I. Teaching aims and materials
Learn some new words and the use of some sentence structures to discribe the weather and the temperature. Such as “It is nice and warm ! The lowest/highest temperature is…”
II.Teaching procedure
第一课时
Step1. Revision(6 min)
Pratice the dialogue in section A with the whole class to review the new words and sentence structures we have learned last period.
A: What’s the weather like in spring?
B: It’s warm. It is a good time to go hiking.
A: What’s the weather like in summer?
B: It’s hot. It is a good time to go swimming.
A: How is the weather in autumn?
B: It’s cool. We can go to climb the mountain.
A: How is the weather in winter?
B: It is very cold. But we can make snowmen .
Ask some pairs of students to make up new dialogues by using the sentence structures above.
Step 2. Presentation (teaching new words 15min)
1) Draw some clouds on the blackboard, and say “ it’s a cloudy day today, there are many clouds in the sky. So it is very dark , after without clouds, it will become bright. Guess the meaning of cloudy and bright.”