Lesson 37: Seasons and Weather
ⅠTeaching Content:
Seasons and Weather
Ⅱ Learning Aims:
1. Grasp the sentence structures of asking week and weather.
2. Grasp how to ask the weather of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Ⅲ Teaching Materials:
PPT
Ⅳ Teaching keys and Difficulties:
1. Talking about the weather.
2. Encourage the students to communicate with other.
3. Lead the students to introduce their favourite seasons.
Ⅴ Teaching Procedure:
1. Greeting
Teacher: Good morning, boys and girls.
Students: Good morning, Ellen.
2. Lead-in
a. Ask and Answer
What day is it today
How is the weather today
What season do you like
(Ask two or three students to answer)
b. Guessing Game (Show four pictures about different seasons)
What can you see in the picture
What season is it
(Finish the task in class in oral)
3. Presentation
A. Listening to the tape of Part 1, and answer the following questions.
1. What day is it today It’s Monday today.
2. How is the weather It’s snowing. / It’s snowy.
3. What season does Wang Mei like She likes winter.
B. Read Part 1 and write true (T) and false (F)
1. Wang Mei likes winter. ( )
2. Li Ming likes snowy days. ( )
3. Yang Hao likes cool weather. ( )
4. Li Lin doesn’t like to go swimming. ( )
C. Read and act it out!
Read part 1 in pairs and act it out in class.
(Ask two groups to have a role play in front of the class)
D. Speak Together! (Show Part 2)
What can we do in different seasons
(Show a table and instruct the students to fill in the table with their ideas)
E. It’s show time
Which season do you like best
I like …
It’s …
I can …
(Describe the weather in their favourite seasons)
4. Practice
Fill in the blanks.
a) It’s too cold in ____.
b) In spring it is windy and ____.
c) I like to go swimming in _____.
d) _______ comes after Monday.
e) The weather in autumn is ______.
5. Summary
There are 4 seasons in a year. In different seasons, we can do different things and wear different clothes.
Ⅵ Blackboard Design:
Lesson 37: Seasons and Weather
Words & Phrases
Monday “go doing”
Tuesday go swimming, go skating, go skiing
Wednesday
Thursday
rainy adj.
snowy adj.
outside adv. & prep. play outside