Module 10 Unit 2The weather is fine all year round教案

Module 10 The weather

Unit 2 The weather is fine all year round.

教学目标

【知识目标】

1、能够正确使用下列单词和词组：mile, round, northwest, southeast, the best time to do sth., from time to time, compared to, had better (not) do.等。

2、能够读懂介绍美国各州天气的短文，扑捉主旨大意；能找出相关的细节信息。【能力目标】

1、能理解本单元出现的动词不定式的用法。

2、能正确使用连词because, so和but写一篇去你家乡的最好时节并给出原因. 【情感态度目标】

了解世界各地的天气情况，培养学习地理知识的愿望和兴趣。

教学重难点

【教学重点】

能够读懂介绍美国各州天气的短文。

【教学难点】

能够运用情态动词may, might 以及副词probably表达”可能”。

教学过程

Step 1 Revision

Talk about the weather.

1) Show a China weather map.

2) Ask and answer:

What will the weather be like in …?

Step 2 Warming up

Work in pairs.

When’s the best time to visit your town or country? Why?

Step 3 Reading

1. Show some pictures about the weather of the cities and states in America.

2. Talk about what you can see in the pictures.

3. Talk something about the weather of the cities and states.

4. Introduce the new words.

5. Read the new words.

6. Play the recording and listen to the tape carefully.

7. Ask the students to read through the passage.

Step 4 Complete the table.

1. Read the passage again.

2. Complete the table in Activity

3.

Places Weather Best time to visit

New York Winter: 1. __________ 2.______________

New England 3. ________________ 4. ______________ California 5._________________ 6. ______________

Alaska Summer: 7. _________

8. ______________

Winter: 9.___________

3. Check with a partner.

4. Call back the answers from the whole class.

Keys:

1. Snowy

2. In May or October

3. Cool

4. In September

5. Fine

6. Any time you like

7. Warm and cool

8. Cold

9. In summer

Step 5 Complete the sentences.

1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.

brown mile storm sweater umbrella

2. Ask the students to read through the sentences in Activity 4.

3. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words from the box.

4. Check with a partner.

5. Call back the answers from the whole class.

Keys:

1. brown

2. miles

3. sweater

4. storm

5. umbrella

Step 6 Language points

1. The best time to visit New England is in September.

九月是去新英格兰游览的最佳时间。

这里的New England (新英格兰) 指的是美国东北部的一个地区，他包括六个州：缅因州（Maine）、新罕布什尔州（New Hampshire）、佛蒙特州(Vermont )、马萨诸塞州(Massachusetts)、罗得岛州(Rhode Island) 和康涅狄格州(Connecticut) 。这里的小镇非常美丽，每年秋天都会有大批游客来此游玩。1614年英国探险家约翰•史密斯( John Smith ) 给这个地方起名为新英格兰。

2. Bring your camera so you can take photos of the autumn trees.

带上你的照相机以便可以拍摄秋天的树木。

take photos of …的意思是“给……拍照”。例如：

I took a photo of Linda.我给琳达拍了一张照片。

She took a lot of photos of the kids. 她给孩子们拍了许多照片。

3. In Texas and the southeast, it’s usually very hot and sunny compared to other places. 和其他地方对比，得克萨斯州和东南部地区通常天气很热，阳光灿烂。compared to 意为“和……比较”，表示此意也可以用compared with。例如：Compared to our s mall house, Bill’s house seemed like a palace.

和我们的小房子相比，比尔的房子就像一座宫殿。

This road is quite busy compared to/ with ours.

和我们（附近）的马路相比，这条马路（交通）非常繁忙。

4. There are storms from time to time in summer and autumn.

但是夏秋季节时常有暴风雨。

from time to time 表示“时常，有时”。例如：

He has moved to another city, but we write to each other from time to time.

他移居到了另外一座城市，但是我们会时不时通通信。

They are now living in different cities, but they still talk on the phone from time to time. 他们现在生活在不同的城市里，但是仍然偶尔通通电话。

Step 7 Exercises: