Unit7SectionA.doc

Go for it！The Second Term, Grade SevenUnit 7 Its raining!Section A Period 1Shendu Middle School Wang XuehuaApril 23, 2013Teaching Aims1.Knowledge and Ability Goals(1)Key vocabulary: weather rain windy cloudy sunny snow cook(2)Key structures: Hows the weather in Beijing? Its sunny.Whats Uncle Joe doing? Hes playing basketball. What are they doing? Theyre making soup. (3)Enable the students to talk about the weather and the activities that people are doing.2.Teaching Methods(1)Pair work.(2)Communicative competence.(3)Cooperating method.3.Moral ObjectPay more attention to the worlds weather and study hard.Teaching Key Points and Teaching Difficult Points1. Key vocabulary and structures 2. Listening and talking3.How to describe the weather and the activities that people are doing.Teaching Aids A multi-media, PPT; A tape recorderTeaching Procedures.Greetings and Lead in 1Ask and show the topic and language goals .2.Say :Do you often watch the weather report on TV？We all know in different places there is different weather. And there is different weather in different seasons. This class well learn something about the weather and the activities the people are doing . Presentation 1. (Show some pictures of the weather on the screen) Let Ss look at the pictures and ask them how the weather is. Ss learn the new words and expressions with the help of the pictures. 2. Look at the pictures in 1a. Ask the Ss to match the words with pictures. 3. Check the answers. Then read the new words on the right. Listening1.Look at the city names in the box in 1b. Ss read the cities after the teacher. 2. Play the recording .Ask Ss to write the name of the city in the picture of its weather. Then check the answers.3.Play the recording again and ask students to match the people with the cities and weather on the screen. They can write the names of the people in the correct pictures.4. Check the answers. Talking1. Tell the Ss: If you are in one of the places in the picture above. Talk about the weather with your friends in another city on the phone. 2. Make a model with a student like this:T: Hi! Hows the weather in Beijing?S1: Its sunny. 3. Ss work in pairs. Ask and answer about the weather in the cities. . Listening 1AskSs totelleachpersonisdoingineachpicture. 2. Play the recording for Ss to listen and number the pictures 1-4.Check the answers. 4. Play the recording for the Ss to listen and match the names with the activities in 2b.Check the answers. Talking1. Look at the pictures and talk about the people in 2a with a partner. 2. Ask a student the questions as a model:T: Whats Uncle Joe doing? S1: Hes playing basketball.3. Ss work in pairs. Ask and answer about the pictures. . Practice 1. Work on 3b. Yuan Yuan from CCTV is interviewing people in five different places. Fill in the chart below. 2. Discuss the pictures and talk about the weather and what the people are doing.3. Ss ask and answer about the pictures. Then fill in the blanks.4. Check the answers with the class 5.Ask students to have a report according to the information in the chart