the Ss to match the words with pictures.

3. Check the answers.

Step 3.Game (How's the weather?)

1.(Showing some pictures on the big screen.) Ask Ss "How's the weather?"

2.Ss guess and answer the question.

Step 4.Listening

1.Now let's look at the city names in the box in 1b. Please read after me.

　　 Ss read the cities after the teacher.

2.Now, We'll hear four conversations. Listen carefully, point out each city in the picture as it comes upon the tape. Play the recording a second time. Ask Ss to write the name of the city in the picture of its weather.

3.Check the answers.

Step 5.Pair work

1.Tell the Ss: If you are in one of the places in the picture above. Talk

about the weather with your friends in another city on the phone.

2.Make a model with a student like this:

T: Hi! How's the weather in Beijing?

S1: It's sunny.

　　课堂练习：

　　Ss work in pairs. Ask and answer about the weather in the cities.

　　课堂小结：

　　The main words.

　　作业布置：

　　总结有关天气的词汇

　　板书设计：

　　Unit 7 It's raining!

Section A (1a-2d)

　　　　　　　　windy cloudy raining snowing

sunny winter weather