A: Hi, Dave. How's it going? B: Pretty good.()

Teaching Contents:Four dialogues about the weather.Teaching Objectives:
(1)Knowledge objectives
①Students can master some words of weather,such as"cloudy,snow,windy,sunny,rain".
②Students can talk about weather with others by using the sentence patterns"How's the weather in...?""It's...".
(2)Ability objectives
①Students can improve their listening abilities through extensive listening and intensive listening.
②Students can develop their speaking abilities by role play.
(3)Emotional objectives
①Students are willing to communicate with each other in English.
②Students can become interested in using English to describe weather in their daily life.
Teaching Key Point:
Students can master the words about weather and sentence patterns"How's the weather in...?""It's...".
Teaching Difficult Point:
Students can use new sentence patterns to talk about the weather correctly.
Major Steps:
Step 1 Pre-listening(4 minutes)
Teach these new words by presenting pictures of different weather conditions on the screen,and then,let students?read the words after the tape.
(Justification:This step can arouse students'interest and pave the way for students'listening activity.)
Step 2 While-listening(10 minutes)
Task 1
Play the tape and ask students to summarize the main idea,then talk about and write down which cities are?mentioned in the listening material.
For example:Shanghai,Moscow,Boston,Beijing,and Toronto.
Task 2
Ask students to listen to the tape for the second time and fill in the following table.



Task 3
Ask students to find out the key sentences describing weather.Then let students learn the sentence patterns by?changing the underlined part into the new words.
E.g.--How's the weather inBeijing?
--It's sunny.
(Justification:Through extensive listening,students will grasp the main content of this listening material.Through intensive listening,students will enhance their ability of grasping specific information.)
Step 3 Post-listening(6 minutes)
Group work:Role play
Ask students to do a role play in groups of four.Students act as weather reporters to give weather forecast of?different cities in turn.After 5 minutes,each group will choose a representative to perform it in front of the class.
For example:
Good morning,ladies and gentlemen.Here is the weather forecast of our city.It's cloudy tomorrow,and it's?very cold,so you should wear more clothes when you go outside.It has a strong wind in the afternoon,and it will be?raining the day after tomorrow.
(Justification:With practice,students can not only review the knowledge that they have learned,but also develop?their speaking ability.)
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