Teaching design
Basic information
Subject English
Content 7B Unit 6 Rain or Shine （Section A 2a - 2e）
Book 2024年人教版 (人民教育出版社)
Analysis of the whole unit
Overall objective of the unit
SS will be able to understand and apply basic vocabulary and sentence structures related to weather. Through dialogue practice, ss can fluently express feelings about different weather conditions and activities and learn how to choose appropriate activities and protective measures under different weather conditions to cultivate life skills. Ss can recognize the pronunciation of ar [a:], er [ :], ir [ ], or [ :] [ :], ur [ :], as well as the vocabulary containing these phoneme to establish phoneme awareness. Ss will know the rules of stressed words in the sentence. Ss will master the basic usage of the present continuous tense, able to not only correctly identify and describe ongoing weather changes and activities, but also use the present continuous tense to describe activities under different weather condition. Ss can understand and describe different natural landscapes and cultural activities in China and around the world, especially Mount Huangshan. Through writing exercises such as speaking with pictures and writing travelogues, ss will cultivate imagination and creative expression skills. By sharing and discussing, ss can learn to appreciate others' experiences to cultivate critical thinking. Through group collaboration, ss can collect and organize weather information about a specific city on a certain day, describe the activities of the city and its residents with vocabulary and sentence patterns they have learnt to describe in detail what happened at each location and time period.
Analysis of the teaching material
【What】 The conversation is about phone communication between two friends called Bill and Anna. In the conversation, Anna shared her vacation experience in Sanya, especially the sunny beach, sunbathing, and playing beach volleyball with her brother John. She also mentioned the hot and sunny weather conditions in the area (about 28 ℃). Bill described the cold and snowy weather in Stockholm (-3 ℃) and their activity of building snowmen outside. Both of them asked about the activities of each other's family members and expressed their willingness to visit each other in the future. 【Why】 The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to learn and master vocabulary and expressions related to travel, weather conditions, daily activities, invitations, and responses in a real context through a phone conversation that is close to their interests and travel experiences. At the same time, through the dialogue content, students will be guided to understand the care and sharing among friends, enhance their social awareness and emotional communication skills. In addition, by comparing the different weather and activities in the two places, it can also enhance students' cross-cultural awareness and geographical knowledge, as well as their understanding and respect for different lifestyles. 【How】 Many commonly used vocabulary and phrases in travel and weather descriptions were used in the conversation, such as "holiday", "beach", "sunbathing", "beach volleyball", "hot and sunny", "cold and snowy", etc, which helps students learn to apply these expressions in practical communication. In the dialogue, declarative sentences, interrogative sentences, and exclamatory sentences are used. Declarative sentences are used to share personal experiences and feelings. Interrogative sentences are used to ask about the other person's situation, and while exclamatory sentences are used to express surprise or admiration. These various language structures makes the dialogue more vivid and interesting, helping students understand and master the usage of different sentence structures in communication. The dialogue content is coherent, which starts with Bill's greeting, then is kept by sharing weather and each other 's ongoing activities, finally ends with an invitation. The conversation contains rich information, such as travel experiences, weather conditions, daily activities, and social invitations. These pieces of information not only help students understand the content of the conversation, but also stimulate their thinking and discussion, cultivate their thinking and expression abilities, especially understanding and respect from a cross-cultural perspective.
Teaching objectives of this lesson
SS can get the travel activity and weather condition in a conversation, and summarize the activities that people may engage in under different weather conditions during the trip. （学习理解） Ss are able to listen and mark the stress in the sentences and role play the conversation before class accurately, smoothly and actively.（应用实践） Ss will create a phone conversation including travel experiences, weather comparisons, and future plans to enhance understanding of weather in different places and cultivate cross-cultural communication skills. （迁移创新）
Teaching key points and difficulties
To master vocabulary and sentence structures related to weather and activities; Be able to understand and communicate about weather and activities. Correctly use the present continuous tense to describe ongoing activities and engage in real-life communication.
Teaching Methods
Task-based teaching method: Students will complete various tasks to practice language municative teaching method: Encourage students to communicate with each other to improve their speaking ability. Audio-visual teaching method: Use pictures, audio and video materials to help students understand and remember.
Teaching Aids
Multimedia equipment, PPT, blackboard, chalk
Teaching procedures
Teacher objectives Learning activities Assessment
SS can get the travel activity and weather condition in a conversation, and summarize the activities that people may engage in under different weather conditions during the trip. （学习理解） Watch a short video to lead into the topic。 Complete the conversations according to the the picture to review the expressions about weather and learn more activities. 3. List the activities people usually do in different weather. And then share ss’ favorite activity and the reasons. Check ss’ knowledge about sentence stress by observing how well they sing with the music. Evaluate ss’ ability to read pictures and transfer ability by observing weather students can accurately and quickly complete conversations based on the content of the pictures, brainstorm various suitable activities under different weather conditions. Check whether students can engage in brief sharing and discussion
Teaching purpose: Lead into the topic by watch a short video to stimulate students' interest in participation and activate their expressions about the weather, as well as establish connections between new and old knowledge. Guide students to sense different types of weather by filling in the dialogues based on pictures, and input more expressions about weather and activities. Brainstorming guides students to explore different types of weather and related activities, providing rich materials for output, deepening students' understanding of the relationship between weather and human activities, while cultivating their expression ability and critical thinking. （感知与注意、获取与梳理、概括与整合）
Ss are able to listen and mark the stress in the sentences and role play the conversation before class accurately, smoothly and actively.（应用实践） 1. Look at the pictures and guess: What’s the weather like in these two pictures What are they doing How may they feel What may they talk about Listening Tips: ①Guess the main idea, read the conversations and circle the key words before listening. Listen to the conversation between Bill and Anna for the first time and tick the information they are talking about. Listen again and fill in the blanks. Listening Tips: ②Write down the first two letters of the words while listening. Read the conversations and finish the table. Check the answers in complete sentence. Answer questions: How does Anna feel about her holiday What does Bill think of the weather in Sanva What does Anna think of the weather in Stockholm Why does Bill call Anna Conversation Tips: ①Start the conversation with feelings about the holiday. ②Use adjectives to give proper responses. ③Talk about place, temperature, weather and activity. ④Use adjectives to give proper responses. Circle these two cities on the map. Think why the weather is differet. Listen for the thirst time and pay attention to the stress. Speaking Tips: ①Stress shows something important. Usually content words must be stressed while function words don’t need to be stresses. Role play the conversations. Teacher evaluation by observing whether students can use accurate words to describe pictures and obtain information from them reasonably. Teacher evaluation or self-evaluation by observing whether students can make reasonable guesses and circle key words before listening as well as write down the first few letters of words for quick note taking while listening; Teacher evaluation by observing whether students can concentrated, respond quickly while listening and correct grammar errors when checking their answers. Teacher evaluation by observing whether students can quickly locate information and accurately fill in forms after reading the conversations. Teacher evaluation by observing whether students can read the article rhythmically and answer deep level questions to check their analytical and summarizing abilities. Self evaluation or teacher evaluation by observing whether students are able to notice the rhythm in the sentence while listening to the conversation, and try to understand the meaning and emphasis of these rhythms in the sentence. At the same time, the teacher check whether students can actively follow and imitate the pronunciation and intonation in the conversation, including the correct pronunciation and intonation changes of stressed words. Self evaluation, peer evaluation, and teacher evaluation by observing whether students can role play in group discussions and presentations politely and appropriately and correctly.
Teaching purpose: Students can sense different vacation scenes in different seasons to stimulate their interest in learning and providing background information for subsequent learning. By listening to the conversation twice and asking students to complete sentences, their listening skills will be improved. At the same time, this also exercises students' memory and language organization skills, ensuring that they can accurately get key information in conversations to cultivate students' observation and information extraction abilities. The process of completing the form also helps students deepen their understanding of vacation destinations, temperatures, weather, and activities. By paying attention to the rhythm of sentences in conversations, students can appreciate the beauty of English pronunciation and intonation, and improve the accuracy and fluency of pronunciation. Following and imitating can help cultivate students' language sense, making their English speaking more authentic and natural. Role playing and group collaboration not only increase the fun of learning, but also promote interaction and communication among students. Through role-playing, students can personally experience the situation in the conversation, deepen their understanding and memory of the learned content. At the same time, the sharing and presentation in front of the class exercise students' expression ability and confidence, making them dare to communicate in English in public places. In summary, the design intention of these teaching activities is to comprehensively improve students' English listening and speaking abilities, information processing abilities, and language application abilities through diverse learning methods and interactive activities, while stimulating their interest and enthusiasm for learning. （描述与阐释、内化与应用、分析与推断）
Ss will create a phone conversation including travel experiences, weather comparisons, and future plans to enhance understanding of weather in different places and cultivate cross-cultural communication skills. （迁移创新） 1. Analyze the conversation. How does the conversation start and end How can we keep the conversations What tense is the conversation Can you find its structure and some signal words Conversation Tips: ①Start the conversation with feelings about the holiday. ②Use modal particles and adjectives to give proper responses. ③End the conversation with invitation. ④Talk about others’ activity to make it longer. Choose a place for vacation and call your friend who is on vacation, too. Try to make a new conversation with the expressions offered. Conversation Tips: ①Talk about others’ activity to make it longer. ②Use different sentence patterns. Check the conversations according to the assessment. Emotional education Changeable weather are just like our life, which is full of ups and downs. No matter how hard it is, we can still do something meaningful. So be brave and active. The rainbow is on the way. The more you connect with your old friend, the stronger your friendship are. The teacher check students’ ability by observing whether students can accurately create logical dialogue based on real situations. The teacher check students’ ability by observing whether students can appropriately choose and describe two activities in different weather conditions during the conversation, whether students can effectively use question and answer skills in conversations to keep it fluent and interactive. The teacher observe students' confidence and expression ability when presenting and sharing in front of the class and evaluate whether students can actively accept others' opinions and suggestions, and then learn to reflect and improve after presenting and sharing.
