1. Have the students read the example dialogue.
2. Do an example with the class.
3. Continue the activity in pairs.
Step 3 Consolidation
1. Use the Activity Book
2. Play a game
Step 4 The end
1. Let’s sing a song
Unit 2 It’s hot and sunny today.
Step 1 Warmer
1. Greetings
2. Get four large pieces of paper. Write one season, i.e. spring, summer, autumn, winter, on each piece of paper. Place the piece of paper around the classroom.
3. Suggested words and expressions are cool, hot, warm, cold, Happy Spring Festival, Happy Christmas.
Step 2 New Teaching
一、 Listen and point
1. Look at the pictures. Ask questions in Chinese e.g. What can Lingling see in Picture1? What is Sam doing in Picture2?
2. Now hold up my book and point to the different pictures. Have the students name the seasons.
3. Get the students to dose their books, play the tape.
4. Open the students’ books play the tape again and have the students point to the relevant pictures.
5. Teach the new vocabulary, Mime looking up at the sky and then hurriedly putting up an umbrella. Say “It’s raining.” Get the students to repeat the sentence. Follow the same procedure for ‘windy’, snowing and ‘sunny’.