Period 2 Unit 7 It's raining ! (Section A 2a-2d)

Teaching aims

　1. Words : cook, bad, park, message, take a message, could, back, problem

　2. Can use the structures:

　--How is the weather in...? ---It's ...

　What are you doing? --I'm playing basketball.

　What is he doing? --He is playing basketball.

　--Can I take a message for him? --Yes. Could you just tell him to call me back?

　--Sure, no problem.

Ability Objects：

　1.Train students' listening and speaking skills.

　2. Train students' ability of understanding.

Teaching Key Points：

　1.Key phrase.

　2.Target language.

Teaching Difficulties：

　Master the key sentence structure

Teaching procedures：

Step1 warm up.

　Watch a video, ask and answer :

　T: Hi! How's the weather ?

　S1: It's sunny. ...

Step 2 presentation:

　Show the pictures and ask and answer:

　How's the weather ? S1: It's sunny. ...

　 What are they doing on a sunny day? They are running.

　(Learn the other language in the same way.)

Step 3 Work on 2a.

　1. Let's see what Joe's families are doing. Point to the 4 pictures.

　2. Ask Ss tell each person is doing in each picture. More attentions should be paid

　 to the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense.

　3. Play the recording for the Ss to listen and number the pictures [1-4].

　4. Play the tape for Ss to check the answers.

　5. With the whole picture, get some Ss to tell the story of it.

　6. Let Ss match the names with the activities in 2b.

　 Play the recording for the Ss to check the answers.

　7. Brainstorming

Play the tape for another time. Then do a memory test.