七年级英语下册 Unit 7 It’s raining Period 1教案

Unit 7 It’s raining!
单元分析
本单元的中心话题是谈论天气. 整个单元的内容围绕天气展开听、说、读、写的活动。

通过本单元的学习使学生掌握描述天气的基本词汇及对天气的提问，学会准确地表达自己对某种天气的喜好并说明原因，学会做天气预报，学生叙述在不同的天气背景下做什么。

通过以上活动，使学生能够在实践中体会到学习英语的乐趣，更积极地运用目标语言，培养学生在实际生活中综合运用所学语言能力。

教学目标
1、作学习重点词汇： raining, sun ny, cloudy, snowing , windy, hot ,cool, warm, humid,
和部分现在分词。

2、掌握描绘天气状态的形容词及现在分词，并学会其特殊疑问句、一般疑问句的用法及回
答。

教学重点
A 学习并掌握记汇： raining, sunny, cloudy, snowing , windy, hot ,cool, warm, humid
B 熟练掌握现在进行时的用法；学会表达对不同天气的不同态度及原因。

教学难点
学会描述人们在不同的天气里所做的各种活动。

教具：教学挂图、录音机
课时安排
第一课时 Section A 1a- 2c 第二课时 Section A 3a-4
第三课时 Section B 1a-2c 第四课时 Section B 3a-4
Period 1(Section A 1a, 1b, 1c, Section B 1a, 1b)
Teaching aims
1、Words:rain,windy,cloudy,sunny,snow,weather,Moscow,Boston,how’s,bad,terrinle,pr etty,
cool, cold, humid, warm, hot
2、Sentence structures: How’s it going? How’s the weather? What’s the weather like? Important points
A new way of greetings and the description words about the weather.
Difficult points
How’s the weather? It’s raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/.
H ow’s it going? Great! /Not bad! /Terrible! /Pretty good!
Teaching procedures
Step1. Warming up
1. Ask the Ss randomly: What’s the date today? What day is it today? How are you?
2. Give a new expression which has the same meaning as How are you? : How’s i t going? But the new one has more answers.
Step2. Presentation
1. Show 4 faces on the screen an d ask Ss to describe each face using whatever words they can. Help Ss identify each person is feeling.
2. Then show 4 words. Say the words and ask Ss to repeat each one. Ask Ss to match each remembered phrase with a face. Encourage them to spell the phrases by How do you spell it?
3. Practice with the new structure by the whole class: Choose one to the front and the others guess the description words through his/her facial expressions. Step3. Practice and listeni ng test
1. Let one student ask me: How’s it going? I may answer like this: Terrible! Because it’s snowing and it’s so cold. Show a picture of snowing day and children are making a snowman and pretend to be very cold. Make Ss guess the words: the weather and snowing. Ask them: How’s the weather? Get them to answer like: It’s snowing/snowy. Go on with other kinds of weathe r: sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy.
2. Play the tape and get Ss to write the city names in the boxes. Check the answers. Look at the 5 pictures in 1a. Encourage Ss to use the description words to describe the weather: ①Beijing—sunny and warm/hot ②Shanghai—cloudy and cool ③Boston—windy and cool ④Moscow—snowing and cold ⑤Toronto—raining and humid. Show an arrow to identify the degree of the 4 adjectives: cold, cool, warm and hot.
4. Practice with the structures: How’s the weather? and What’s the wea ther like? with the 5 pictures The exact weather on that day should not be missed. Note: Talking about the weather is quite common in western countries as a daily greeting. Step4. Weather report
Show a weather map of China. Get Ss to make a weather report as a CCTV anchor. They may begin with asking the weather in each city, then make up a report about it.
Step5. Chant
Show an easy chant to reinforce the questions and words about the weather. Step6. Homework
1. Copy the new words 4 times each.
2. Summarize the usages of how in questions.
3. Watch a weather report on TV and take down some notes about the weather forecast for tomorrow, and then write a report about it.。