初中英語人教版七年級下冊Unit 7 Its raining.docx

Unit 7 Its raining! Period one 教學目標：Talk about the weather and greet each other with a new structure. A new way of greetings and asking about the weather is quite a common greeting western countries. Key points：1.Words:rain,windy,cloudy,sunny,snow,weather,Moscow,Boston,hows,bad,terrinle,pretty, cool, cold, humid, warm, hot2. Sentence structures: Hows it going? Hows the weather? Whats the weather like？Difficult points: A new way of greetings and the description words about the weather. Hows the weather? Its raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/. 教具準備：準備世界地圖,表格及天氣預報錄音帶。教學過程：Step1. Warming up1. Ask the Ss randomly: Whats the date today? What day is it today? How are you?2. Give a new expression which has the same meaning as How are you? : Hows it going? But the new one has more answers.Step2. Presentation.1. Show some pictures on the screen and ask Ss to describe their feeling: Cold. hotand so on .guess the weather.2. Then show 4 words. Say the words and ask Ss to repeat each one. Ask Ss to match each remembered phrase with a picture. Encourage them to spell the phrases by How do you spell it?3. Practice with the new structure by the whole class: Choose one to the front and the others guess the description words through his/her facial expressions.Step3. Presentation1. Let one student ask me: Hows it going? I may answer like this: great! Because its sunny. Show a picture of sunny day and children are swimming.Make Ss guess the words: the weather and sunny. Ask them: Hows the weather? Get them to answer like: Its sunny. Go on with other kinds of weather: snowy, rainy, cloudy, windy.2. Point out the numbered list of description words. Say each one and ask Ss to repeat the words again. Then ask Ss to match each word with one of cities in the picture. Check the answers.3. Play the tape and get Ss to write the city names in the boxes. Check the answers. Look at the 5 pictures in 1a. Encourage Ss to use the description words to describe the weather: Beijingsunny and warm/hot Shanghaicloudy and cool Bostonwindy and cool Moscowsnowing and cold Torontoraining and humid. Show an arrow to identify the degree of the 4 adjectives: cold, cool, warm and hot.4. Practice with the structures: Hows the weather? and Whats the weather like? with the 5 pictures The exact weather on that day should not be missed. Note: Talking about the weather is quite common in western countries as a daily greeting.Step4. Weather reportShow a weather map of China. Get Ss to make a weather report as a CCTV anchor. They may begin with asking the weather in each city, then make up a report about it.Step5. ChantShow an easy chant to reinforce the questions and words about the weather.Step6. Homework1. Summarize the usages of how in questions.2. Watch a weather report on TV and take down some notes about the w