Unit 2 What’s the weather like

Unit?2?What’s?the?weather?like?
Step 1 Lead in:
1. Review the text of Unit 1.
2. Show some pictures, ask the students to look at the pictures, then talk something about the pictures.
3. Introduce the new words.
Step 2 Vocabulary study:
1. Show some pictures by PPT.
2. Ask and answer:
What’s the weather like today?
3. Learn the new words.
4. Read the new words.
Step 3 Listen and repeat.
1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 1 silently.
2. Play the recording and ask the students to listen and read the words.
①?spring? ②??summer? ③autumn?? ④?winter
⑤?warm?? ⑥?hot?? ⑦?cool?? ⑧?cold
Step 4 Listen and match.
1. Ask the students to look at the pictures in Activity 2.
2. Read the words in Activity 2 silently.
? 1. It’s?cool?in?autumn.? 2.?It’s?hot?in?summer.??
3. It’s?cold?in?winter??? 4. It’s?warm?in?spring.
3. Look through the words in Activity1.
①?spring? ②??summer? ③autumn?? ④?winter
⑤?warm?? ⑥?hot?? ⑦?cool?? ⑧?cold
4. Play the recording and ask the students to listen and read the words.
5. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
Step 5 Listen and point.
1. Ask the students to look at the pictures in Activity 3.
2. Ask and answer like this:
1) —What’s?the?weather?like?in?spring?
—It’s?warm.
2) —What’s?the?weather?like?in?winter?
—It’s?cold.
3) —What’s?the?weather?like?in?autumn?
—It’s?cool.
4)—What’s?the?weather?like?in?summer?
—It’s?hot.?
3. Listen?again?and?say.
4. Work in pairs.
Step 6 Write.
1. Ask the students to read the words in Activity 6.
2. Fill in the blanks in Activity 5.
1.—What’s?the?____________?like?in?London?in?autumn?
—It’s?cool.
2.—What’s?the?weather?_____________?in?New?York?in?__________?
—It’s?cold.
3.—_____________________?in?Hong?Kong?in?summer?
—It’s?hot.
4.—_____________________?in?Beijing?in?spring?
—__________________
3. Call back the answer from the whole class and check the answer.
Keys: 1. weather 2. like, winter 3. What’s the weather like
4. What’s the weather like, It’s warm
4. Now?listen?and?check.
Step 7 Work in pairs.
1. Show a map of China. Talk about the weather.
2. Ask and answer like this.
—What’s?the?weather?like?in?Harbin?in?winter??
—It’s?cold.
3. Work in pairs.