Lesson 1: What’s the Weather Like?

Lesson 1: What’s the Weather Like?

Lesson 1: What’s the Weather Like?

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: rather, shower, rise, rose, risen, set

Oral words and expressions: thunder, storm, sunrise, sunset

Teaching Aims:

Talking about weather

Teaching Important Points:

1. Describe the weather in spring;

2. Talk about the temperature.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Describe the nature phenomenon.

Teaching preparation: the pictures of spring

Teaching Aids: audiotape; flashcards; pictures

Type of lesson: new lesson

Teaching Procedure:

Step1. Free talk

1.What weather do you like? Why or why not?

2.What sports can you do in this season?

Step2. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”

Let the students work in groups and answer the following questions:

1. Look outside. What’s the weather like today?

2. How does this weather make you feel?

Step3. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:

1. What’s the weather like today?

2. It is snowing, isn’t it?

3. what’s the temperature?

4. is it going to rain today, isn’t it?

Step4. Read the text and check the answers. Read the text in roles.

Step5. Practice

Work in three students. Suppose you are a weather reporter. Now report today’s weather to the others in your group. Then report it to the class.

Step6. Practice

Make up a dialogue between two or three students in class. It is about the weather in spring. Let some students act it out before the class.

Step7. Homework

1. Find something that represents spring and show it to the class next time.

2. Finish off the activity book.