江苏省盐城市阜宁县明达初级中学八年级英语上册《Unit

Unit 6 Natural disasters 第四课时 Vocabulary Teaching Objectives
To learn to talk about and describe the weather
To identify the vocabulary about different kind of weather conditions
To understand the weather report from TV or radio
To have a better understanding of the topic of the unit
Teaching Procedures
STEP 1 Looking and learning
Show some pictures of different kinds of weather condition. Then get them to elicit the noun and adjectives and write them of the board in pairs.
Try to use sentences to talk about the weather. Do not just write the words down. e.g. There is white snow everywhere. It is snowing. It is a snowy day.
Explain how a noun is changed into an adjective. We add a ‘-y’ to most of the nouns to make adjectives. Point out that we need t o double the ‘n’, when we are changing ‘sun’ into an adjective.
STEP 2 Completing the exercises in Part A
Invite the students to complete the exercises in Part A, Page 94. And then get the students to read the words well.
STEP 3 Using words in context
Show more pictures and offer the students a chance to use these words, as the pictures are shown in the following table.
What’s the weather like? / How is the weather?
There is thick snow everywhere. It snows heavily.
The weather is snowy. It’s snowy.
It is a stormy day. The wind is blowing strongly and the rain is too heavy.
It is raining too heavily. It’s a rainy day. The world is all wet. You should
take a raincoat or an umbrella with you.
The wind is too strong. What a windy day!
Look! There are a lot of clouds How cloudy it is! It is going to rain.
The sun is shining brightly. It is a sunny day. We can enjoy ourselves
outside.
There’s too much fog. We can’t see anything clearly. It’s so foggy. We
must drive carefully
The window is covered with much frost. It’s frosty weather.
Get the students to talk about the pictures and help them to understand the use of nouns and adjectives on weather conditions.
STEP 4 Eliciting the weather forecast/ weather report
Use some pictures to elicit the weather forecast/ weather report. They get the students to learn about the symbols of weather conditions.
Get the students to read the words and then invite them to do Part B, Page 98.
First get the students to check the answers in pairs and then check it in class. Go through the dialogue and then help the students to understand the changes to the weather with the help of the table above.
The temperature will be around 7o C.
The temperature is going to drop a little.
So the weather won’t be too bad.
The temperature will be lower.
The weather will become worse on Friday.
The temperature will drop to -5 o C.
Get the students to read the dialogue together. Make sure that the students can read the temperature well.
STEP 5 Giving a weather report
Show the students the local weather conditions and ask them to give a weather report using the given information.
For stronger classes the teacher can download some maps of weather and get the students to talk about it. Give them some sentence structures.
1.The weather was/is/will be…,but it will be/get…
2.The weather will get better/worse.
3.The high temperature is …
4.The temperature is around….It is going to drop to…
STEP 6 Homework
a.Watch the weather forecast programme on TV. And then write a report about it in English.
Encourage the students to listen to the weather report on CCTV 9.
b.Finish off the exercise in the Evaluation Handbook and Learning English.。