【正文】 uds 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 ing. 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 petition 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 petition 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 1. Ask the students to learn and remember the new words and expressions of this unit. 2. Ask the students to finish activities 1—3 on page 152. Period 2 Reading and writing Target language 目標(biāo)語言 1. Words amp。 phrases 生詞和短語 possible, shine, depend, stormy, best, railcard, truly 2. Key sentences 重點(diǎn)句子 It’s freezing, isn’t it? Yes, it’s really cold. Will it be snowy? It may not even be cold just now. And it might be windy. It’ll probably be hot and sunny. It may be quite cool. Ability goals 能力目標(biāo) Enable students to use may, might and probably. Teaching important/difficult points 教學(xué)重難點(diǎn) Make sentences using It’s… to do sth and sentences with may, might, probably and because, but, so. Teaching methods 教學(xué)方 法 Taskbased learning. Teaching aids 教具準(zhǔn)備 Some pictures and a tape recorder Teaching procedures and ways 教學(xué)過程與方式 Step I Revision In this procedure, check the homework with students. Ask students to talk about weather and give advice and reasons. One sample: S: What’s the weather like in your town? S: In spring it’s very cool and there’s little rain. S: What’s the best time to visit your town? S: The best time to visit my town is in winter. S: Why? S: Because it’s not cold in winter and there’s a lot of snow in the mountains and people usually ski there. S: It might of great fun. Step II Listening In this procedure, ask students to listen to a short passage and finish activities 1 and 2. T: Do you know the city of S