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Unit6 It’s raining!Period One (Section A 1a, 1b, 1c, + Section B 1a, 1b)Ⅰ. Teaching aims1. Knowledge①Words:rain,windy,cloudy,sunny,snow,weather,Moscow,Boston,how’s,bad,terrinle,pretty,cool, cold, humid, warm, hot②Sentence structures: How’s it going?How’s the weather? What’sthe weather like?2. Ability: Talk about the weather and greet each other with a newstructure.3. Cultural awareness: A new way of greetings and asking about theweather is quite a common greeting in western countries.Ⅲ.Difficult points: How’s the weather? It’sraining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/.How’s it going? Great! /Not bad! /Terrible! /Prettygood!ⅥTeaching proceduresStep1. Warming up1. Ask the Ss randomly: What’s 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? :How’s it going? But the new one has more answers.Step2. Presentation1. Show 4 faces on the screen and ask Ss to describe each face using whatever words they can. Help Ss identify each person is feeling.2. Then show 4 words. Say the words and ask Ss to repeat each one. Ask Ss to match each remembered phrase with a face. Encourage them to spell the phrases by How do you spell it?Step3. Presentation1. Let one student ask m e: How’s it going? I may answer like this: Terrible! Because it’s snowing and it’s so cold. Show a picture of snowing day and children are making a snowman and pretend to be very cold. Make Ss guess the words: the weather and snowing. Ask them: How’s the w eather? Get them to answer like: It’s snowing/snowy. Go on with other kinds of weather: sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy.①Beijing—sunny and warm/hot ②Shanghai—cloudy and cool ③Boston—windy and cool ④Moscow—snowing and cold ⑤Toronto—raining and humid. Show an arrow to identify the degree of the 4 adjectives: cold,cool, warm and hot.4. Practice with the structures: How’s the weather? and What’s 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 westerncountries 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 makeup a report about it.Step5. ChantShow an easy chant to reinforce the questions and words about theweather.Step6. Homework1. Copy the new words 4 times each.2. Summarize the usages of how in questions.3. Watch a weather report on TV and take down some notes about theweather forecast for tomorrow, and then write a report about it.Unit 6 It’s raining!Period Two(Section A 2a, 2b, 2c, 4+ GrammarFocus)Ⅰ. Teaching aims1. Knowledge①Words: cook, study②Sentence structures: What are you/ they doing? We/ They are… What is he/she doing? He/ She is … Yes/No questions and short answers.2. Ability: Ask and answer the Present Progressive Tense, and describethe activities people are doing3. Cultural awareness: The inner feelings of the Ss are motivated by understanding and comparing different people’s lives in different areas.ⅡImportant points: the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense Ⅲ.Difficult points: Describe the weather and activities with thePresent Progressive TenseⅥTeaching proceduresStep1. Warming up and revision1. Daily greetings: How’re you today? How’s it going? How is the weather? Ask these questions randomly to the Ss to revise what they learnedyesterday.2. Point out the conversation in the large picture in 3b on P33 and ask two Ss to read it to the class. Practice it in pairs, then change some of the words and make their own conversations.3. If Ss do quite well, show a piece of cartoon of the Snow-white andthe seven dwarfs.Step2. Presentation1. After showing the cartoon, ask Ss: What are they doing? (They are singing and dancing.) Show more pictures with questions: What’s he/she doing? and What’re they doing? to get Ss to pra ctice the tense which is the core grammar of this period. Get Ss to guess out the word cook by the picture. Choosing the right words and pair work are added as thereinforcements.2．Let’s see what Joe’s families are doing. Point to the 4 pictures (The girl in the second picture is talking on the phone with the first speaker.). Ask Ss tell each person is doing in each picture. More attentions should be paid to the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense. Use every hint to finish 2b.3. Play the tape for Ss to have a check. One more time listening to finish 2a. Teach: What does your father do? He is a cook.. Compare cookwith cooker.4. With the whole picture, get some Ss to tell the story of it.Step3. Brainstorming1. Play the tape for another time. Then do a memory test. Ask Ss: What’s Uncle Joe/Jeff/Mary/Aunt Sarah doing? What’re Scott and Lucydoing? Is Jeff watching TV? Etc.2. Guessing game. Guess the activities people are doing.Step4. Game. Find the differences!2 Ss in a group. Student A looks at the picture on P84 and StudentB looks at the picture on P86. Each picture has the same people in it, but they are doing different things. Take turns talking about what the people doing in the picture. Attention: don’t look at the partner’s picture. And the weather in 2 pictures could be compared too.3. Cultural awareness: Learn to love our nature and protect theenvironment. Make a donation if possibleⅡImportant points: Use the words, expressions and sentencestructures correctly.Ⅲ.Difficult points: Describe the weather in 4 seasons and people’sactivitiesⅥTeaching proceduresStep1. RevisionShow a weather map of China and get Ss to ask and answer in pairs about the different kinds of weather in some cities.Step2. Reading1. Ask Ss: How do you know the weather beforehand? Get answers like:From the radio/121/the TV/the mobile phone/the internet.2. 3a. Look at a paragraph, and ask Ss to find out what the show is(CCTV’s Around the World show) and where the reporter is (inAustralia) .Ask them to tell what they know about Australia.3. Ask Ss to work alone. Underline the things that people are doing and circle the words that describe the weather. They may follow the 2 examples have done for them. Check the answers.Step3 ChantLearn a chant with the students to relax.Step4 Make an interviewSs form groups of 4. One of them works for CCTV’s Around the World show. He/She interviews the other 3 Ss what the weather is like in their hometowns and what the people are doing. Then give a report about whathe/she has got.Step5 Make a surveyFind out what activities people will do on certain days. And ask some toreport their results in class.Step6 Homework1.Summarize the key words and expressions in this unit.2.Write a composition .Unit 6 It’s raining!Period Five (Self-check)Ⅰ. Teaching aims1.Knowledge: Revise the words and the sentences in the unit.2. Ability: Learn about different activities in different weather3. Cultural awareness: Learn to love our nature and protect theenvironment. Make a donation if possibleⅡImportant points: Use the words, expressions and sentencestructures correctly.Ⅲ.Difficult points: Use the expressions they learned to describe the weather in 4 seasons and people’s acti vitiesⅥTeaching proceduresStep1 Warming-up1.Greetings.2.Have a chant.Step2 DictationRevise the words and have a dictation for the words in the unit.Step3 Revision1.Show a weather map of China and get Ss to ask and answer in pairsabout the different kinds of weather in some cities.2.Show some pictures to revise “What are you /they doing? We /Theyare……What is he/she doing? He/She is… How is it going?” etc.Step3. Pair workIn groups of 2, finish 3 in Self check by asking and answeringStep4 Task1.In groups of 4. Ask all the Ss further: When is the best timeto your town/city? Ss may answer like: The best time to visit mytown/city is in …because it’s …2.Ask some groups to report and share their results.Step5 ExtensionShow pictures of the nature disasters: sandstorm, typhoon and tsunami(海啸).Tell Ss: If we have such natural disasters, we could not enjoy the lives any longer. But what can we do with this?Collect any possible answers from Ss.Step6 Just for funRead the story to relax.Step7 Reinforcement1.北京天气如何？阳光灿烂又暖和！2.Sarah阿姨是个厨师。