Period One Section A 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a+ Section B 1a, 1b. Teaching aims 1. KnowledgeWords:rain,windy,cloudy,sunny,snow,weather,Moscow,Boston,hows,bad,terrinle,prettycool, cold, humid, warm, hotSentence structures: Hows it going? Hows the weather? Whats the weather like? 2. Ability: Talk about the weather and greet each other with a new structure. 3. Cultural awareness: A new way of greetings and asking about the weather is quite a common greeting in western countries.Important points: A new way of greetings and the description words about the weather. .Difficult points: Hows the weather? Its raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/.Hows it going? Great! /Not bad! /Terrible! /Pretty good!Teaching procedures Step1. Warming up 1. Ask the Ss randomly: Whats the date today? What day is it today? How are you? 2. Give a new expression which has the same mea ning as How are you? : Hows it going? But the new one has more answers Step2. Presentation 1. Show 4 faces on the screen and ask Ss to describe each face using whatever words they can. Help Ss identify each person is feeling. 2. Then show 4 words. Say the words and ask Ss to repeat each one. Ask Ss to match each remembered phrase with a face. Encourage them to spell the phrases by How do you spell it? 3. Practice with the new structure by the whole class: Choose one to the front and the others guess the description words through his/her facial expression Step3. Presentation 1. Let one student ask me: Hows it going? I may answer like this: Terrible! Because its snowing and its so cold. Show a picture of snowing day and children are making a snowman and pretend to be very cold. Make Ss guess the words: the weather and snowing. Ask them: Hows the weather? Get them to answer like: Its snowing/snowy. Go on with other kinds of weather: sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy. 2. Point out the numbered list of description words. Say each on e and ask Ss to repeat the words again. Then ask Ss to match each word with one of cities in the picture. Check the answers. 3. Play the tape and get Ss to write the city names in the boxes. Check the answers. Look at the 5 pictures in 1a. Encourage Ss to use the description words to describe the weather: Beijing sunny and warm/hot Shanghaicloudy and cool Bostonwindy and cool Moscow snowing and cold Torontoraining and humid. Show an arrow to identify the degree of the 4 adjectives: cold, cool, warm and hot. 4. Practice with the structures: Hows the weather? and Whats the weather like? with the 5 pictures The exact weather on that day should not be missed. Note: Talking about the weather is quite common in western countries as a daily greeting. Step4. Weather reportShow a weather map of China. Get Ss to make a weather report as a CCTV anchor. They may begin with asking the weather in each city, then make up a report about it. Step5. Chant Show an easy chant to reinforce the questions and words about the weather. Step6. Homework 1. Copy the new words 4 times each. 2. Summarize the usages of how in questions. 3. Watch a weather report on TV and take down some notes about the weather forecast for tomorrow, and then write a report about it Period Two Section A 2a, 2b, 2c, 3b+ Grammar Focus. Teaching aims 1.KnowledgeWords: cook, study Sentence structures: What are you/ they doing? We/ They are What is he/she doing? He/ She is Yes/No questions and short answers. 2. Ability: Ask and answer the Present Progressive Tense, and describe the activities people are doing 3. Cultural awareness: The inner feelings of the Ss are motivated by understanding and comparing different peoples lives in different areas.Important points: the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense .Difficult points: Describe the weather and activities with the Present Progressive Tense Teaching procedures Step1. Warming up and revision 1. Daily greetings: Howre you today? Hows it going? How is the weather? Ask these questions randomly to the Ss to revise what they learned yesterday 2. Point out the conversation in the large picture in 3b on P33 and ask two Ss to read it to the class. Practice it in pairs, then change some of the words and make their own conversations. 3. If Ss do quite well, show a piece of cartoon of the Snow-white and the seven dwarfs. Step2. Presentation 1. After showing the cartoon, ask Ss: What are they doing? (They are singing and dancing.) Show more pictures with questions: Whats he/she doing? and Whatre they doing? to get Ss to practice the tense which is the core grammar of this period. Get Ss to guess out the word cook by the picture. Choosing the right words and pair work are added as the reinforcements. 2Lets see what Joes families are doing. Point to the 4 pictures (The girl in the second picture is talking on the phone with the first speaker.). Ask Ss tell each person is doing in each picture. More attentions should be paid to the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense. Use