2. Key sentences重点句子

It’s freezing, isn’t it?

It may not even be cold, just wet. And it might be windy.

What will the weather be like?

It may be quite cool, so it’ll probably be hot and sunny.

Come on, better get going!

Ability goals 能力目标

Enable students to listen to and talk about weather.

Teaching important/difficult points 教学重难点

The usage of may, might and probably.

Teaching methods教学方法

Task-based learning.

Teaching aids教具准备

A projector, some pictures and a tape recorder

Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式

Step I Lead-in

Show some pictures to help students learn some new words about weather.

         

The Sun    Clouds     Rain   Severe Weather

T: Weather has an important effect on our lives. If we are planning a trip or just getting dressed in the morning, we always have to know what the weather will be like. Weather changes with different seasons and times. Look at the picture above. What’s the weather like?

S: It’s sunny.

S: It’s cloudy.

S: It’s raining.

S: It’s flashing.

Show the words about the weather.

cloud, rain, showers, snow, storm, sun, wind

Ask students to read the new words. Make sure they know the meaning of each word. Then ask them to do activity 1.

Help students match the words with the symbols.

Step II Listening

In this procedure, ask students to listen to the tape and check the correct information in the table. If the information is wrong, correct it.

T: If we want to know weather information, we may listen to weather forecast. Please listen to a forecast and check the correct information in the table.

Play the tape. Then check the answers with students.

Ask students to listen to the dialogue in activity 4.

T: Spring Festival is coming. Do you want to see friends at Spring Festival? Of course we do. So it is very important to listen to the weather forecast during the Spring Festival. Tony is going to England during the Spring festival. What will be the weather like? Now listen and find out.

Ask students to listen to the tape and then fill in the blanks in activity 5.

Check the answers.

Step III Reading

In this procedure, ask students to read the dialogue and do activity 6 as a competition to see if the sentences are true or false.

T: Read the dialogue again and do activity 6. Check if they are true or false. Let’s have a competition between boys and girls. If you stand up and correct the question correctly first, you will get a star. Those who get more stars will be the winner.

Sample:

S1: It’s always cold and wet in February in England.

S2: True.

S1: It’s often freezing in February in England.

S2: False. It may not be cold, just wet. And it might be windy in England.

…

Step IV Pronunciation and speaking

In this procedure, ask students to listen to the tape and help students find out the different connotation of different of intonation.

After listening, ask students to read these sentences loudly and then decide if the speaker is asking a question or showing surprise.

Check the answers.

Speaking

Ask students to work in pairs and give a forecast for China according to activity 2.

T: In this lesson, we have learnt many different types of weather. We can use some words to describe the weather. Let’s report a weather forecast for China according to activity 2. Now work in pairs and make a weather forecast. We can use may, might, probably to describe something we are not very certain of.

Ask some pairs to show their report before the class.

One sample version:

Tomorrow may be sunny. It may be rainy next week. It might be very cold next month.

Step V Homework

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