英语人教版七年级下册《Unit 6 Its raining》教案.doc

Unit 6 Its raining教案Language goalsIn this unit students learn to talk about the weather and talk about what people are doing.New languageWhat are you doing? Im watching TVWhats he doing? Hes playing basketball.Whats she doing? Shes cooking.What are they doing? Theyre studying.Hows the weather? Its raining.Section AWrite the question. What are you doing? on the board.Read the question and ask the class to repeat it. Then act out an activity students are already familiar with, point to the question and have students repeat it. Answer the question using the target language.For example, you might pretend to be reading a book,playing soccer, playing the guitar or writing your name.When the class asks, What are you doing?, you answer,Im reading a book, and so forth.1 a This activity introduces the key vocabulary.Focus attention on the cities in the picture. Ask, What s the weather like here? If they cant answer, supply theword and ask the class to repeat it. Say a sentence or two about each kind of weather. For example, Its raining.Is it raining here today?Point out the numbered list of words. Say each one and ask students to repeat the words again.Then ask students to match each word with one of the cities in the picture. Say, Write the letter of each city next to one of the ivords. Point out the sample answer.Check the answers.1 b This activity gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.Say, You will hear four different conversations. Each one is about the weather in a different city. Point to each city in the picture as it comes up on the tape.Play the recording a second time. Ask students to write the name of the city in the picture of its weather. Say, The first one has been done for you. Beijing is written in the picture of sunny weather. It is sunny in Beijing.Correct the answers.1 c This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.Point out the example conversation. Ask two students to read the dialogue to the class.Say, Now work with a partner. Make your own conversations about the weather in these five places.As the pairs talk, move around the room monitoring their work. Offer language or pronunciation support as needed.Ask several pairs to present their conversations to the class.2a This activity gives students practice in understanding the target language in spoken conversation.Point to the four pictures. Ask students to tell what each person is doing in each picture. For example, This boy is talking on the phone. This man is playing basketball. Supply vocabulary words as needed.Play the recording the first time. Students only listen.Play the recording a second time. This time, ask students to listen to the recording and number the pictures 1 through 4 to show what each person is doing.Correct the answers.2b This activity provides listening practice using the target language.Point out the list of names and the list of activities.Ask a different student to read each list to the class.Say, Now I will play the recording again. This time,please match each name with an activity. Write the letter of an activity in front of each name. Point out the sample answer for number 1.Play the recording and have students fill in the rest of the answers. ,Correct the answers.2c This activity provides guided oral practice using the target language.Call attention to the four people in the picture in activity 2a. Ask students to say something about each person. Guide students to use the words and phrases playing basketball, cooking, ivatching TV, and playing computer games.Point out the sample conversation in the speech bubbles and have a pair of students read it to the class.Say, Now please work with a partner. Make conversations like this one. Talk about the people in the I pictures. As students work in pairs, move around the room monitoring progress and offering assistance, if needed.Ask some pairs to present their conversations to the class.3a This activity introduces more key vocabulary.Call attention to the faces. Ask students to point to and describe each face using whatever vocabulary they can.Help students to identify how each person is feeling. For example, ask a student. Look at this face. Is it happy? Is it unhappy?Then point to the four words. Say the words and ask students to repeat each one. Use your tone of voice and facial expressions to reinforce the meaning of each. Add your own simple explanations of what each one means.For example: Not bad. This means something is not very good, but its also not very bad. Its in the middle.After that, ask students to match each numbered phrase with a face by writing the letter of each face in the blank in front of the correct phrase.As students work, move around the room answeringquestions as needed.Check the answers.3b This activity provides oral practice using the target language.Point out the conversation in the large picture and ask two students to read it to the class. Ask students to explain what Hows it going? means. (It is similar to How are you? or How is everything?)Ask students to practice the conversation in pairs.Move around the room monitoring their progress.Then call attention to the example in the small speech bubbles. Have two students read it to the class.Say, Now well change some of the words and make our own conversations. We can use our own names. We can give true answers or we can make up answers.Ask pairs of students to make up their own conversations. Move around the room offering language support as needed.Ask some pairs to present their con