英语人教版七年级下册Unit 7Its raining!SectionA.docx

Unit 7 Its raining!Period 1 Section A (1a-2c)一Teaching aims:Knowledge:Words: rain,windy,cloudy,sunny,snow,weather.Sentence structures: Hows the weather? = Whats the weather like? Its sunny/ windy / cloudy/raining/snowing.What are you/ they doing? We/ They are What is he/she doing? He/ She is Yes/No questions and short answers.Ability: Ask and answer the Present Progressive Tense, and describe the activities people are doing. Describe the different kinds of weather and different activities in different areasCultural awareness: 1.The inner feelings of the Ss are motivated by understanding and comparing different peoples lives in different areas. 2.Learn to love our nature and protect the environment.3.Make a donation if possible二Important pointsA new way of greetings and the description words about the weather. The correct use of the Present Progressive Tense三Difficult pointsHows the weather? Its raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/.Describe the weather and activities with the Present Progressive Tense 四Teaching MethodsListening and practicing methods, pair work, Task-Based Learning method.五Teaching Steps: Step1. Warming-up and Lead in 1.Greet the Ss . 2. Have a Chant: Sunny, sunny, sunny. I am running. Cloudy, cloudy, cloudy. He is walking. Raining, raining, raining. She is reading. Snowing, snowing, snowing. Lets go skating.3. Revision:T: Do you like rainy days? No, I dont. I like playing outside. Now, some people are playing. Lets see what they are doing. Please look the pictures.What are you/ they doing? We/ They are What is he/she doing? He/ She is Yes/No questions and short answers.Step2. Presentation Show some pictures of the weather.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. Step3. Games1. Guessing game (Hows the weather? Is it .?) (Showing some pictures on the big screen.) Ask Ss Hows the weather? Ss guess and answer the question. 2. Read the words about weather.Step4. Pair work 1. Tell the Ss: I like traveling. And I want to go to some beautiful places. Do you know these places? Teach these city names. 2. Talk about the weather with your friends in these cities . Make a model with a student like this:T: Hi! Hows the weather in Beijing?S1: Its sunny. 3. Ask and answer about the weather in the cities. 4. Make Conversations in pairs:(Talking on the phone)If you are Mike, you want to go to one place to travel , please call your friend Bill to know about the weather there. Step5 Challenge to the host 1. T: Look at the signs below, what do they mean? Let Ss know about the signs of weather.2. Weather ReportStep6. Listening 1. Work on 2a. LetsseewhatJoesfamiliesaredoing.Pointtothe4pictures. 2. AskSstelleachpersonisdoingineachpicture.MoreattentionsshouldbepaidtothecorrectuseofthePresentProgressiveTense. 3. Play the recording for the Ss to listen and number the pictures 1-4. 4.PlaythetapeforSstocheck the answers. 5. Let Ss match the names with the activities in 2b. Play the recording for the Ss to check the answers. Step7.Group work Writng stories:1. Look at the pictures and talk about the people in 2a with partners. 2. Ss work in groups . First, tell stories to others, then write down the story ofUncle Joe family. The beginning is given. This is Uncle Joes family. Its 6:00 pm. Its sunny. Uncle Joe is Step7. Exercises一、用所给单词的适当形式填空。 1. Its a _ day today (sun). 2. The weather is bad now. Its _ (wind).3. Sounds like you _ (have) a good time now. 4. Its _ (cloud) now, my parents are walking. 5. Hows the weather ? It _ (rain) now. 6. Its _ (snow) in Harbin now.二、选择正确的答案.1.Its eight oclock. Jims father _TV. A. is watching B. are watching C. watch D. to watch2. _is the weather there? Its windy. A. What B. How C. Whats D. how3._the weather like today? Cloudy. A. Hows B. What does C What D. Whats 4.Whats the weather like today?_ A. Its rain. B. Its raining. C.