How's the weather? It's raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/.

How's it going? Great! /Not bad! /Terrible! /Pretty good!

Teaching procedures

Step1. Warming up

　　1. Ask the Ss randomly: What's the date today? What day is it today? How are you?

2. Give a new expression which has the same meaning as How are you? : How's 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 expressions.

Step3. Practice and listening test

1. Let one student ask me: How's it going? I may answer like this: Terrible! Because it's snowing and it's 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: How's the weather? Get them to answer like: It's snowing/snowy. Go on with other kinds of weather: sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy.

2. 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: ①Beijing-sunny and warm/hot ②Shanghai-cloudy and cool ③Boston-windy and cool ④Moscow-snowing and cold ⑤Toronto-raining and humid. Show an arrow to identify the degree of the 4 adjectives: cold, cool, warm and hot.

　　4. Practice with the structures: How's the weather? and What's 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 report

Show 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