Unit 7 It's raining!
New words:cloudy,sunny,raing,snowy,windy,weather
sentence pattern:I fow's the weather
It's cloudy/sunny/rainy/snowy/windy
It's raining/snowing
Teaching Aims:How to describe the weather
Difficult points:The difference betwen snowing/snowy,raing/raining
Teaching steps:
Step I Lead-in
①Draw a picture of the sun and ask "What's this "Then write the phonetics of it,and let one student read it and the others follow him.And then draw ,and let them read.
②Review the new words:sun,cloud,wind,rain,snow.
(1)A boy—the others; boys—girls; low sound—higher sound.
(2)Draw the pictures of the weather using the fingers.
(3)One student says Chinese and the other says English.
(4)Consolidate the words like this:s_n,r_ _n,sn_ _,cl_ _d,w _ nd.
(5)show some objects to consolidate the new words; scarf,a thick hat,a pair of sunglasses,an unbrella.
Step 2 New words
①lead in
Please tell me which is the most important to us among these things.S:It's the sun.T:Yes,because if there is no sun,we'll have nothing to eat,and we won't be healthy.Yes or No And write healthy,and then compare healthy—health,and write sunny,cloudy,windy,rating,snowy and let them guess the meaning of them,and let them pay attention to "Sunny".
①show them objects.
②Draw some pictures with fingers.
③Draw some pictures on the blackboard:a kite , a snowman, an umbrella.
④ play a game:guess the word.
Five students stand in front of the classroom,show them a word,like “sunny”,let one read a letter.First from "y" to "s" ,and let them guess.Then show them"rainy",and make the five mix the order,like"A—I—R—N—Y" ,and let them guess.Finally,let the five say the word"snowy"at the same time.
step 3 Sentence pattern
①Lead in
If we use one word to conclude all the things,what can it be T:Weather,and them read it.
②____is the weather
Please tell me how we say it in Chinese. Yes,it will be "how".
③How is the weather
It is sunny I cloudy/snowy/rainy/windy.
It means the weather.
Show them two things:the umbrella and the hat.We can also say:
It's raining /snowing.
And ask them the meaning of them.
④Pairwork—How's the weather!
Step 4 1a
①First read the words.
②Describe the weather of differente places.
③Listen and write down the city names.
④Read after the tape and deal with two points"down" and "as usual".
⑤Pairwork about the pictures.
Step 5.The map of China.
①Do you want to know the weather of the places in china
②Pairwork about the weather in the map.
③Ask one to report the whole weather.
Step 6.Write about the weather (Group work)
①Let's work in groups to write down something about the weather.The more wentences,the better.For example; It's windy today.I am in the park.I'm flying a kite.It's made of paper and bamboo.It's beautiful.
②Ask some students to report it.
Step 7:Summary
Today,we learnt something about the weather.
Please read it How's the weather
It's rainy/sunny/cloudy/windy/snowy.
It's snowing/raining.