Unit 6 Its raining人教版七年级英语教案

Unit 6 Its raining!
Topic: The weather
Functions:Describe the weather
Describe what you are doing
Structures:Present progressive tense
How questions
Yes / No questions and short answers
Target language:How’s the weather?
It’s raining.
How’s it going?
It’s great.
Is Aunt Sarah there?
Yes, she is.
What’s she doing?
She’s cooking.
Teaching Steps
Period 1
Good morning everyone! Last week, we finished Unit 5. Today we are going to learn a new unit—Unit 6.
Step 1: Lead in
Ask and answer
a. Can you tell me what the title of Unit 6 is? Yes, It’s It’s raining! What do you think the unit is about?
b. Yes. In this unit we are going to describe the weather and what people are doing.
Step 2: Section A 1a
First, please open your books on Page 31 and look at activity 1a.
1. Look and find
Let’s look at activity 1a and find what the words mean.
2. Match
You know what the words mean. They are the words to describe the weather. Please match the words with the pictures.
3. Check the answers
Have you finished? Let’s check the answers one by one.
Answers: 1. a 2. e 3. d 4. b 5. c
4. Read
a. Please read the words after me. Raining …
b. Let’s read them together.
c. Would you please read them one by one?
Step 3: Section A 1b
1. Listen and write
a. Listen to the tape for the first time.
b. Let’s write the city names in the boxes in the pictures.
2. Check the answers
Let’s check the answers.
Answers: a. Toronto b. Beijing c. Moscow d. Shanghai e. Boston
3. Read
a. I would like you to read the conversations together.
b. Would you please read them by yourselves three times?
c. This time I would like you to read their twice with your partner.
d. Who would like to read in class?
Step 4: Section A 1c
Pairwork
1. Read
Would you please read the conversation in 1c with your partner?
a. Imagine you are in one of the places in the pictures above. Would you please ask and answer the weather there?
b. Who would like to have a try in class?
Step 5: Section A 2a
1. Listen
Now class, let’s move to activity 2a now. Please listen to the tape for the first time.
2. Number
Please number the pictures from 1 to 4 when you listen to it for the second time.
3. Check the answers
Have you finished? Please check your answers with your partner and see whether your answers are the same. Let’s check them together.
Answers: 2, 3, 4, 1
Step 6: Section A 2b
1. Listen and match
a. Listen to the conversation for the first time.
b. Please match the names with the activities.
2. Check the answers
Have you finished? Let’s check them.
Answers: 1. c 2. a 3. d 4. b
3. Read
a. Let’s read the conversation together.
b. I would like you to read it by yourselves.
c. Who would like to have a try to read it in class?
Step 7: Section A 2c
1. Read
Would you please read the conversation in 2c?
a. Let’s do a pairwork. Can you ask and answer questions? Please talk about the people in activity 2a. You may follow the example in 2c.
b. Who would like to have a try to do the pairwork in class?
Step 8: Grammar Focus
1. Read
Read the sentences in the grammar box.
2. Point out the notes
How’s the weather? It’s raining. be doing
现在进行时态
Step 9: Summarize
Let’s summarize what we learnt in this period.
Step 10: Homework
1. Copy the words in activity 1a and the sentences in the grammar box.
2. Read the tapescript of activity 2a and 2b.
Period 2
Step 1: Lead in
What did we learn in? Who can tell us? Yes. We got to know how to ask about the weather and what people are doing. Besides them, we learnt some words to describe the weather. Do you still remember how to say them? OK. Let’s review them first.
Step 2: Revision
1. Ask and answer
a. Would you please translate my Chinese into English? 下雨、下雪……
b. Please practice in pairs. Student A says in Chinese and student B translates it into English.
2. Dictation
Please take out your dictation exercise books and let’s have a dictation.
