Unit 2 The weather is fine all year round.
ⅠTeaching model
Reading and writing.
ⅡTeaching method
Bottom-up approach
Ⅲ Tea ching aims
1. Listening and unders tanding familiar topics (weather)
2. Giving weather forecast based on clues; predicting ab out 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.
Ⅳ Teaching Objectives
1. Key vocabulary: mile, northwest, umbrella, southeast, from time to time
2. Keys sentences:
1) When’s the best time to visit the US?
2) The US is a very big country to visit.
3) So choose carefully the places to see and the time to go.
4) Bring a map because you may want to travel around.
5) New York and Washington DC are good places to visit in May or October.
6) The best time to visit New England is in September.
7) The weather gets cooler and the green leaves start to go gold, then brown.
8) It’s a good idea to bring your camera so you can take photos of autumn trees.
9) Take your swimming clothes because you might want to go swimming in the sea, even in December.
10) So when’s the best time to visit the US?
ⅤTeaching aids
Recorder, OHP, video
Ⅵ Teaching Steps
Step 1 Revision
Talk about the weather.
1) Show a China weather map.
2) Ask and answer:
What will the weather be like in …?
Step 2 Warming up
Work in pairs.
When’s the best time to visit your town or country? Why?
Step 3 Reading and vocabulary
1. Talk about what you can see in the pictures.
2. Learn the words and expressions.
3. Show the map of The United States of America.
4. Read the passage and fill in the blanks.
1) New York and Washington DC are good places to visit in ____ or ________, but in winter there’s a lot of ______.
2) The best time to visit New England is in __________. The weather gets ______, and the green leaves start to turn _____, then ______. Bring your _______ so you can take pho tos of the autumn trees.
3) In California, the weather is ____ all year round. Take your swimming clothes because you might want to go __________ in the sea, even in _________.
4) In Seattle, in the northwest, it isn’t very ____ but it ____ a lot, so bring an ________.
5) In Al aska, the days are long and warm in _______, but may be ____ in the evening, so bring a warm _______. Don’t go in winter. It’ll be very cold.
6) In Texas and the southeast, it’s usually very ____ and ______ compared to other places. There are _______ from time to time in summer and autumn.
