Unit 7 It's raining

　　　　　　　　　　　The First Period

I. Teaching Objects:

1. Knowledge Object: (1) Key Vocabulary: Moscow, Boston, raining,

windy, cloudy, sunny,snowing, how's=how is, weather

(2) Target Language: How's the weather? It's sunny.

What are you doing? I'm......

What's he/she doing? He/She is......

2. Ability Objects: Listening skill; Communicative competence; Oral

　practice.

3. Moral Object:

(1)It's necessary to know about the places of interest of some cities.

(2)We should protect our environment.

II. Teaching Key Points:

1. Key vocabulary.

2. Learn to talk about the weather using the target language. The present progressive tense.

III. Teaching Difficulties:

1. Learn to talk about the weather using the target language;

2. Train students' listening skills and communicative competence.

IV. Teaching Methods:

Listening method, Pair work, Oral practice.