Step 3: Section A 3a
1. Match
a. We have learnt some description words before. What are they? Do you still remember?
b. Yes. We know interesting, exciting, funny, boring et
c. and we use them to describe things like movies. Today we are going to learn more description words. Let’s look at activity 3a on Page 33. There are four description words and can you guess what they mean? Please look them up in the word list if you don’t know them.
c. Now I think all of you know what they mean. Please match the words with the faces in the box.
2. Check the answers
Have you finished? Let’s check them together.
Answers: 1. c 2. b 3. d 4. a
3. Explain
a. Do you know how to use the words like these? Please look at the two women. What are they talking about?
b. Yes, they are greeting. Please pay attention that if we haven’t seen each other for a long time, we usually greet others with the sentence like How’s it going? How to answer it? If we are very good, we may use “Great” or “Pretty good”；If we are good, we may use “Not bad”；If we aren’t good, we may use “Terrible.”
Step 4: Section A 3b
1. Read
a. Let’s move to activity 3b now. First, I would like you to read the conversation with your partner.
b. Who would like to have a try in class?
2. Pairwork
a. Please practice the conversation in the picture.
b. Could you please make your conversation like this?
c. Who would like to have a try to practice in class?
Step 5: Section A 4
Game—Find the differences!
a. Now class, let’s have a guessing game in pairs. Student A looks at the picture on page 84. Student B looks at the picture on Page 82.
b. Student A describes what the people are doing in his / her picture. And student B listens and describes what such people are doing in his / her picture.
Example: A: In my picture, Aunt Betty is playing soccer with Nancy.
B: In my picture, Aunt Betty is watching TV.
Step 6: Summarize
Let’s summarize what we learnt in this period.
Step 7: Homework
Try to write an article to talk about what Aunt Betty and her family are doing according to the pictures on Page 81 and 82.
Period 3
Step 1: Lead in
Good morning, boys and girls. Shall we continue our lessons? Could you please tell me what we learnt in Section A? Yes. We learnt to talk about the weather and what people are doing.
Step 2: Revision
Review
a. I will show you some pictures and please ask and answer how the weather is there and what they are doing now.
b. Let’s have a dictation.
Step 3: Section B 1a
1. Look
a. In Section A, we learnt to talk about the weather and what people are doing. In Section B, we are going to learn to describe the weather and talk about what people are doing.
b. Open your books at Page 34. Would you please look at activity 1a?
c. Look at the pictures. How is the weather in the pictures?
2. Match
Please match the words with the pictures.
3. Check the answers
Have you finished, everyone? Let’s check them together.
Answers: 1. d 2. a 3. e 4. b 5. c
Step 4: Section B 1b
Pairwork
a. Let’s do a pairwork according to the pictures in 1a. Please ask and answer about the weather in the picture in 1a. You may follow the example in 1
b.
b. Who would like to have a try in class?
Step 5: Section B 2a
1. Listen and write
a. Let’s move to acti vity 2a now. It is a listening exercise. For the first time, I would like you to listen only.
b. Now, for the second time, please listen to it again and write what Maria and Sam answer to “How’s it going?” in the chart.
2. Check the answers
I think most of you have finished it. Let’s check them together.
Answers: Maria: pretty good
Sam: great
Step 6: Section B 2b
1. Listen
Listen to the conversation for the first time.
2. Listen and write
a. Listen to the tape again and write what Maria and Sam answer to “What are you doing?” and “How’s the weather?” in the chart.
b. Listen to the tape again and check them by yourselves.
3. Check the answers
Let’s check the answers together.
Answers: Maria: I’m visiting my grandmother.
Hot and humid and sunny.
Sam:I’m having a party.
Terrible. Cold and raining.
4. Read the tapescript
a. Let’s read the tapescript together.
b. Would you please read the tapescript in pairs?
c. Please translate the conversation into Chinese in paris.
d. Who would like to read in class?
Step 7: Section B 2c
Pairwork
a. Let’s have a role play now. In activity 2a and 2b, we heard what Maria and Sam talked about. I would like you to work in pairs to practice the conversations. Student A is Maria and student B is Sam. Please ask and answer these questions: How’s it going? What are you doing? How’s the weather?
b. Who would like to have a try in class?
