资料简介
Unit 7 Seasons
Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. know some expressions about different weather;
2. talk about students’ favourite seasons.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: Words: rainy, snowy, bet, foggy, look cool, with nothing on
2. New structures: Which season do you like best?
It’s the best time to play football outside.
Which is your favourite season?
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Describe different kinds of weather in different seasons.
IV. Teaching procedures
A Comic strip
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Free talk
Enjoy some pictures and think about “What is cool?”. Encourage students to think about and talk about the different meanings of “cool”.
When I am very hot and thirsty, cool is a glass of juice with ice.
When I get up in the early morning, the cool wind can make me feel cool.
When I see the picture of Doctor Du, I can’t help shouting “cool”!
People who are so strong are very cool.
A person who is clever at math is very cool.
A person who remembers things well is very cool.
A student who is good at all subjects at school is very cool.
2. Discussion
Show some pictures and talk about the topic “How can we be cool?”. Encourage students to think of more
ideas about how to be cool.
Maybe we can work hard to have some excellent or different skills.
Maybe we can learn to sing “hip-pop” and pop dance. It’s really cool!
Maybe we can dress up in strange and special clothes to make us so strange and so cool.
Maybe we can get stronger and taller because a strong man will make others feel cool.
【设计意图】Brain storm “What is cool?”和 free talk “How can we be cool” 引出本单元重点词汇和句型,导入新课,快速进入英语语境。
Step 2 Presentation
1. Listen to the tape and then answer the following questions
What does Eddie want to do?
Is it cold today?
Does Eddie look cool in the clothes?
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2. Read aloud by following the tape
3. Fill in the blanks
Eddie wants Hobo to ______ him his clothes because he feels ______. Eddie thinks he looks ______ in a suit. Hobo laughs at Eddie and ______ he will ______ cool and ______ cool without ________ on.
4. Act out
Work in pairs and act out the dialogue. Students can add their own ideas.
【设计意图】以课本对话为基础,鼓励学生自由发挥、想象表演,使学生主动积极地参与课堂,训练学生口语表达能力,为后面的教学做好铺垫。
B Welcome to the unit
Step 1 Lead-in
A poem about four seasons.
Spring is warm with fog and song, Summer is hot and days are long, Autumn is cool with cloud and rain, Winter brings snow and cold wind again.
【设计意图】通过优美的四季画面和简单易学的诗歌,对学生进行情感教育,激发学生对美好生活的热爱。通过诗歌引出表示天气的词汇。
Step 2 Presentation
1. Show some pictures and learn some new words.
sunàsunny , cloudàcloudy , windàwindy , rainàrainy , fogàfoggy , snowàsnowy
2. Read and try to recite the new words.
3. Watch and answer
Students watch the video carefully and then answer the question “How many kinds of weather are there in the video?”
4. Listen and answer
Listen to Amy and Simon’s conversation and answer these questions.
Which season does Simon like best? Why?
Which season does Amy like best? Why?
【设计意图】通过一段简短易学的关于天气的儿歌视频,巩固所学的词汇。
Step 3 Practice
1. Encourage students to think of more words about weather.
T: What other weather can you think of?
2. Discussion
(1) Find some proper words to describe each season
(2) Discuss what we can or cannot do in each season
What can/cannot we do on these days?
What should/shouldn’t we do on these days?
3. Talk about students’ favourite seasons and weather. Work in pairs and make up their own dialogues.
—What is your favourite weather and why?
—I like … because …
【设计意图】通过说出图片中的物体引出表达天气的形容词,让学生对表达天气的形容词的构词规律有直观的认识。通过讨论和图片提示,学生知道更多的天气的表达,拓宽了词汇量、丰富了知识,并能将新学知识在下面的教学设计中加以运用。
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Step 4 Activity
Talk show time.
Play the role of a weather reporter to make a weather report.
【设计意图】学生通过做天气预报的主持人再次通过口头表达,再次在情景中操练所学的关于天气和季节的生词,现学活用。训练学生的口头语言组织和表达能力,并拓展学生的思维。
V. Homework
1. Recite the new words.
2. Read the two dialogues.
3. Talk about different seasons with your classmates.
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