初中英语人教版七年级下册unit 7 Section A 1a -1c.doc

Unit 7 Its rainingPeriod 1 Warming up and ListeningTeaching Aims and Demands1.Knowledge Object; Key Vocabulary: raining, windy, cloudy, sunny, snowing, hows=how is, weather, Moscow, Toronto, BostonTarget Language: Hi! Hows the weather in Beijing? Its sunny 2.Ability Objects: Listening skill. Communicative competence.3.Moral Object: In the West, people like talking about the weather instead of asking, “Have you eaten?” or “Where are you going?” which are impolite to ask such questions in the West.Teaching Key PointsKey Vocabulary Learn to talk about the weather using the target language.Teaching Methods: Listening and talking methods. Pairwork.Teaching Aids: Projection machine. Tape recorder.Teaching Procedures: Greeting Talk about the places and the weather (1a&1b)StepsTeachers activityStudents activityTeaching toolsFamiliar with the places1Wheres your pen pal from?Answer and recall the places.Ppt.2Show some pictures of various placesAsk: Wheres it?Guess the placesIts Ppt.Familiar with the new words3Show the pictures of the weatherSay: Hows the weather? Its sunny. Repeat and learn sunny cloudy windy raining snowingPpt.4Explain the words Remember the new wordsMatching 5Ask students to match each word with one of the cities in the picture. Point out the sample answer. Match and check the answers.Listening6Play the recording the first time. 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.Only listen. Recorder7Play the recording a second time. Say, The first one has been done for you. Beijing is written in the picture of sunny weather. It is sunny in Beijing.Write the name of the city in the picture of its weather.Recorder8Correct the answersCheck the answers Groupwork: Game: Play cards (1c) Listening comprehensions: What are they doing? (2a&2b)StepsTeachers activityStudents activityTeaching toolsListen for the key points1Point to the four pictures. Supply vocabulary words as needed.Tell what each person is doing in each picture. For example, This boy is talking on the phone. This man is playing basketball.2Play the recording the first time.Only listen.Recorder3Play the recording a second time.Listen to the recording and number the pictures 1 through 4 to show what each person is doing.Recorder4Correct the answersCheck the answersListen for some details5Point out the list of names and the list of activities. Several students read each list to the class.6Play the recording and have students fill in the rest of the answers.Say, Now I will play the recording again. Point out the sample answer for number 1.Match each name with an activity Write the letter of an activity in front of each name.Recorder7Correct the answersCheck the answers pairwork (2c)StepsTeachers activityStudents activityTeaching tools1Call 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, watching TV, and playing computer games. Say something about each person2Point out the sample conversation in the speech bubbles and have a pair of students read it to the class.A pair of students read it to the class3Say, Now please work with a partner. Make conversations like this one. Talk about the people in the pictures.As students work in pairs, move around the room monitoring progress and offering assistance, if needed.Act4Ask some pairs to present their conversations to the class.Act summaryWhat did we learn in this class? New words describing the weather and three city names: sunny cloudy windy raining snowing Toronto Boston MoscowStructures:1. Hows the weather?