初中英语人教版七年级下册Its raining !.doc

Unit 7 Its raining!Section A (1a-1c)工作单位：台安县桓洞学校姓名： 杜 超 教学目标：In 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.教学重点：Write the question. What are you doing? on the board. Read the question and ask the class to repeat it.教学难点：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.教学准备：A tape player, PPTStep 1: warm upStep 2: new lessonStudents learn some new words.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 the word 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 words. 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.Step 3: practice1 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.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.Point to 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 i