Unit 9 It’s raining

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Chengdu Experimental School Song dandan

Period: 1st.

Content: Section A.

Properties: tape recorder、pictures

Teaching aims and demands:

1.Master the vocabulary: weather rain, windy, cloudy, sunny, snow, how’s=how is

2.Describe the weather:

-How’s the weather?

-It’s windy/ cloudy/ …

3.Describe what you are doing.

Teaching steps:

Step 1. Organization

1.Organize the students by greeting each other

2.Duty report.

Step 2. Presentation.

1.Play a game “hot potatoes”: Show students some signs of weather, then ask the student who gets the picture will teach others the new words:

weather:

sunny, cloudy, windy, raining, snowing

Students read after the teacher.

Show them some other pictures. Have them match the pictures with the words.

2.Ask one student :

-How are you today?

-I’m fine. Thank you.

-How’s the weather today?

-It’s cloudy/ sunny/ …

Show the students some pictures and talk about the weather.

Teacher VS students

3.Practice the sentence pattern.

Group Ⅰ VS Group Ⅱ 、 Boys VS students

4. T: Whole class. How’s the weather today?

Ss: It’s cloudy.

Pretend to be reading a book, writing or cleaning the blackboard. Then ask the class

“What am I doing?”

Ss: You’re writing/ cleaning the blackboard

T: Whole class. What are you doing?

Ss: We are having English class.

Show them some photos, and talk about these photos

e.g. T: Look at this photo. How’s the weather?

Ss: It’s sunny.

T: What’s this girl doing?

Ss: She’s dancing.

Then practice in chains using Present Continuous Tense.

Step 3. Practice

1.Play a game in pairs.

Give them some word cards.

Student A: act out the word.

Student B: guess what he/ she is doing.

Student B can’t look at the words. Student B should use the sentence: Is he/ she doing…?

Student A only answers “Yes” or “No”.

They only have one minute. The pair with the most right words is the winner.

2.Make your own conversations.

T: Work in pairs to make your own conversation.

Make a phone call to talk about the weather and what you are doing.

I’ll give you some key words.

e.g.① Shanghai/ cloudy/ read a book/ boring

Ask two students to make a conversation.

Give them some other words to make conversations:

② Tokyo/ raining/ watch TV/ interesting

③ New York/ sunny/ do some shopping/ stores/ expensive

④ London/ windy/ play computer games/ exciting

⑤ Beijing/ snowing/ see a talk show/ boring

⑥ Seoul/ cloudy/ watch a thriller/ scary

Have several pairs to act out their own conversation.

Step 4 Summary

1. Teacher summarizes : the new words,phrases and sentence pattern.

2. Ask some student to tell us what they have learned this class.

Step 5 Homework

See today’ s weather forecast and write down“ how’s the weather tomorrow?”

Work in groups. Next time I’ll check your work.