Step 8: Summarize
Let’s summarize what we learnt in this period.
Step 9: Homework
Practice the activity 2a and 2b in Section B.
Period 4
Step 1: Lead in
We have finished the most part of Unit 6. And in this period, we will try to finish Section B. But before that, I would like you to review what we learnt before.
Step 2: Revision
1. Make a speech
Can you make a speech to describe the weather and tell us what they are doing?
2. Dictation
Let’s have a dictation.
Step 3: Section B 3a
1. Read
a. Let’s go into activity 3a on Page 35. There is an article from Yuan Yuan who is
a reporter from CCTV.
b. Please read it by yourselves.
c. Who would like to read it in class?
2. Underline
Please underline the things that people are doing.
3. Check the answers
I think most of you have finished. Please check your answers with your partner.
Answers:
Underlined items: taking photos, lying on the beach, playing beach volleyball
4. Circle
Please circle the words that describe the weather.
5. Check the answers
Answer:
Circled items: beautiful, sunny, heat
6. Explain
There are some important words and phrases. Let me explain them to you.
Thank you for doing sth. join on vacation take photos others lie on this group of people play beach volleyball be surprised in this heat be relaxed
Step 4: Section B 3b
1. Look and write
There are three pictures of France. Would you please fill in the blanks according to the pictures?
2. Check the answers
I think most of you have finished it. Let’s check them. Would you please read your article to your friends and see whether your answers are the same?
Answers: 1. windy 2. cold 3. coats 4. eating / drinking / meeting 5. park 6. playing the guitar
7. are playing soccer8. taking9. photo
3. Read
a. Let’s read the article together.
b. Please read it by yourselves this time.
c. Who would like to have a try to read it in class?
Step 5: Section B 3c
Task—This is my hometown
a. Let’s perform a task now. Just now, we read the article from Yuan Yuan in
3a. She tells us the weather in Australia and what people are doing there. This time, imagine you also work for CCTV’s Around China show. Would you please write what the weather is like in your hometown and what the people are doing there? You may follow the example in 3a.
b. Please share your articles with your friends.
c. I would like to invite some of you to read your articles in class.
Step 6: Section B 4
Task—A survey about what my friends do in different weather.
a. In this unit, we learn to talk about different weather and what people are doing. As we all know, people will do different things in different weather. Now, I would like to give you a task. Can you make a survey about what your friends do in different weather?
b. Please fill in the chart with the information you get.
Example: A: What do you do when it’s sunny?
B: I swim.
A: What do you do when it’s raining?
B: I usually watch TV at home.
A: How about windy days?
B: I read books.
A: What do you do when it’s snowing?
B: I skate.
…
Step 7: Summarize
Let’s summarize what we did in this period.
Step 8: Homework
Try to recite the article in 3a.
Period 5
Step 1: Lead in
We have spent four periods on Unit 6. This is the last period of Unit 6. In this period, we will do some exercises and make sure you learn this unit well.
Step 2: Self-check-1
1. Check the words and the phrases you know
Open your books and look at Self-check-1. If you know the words and the phrases well, please check them.
2. Read
I would like all of you to read the words and the phrases together.
Step 3: Self-check-2
1. Do you have any other words you don’t know? Please write them in your exercise books.
2. Please ask your friends for help.
3. Looking up the dictionary is also a good way to study English. I hope you can get more from dictionaries.
Step 4: Self-check-3
Look and write
a. Let’s look at Self-check-3. Yuan Yuan is interviewing people in five different places. Please look at the pictures and fill in the chart about the weather and what people are doing.
b. Check the answers
Could you please read what you wrote to your friends?
Let’s check your answers now.
Answers:
Step 5: Summarize
Let’s summarize what we did in this period.
Step 6: Homework
1. Do the exercises on the Students’ Book and the textbook.
2. Review Unit 6.
3. Watch the pictures in Just for fun on Page 36.。