Module 10 The weather
一、学习目标:
A. 单词和短语：
cloud, shower, snow, storm, cloudy, rainy, snowy, sunny, windy, skate, thick, ice, joke, might, temperature, minus, degree, although, wet, terrible, wish, probably, come on, mile, northwest, umbrella, southeast, from time to time
B. 交际用语：
1. You’re joking!
2. Sounds great!
3. Come on!
4. When is the best time to visit your country?
5. What clothes should she bring?
6. What’s the temperature?
7. Where are you going?
8. It’ll probably be cold tomorrow.
9. It might be rainy.
10. It’s probably sunny and hot there.
11. Bring a map because you may want to travel around.
二、教学目标
1. Function: Describing the weather.
2. Structure: may, might, probably (for possibility)
3. Skills:
1) Listening and understanding familiar topics (weather).
2) Giving weather forecast based on clues; predicting about future weather using probably.
3) Reading and finding specific information.
4) Writing a short passage about the best time to visit your town, using because, so and but.
4. Around the world: The wettest place
5. Task: Preparing some advice on the best time to visit China
三、重点及难点:
1. Describing the weather.
2. Grammar: The using of may, might, probably (for possibility)
四、教学设计:
Unit 1 It might snow.
ⅠTeaching model
Listening and speaking
ⅡTeaching method
Interactive approach
Ⅲ Teaching aims
1. To understand conversations about the weather;
2. To get specific information from the listening material;
3. To talk about possibilities
Ⅳ Teaching Objectives
1. Key vocabulary: cloud, shower, snow, storm, cloudy, rainy, snowy, sunny, windy, skate, thick, ice, joke, might, temperature, minus, degree, although, wet, terrible, wish, probably, come on
2. Key structures: may, might, probably (for possibility)
3. Key sentences:
1) — What’s the temperature?
— It’s between minus five and minus two degrees!
2) — What’s the weather like in …? = How is the weather in …?
— It’s snowy (cloudy, rainy, sunny, windy ...).
3) … although this year it snowed a lot.
4) Come on, better get going!
5) It’s probably sunny and hot there.
It’ll probably be cold tomorrow.