Teaching purpose: Guide students to engage in activities beyond the context and connect with real-life situations, with the language they have learned to do things. Integrate and apply relevant language expressions based on new contexts to apply what they have learned to new communication tasks. Cultivate students' ability to use their language and cultural knowledge to solve practical problems in real situations, and promote transfer innovation. （想象与创造、批判与评价）
Homework： Level A（基础）: Read the conversations twice after the tape. Level B（提升）: Write down your own conversation and then polish it. Level C（拓展）: Record your conversation or make a vlog to act it out.
Design optional and mandatory homework based on students' different levels. Be able to review learned vocabulary and target sentence structures, then apply them to real-life situations. Teachers can also provide feedback on students' language knowledge mastery and application through homework evaluation.(共16张PPT)
Unit 6 Rain or Shine
Section A 2c-2e
Review
How do we describe weather
How do we describe temperature
①It is+adj
② It is +v-ing
③ The...is v-ing
①The temperature is about/around...
② It is about/around
③ It is between...and ...
Look and say.
A: __________________like
B: It’s ______and ______.
A: What is the temperature
B: It’s____℃
A: _____________________
B: ______ sunbathing.
What’s the weather
sunny
What is she doing
35
degrees
[di'ɡri:z]
hot
A: __________________
B: It’s ______and ______.
A: ______________________
B: It’s____℃
A: ______________________
B: ________ building a snowman.
How is the weather
snowy
What are they doing
They are
-20
cold
What is the temperature
minus
['ma n s]
She is
Look and say.
A: ... B: ...
A: ... B: ...
A: ... B: ....
Presentation
Listen and circle
Tips:
Find out the key words and predict the answers.
She is staying at home.
Which part of Australia do you think Grandpa is living in
Maybe he is in the north.
(according to the weather report)
Presentation
Listen and fill
Lucy: Hey, Grandpa. How are you How’s the weather in Australia
Grandpa: Hi, Lucy. It’s ___________________. Oh! And now there’s
__________!
Lucy: Oh no, don’t __________!
Grandpa: Don’t worry, I’m _________! What’s the weather ______ back
home What are you doing now
Lucy: I’m ________________ in the garden. It’s ________ and _______ here!
Grandpa: ________ you! Well, enjoy your day!
Lucy: You too!
Grandpa: I’m always happy, ____________!
Listen again and fill the blanks.
raining cats and dogs
lightning
go outside
watering flowers
staying in
sunny
warm
Lucky
rain or shine
like
=raining hard/heavily
=How is the weather
=How lucky you are!
=whatever the weather
Prediction.
●What’s the weather like in these two pictures
●What are they doing
●How may they feel
●What may they talk about
Bill
Anna
Listen and fill in the blanks.
Bill: Hey, Anna. How's your holiday going
Anna: It's wonderful! I'm at a beach in Sanya!
Bill: Wow, lucky you! That sounds amazing. What's the weather like there
Anna: It's _______________ . It' s about 28℃.
Bill: That's nice! What are you doing at the beach
Anna: I'm sunbathing at the moment! My brother Johh's here too.
Bit: Oh, what's he doing
Anna: He's ________________________ right now. What about you How's the weather in Stockholm
Bill: Well, it's _______________. It's about -3℃.
Anna: Oh, that's really cold! What's your family doing
Bill: Well, we usually stay in when it snows, but now we're _____________________
outside. Hey, come and visit us some day!
Anna: OK. Once the weather turns warm!
hot and sunny
building a snowman
cold and snowy
playing beach volleyball
Listening Tips:
①Guess, read and circle before listening.
②Write down the first two letters .
Read and complete the table.
Information Anna’s family Bill’s family
Place _______________ Stockholm
Temperature _______________℃ -3℃
Weather hot and ___________ cold and __________
Activity sunbathing building a ___________
playing _______________ /
sunny
28
Sanya
beach volleyball
snowman
snowy
the capital of Sweden（瑞典）
Conversation Tips:
①Talk about place, temperature, weather and activities.
