. Play this phone conversation between Sam and Maria. Listen carefully to their questions and answers. Play the tape the first time, Ss only listen. Play the tape again and have Ss catch the answers Maria and Sam give to the question How’s it going? Listen again and write what they answer to What are you doing? and How’s the weather?

2. Further discussion. Show 4 pictures. With the 4 questions ①Where is it? ②How is the weather? ③What season is it? ④What are the people doing? Ss talk about the countries, the weather, the seasons and the activities.

country weather season activities

Japan cool spring watch the flowers

America(Hawaii) hot summer swim

Canada warm autumn watch the leaves

American cold winter do sports

Step5. Interview

1. After visiting the 4 places, ask some Ss: Where do you want to go? When do you want to go there? How’s the weather? What do you want to do there? Let them describe the places they want to go most.

2. Ss make an interview in the class., and then give a report about.

3. Let’s find out. Find out what kinds of activities someone

wants to do on certain days.

Step6. Homework

!. Copy the new words 4 times.

2. Interview their family members about the place they want to go most and the situations there, and then write a report about it.

Unit 6

It’s raining!

Period Two(Section A 2a, 2b, 2c, 4+ Grammar Focus)

Ⅰ. Teaching aims

1. Knowledge

①Words: cook, study

②Sentence structures: What are you/ they doing? We/ They are…

What is he/she doing? He/ She is …

Yes/No questions and short answers.

2. Ability: Ask and answer the Present Progressive Tense, and describe the activities people are doing

3. Cultural awareness: The inner feelings of the Ss are motivated by understanding and comparing different people’s lives in different areas.

ⅡImportant points: the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense

Ⅲ.Difficult points: Describe the weather and activities with the Present Progressive Tense

ⅥTeaching procedures

Step1. Warming up and revision

1. Daily greetings: How’re you today? How’s it going? How is

the weather? Ask these questions randomly to the Ss to revise what they learned yesterday.

2. Point out the conversation in the large picture in 3b on P33 and ask two Ss to read it to the class. Practice it in pairs, then change some of the words and make their own conversations.

3. If Ss do quite well, show a piece of cartoon of the Snow-white and the seven dwarfs.

Step2. Presentation

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.

Step3. 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.

Step4. Game. Find the differences!

2 Ss in a group. Student A looks at the picture on P84 and Student B looks at the picture on P86. Each picture has the same people in it, but they are doing different things. Take turns talking about what the people doing in the picture. Attention: don’t look at the partner’s picture. And the weather in 2 pictures could be compared too.

weather sunny raining

person P81 P82

Uncle Ed sleeping cooking

Aunt Betty playing soccer watching TV

Nancy playing soccer reading a book

Rick swimming playing computer games

Get Ss to describe the 2 pictures orally.

Step5. Grammar Focus

1. Ask 2 Ss to read the sentences loudly and make interpretations.

2. Some oral exercises about the core materials in Section A.

Step6. Homework

1. Copy the new words 4 times and the Grammar Focus.

2. Write 2 paragraphs about the 2 pictures on P84 and P86.