Read and answer.
Bill: Hey, Anna. How's your holiday going
Anna: It's wonderful! I'm at a beach in Sanya!
Bill: Wow, lucky you! That sounds amazing. What's the weather like there
Anna: It's hot and sunny. It' s about 28℃.
Bill: That's nice! What are you doing at the beach
Anna: I'm sunbathing at the moment! My brother Johh's here too.
Bit: Oh, what's he doing
Anna: He's playing beach volleyball right now. What about you How's the weather in Stockholm
Bill: Well, it's cold and snowy. It's about -3℃.
Anna: Oh, that's really cold! What's your family doing
Bill: Well, we usually stay in when it snows, but now we're building a snowman outside.
Hey, come and visit us some day!
Anna: OK. Once the weather turns warm!
■How does Anna feel about her holiday
■What does Bill think of the weather in Sanya
■What does Anna think of the weather in Stockholm
■Why does Bill call Anna
Conversation Tips:
①Start with feelings. End with an invitation.
②Use adjectives to give responses.
Let’s analyze.
Bill: Hey, Anna. How's your holiday going
Anna: It's wonderful! I'm at a beach in Sanva!
Bill: Wow, lucky you! That sounds amazing. What's the weather like there
Anna: It's hot and sunny. It' s about 28℃.
Bill: That's nice! What are you doing at the beach
Anna: I'm sunbathing at the moment! My brother Johh's here too.
Bit: Oh, what's he doing
Anna: He's playing beach volleyball right now. What about you How's the weather in Stockholm
Bill: Well, it's cold and snowy. It's about -3℃.
Anna: Oh, that's really cold! What's your family doing
Bill: Well, we usually stay in when it snows, but now we're building a snowman outside.
Hey, come and visit us some day!
Anna: OK. Once the weather turns warm!
Conversation Tips:
③Use modal particles to give proper responses.
④Use “be + doing”.
■How can we keep the conversations
■What tense is the conversation
1. A: Look,it _________ (snow)!
B: That's amazing! It______________ (not snow) here in winter usually.
2. A: In my hometown, the sun _________ (rise) at around 6 a.m. in summers.
B: Really Here, the sun _________ (rise), but it's already 7:30.
3. A: It's so warm. but she _________ (wear) a sweater!
B: Well, it's her favourite sweater, after all. She always _________ (wear) it.
4. A: Look at the kites! They _________ (fly) so high.
B: It's windy in spring here. People often _________ (fly) kites in this season.
5. A: Do you have an umbrella It _____________ (rain) outside.
B: That's the weather in London! It _________ (rain) quite often.Here you go.
Complete the conversations with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
is snowing
doesn’t snow
rises
is rising
is wearing
wears
are flying
fly
is raining/ rainy
rains
Let’s practice
Here you go
A. 给你 B. 干得好
It is 2 January. It is freezing. The temperature _________ (be) -20°C! Many people __________ (visit) this special place at the moment. Here they can see lots of special ice works of art like large and colourful buildings.Some of the tourists __________ (be) from South China. They __________ (enjoy) the ice festival very much.Look! What __________ they __________ (do) Some of them __________ (take) photos, and some __________ (skate). Do you know the name of this special place
Alice
There is something wrong with Alice’s phone. Help her complete the Moment.
is
are visiting
are
enjoy
are
doing
are taking
are skating
work
A. v. 工作 B. n. 作品
Harbin Ice and Snow World
Make your own conversations.
A: Hey, .... How's your holiday going
B: It's ...! I'm at/in ..!
A: .... What's the weather like there
B: It's ....
A: ... What are you doing at/ in...
B: I'm ...! What about you How's the weather in ...
A: ...it's ...
B: ...What....doing
A: .......Hey, come and visit us some day!
B: OK. Once the weather turns warm!
LEVEL A
LEVEL B
Conversation Tips:
⑤Talk about others’ activity to make it longer.
⑥Use different sentence patterns.
A: Hey, .... How's your holiday going
B: It's ...! I'm at/in ..!
A: .... What's the weather like there
B: It's ....
A: ... What are you doing at/ in...
B: I'm ...!
A: .......Hey, come and visit us some day!
B: OK. Once the weather turns warm!
Is it very cold/ ... in... Are you outside/ ...at the moment
Are you having dinner/ ...now Hope you will have a great time.
hey / wow / oh / well wonderful/ lucky you/ nice/ fantastic......
Homework.
Level A: Imitate the conversation and try to role play it.
Level B: Make your own conversation and then act it out without the book.
