Starter Module 4 Unit 2 -外研版英语七上 课件+教案

Unit 2 What’s the weather like?

Teaching aims:

1. Master the key words and expressions in Unit 2.

2. Learn to use the key sentences to communicate each other.

3. Cultivate their ability of creation.

Teaching important and difficult points:

1. Key words and expressions:

Spring, summer, autumn, winter, warm, hot, cold, cool etc.

2. Key sentences:

What’s the weather like?

How is the weather?

It’s warm in spring.

Etc.

3. How to use what they have learnt to ask and answer each other.

Teaching steps:

Step 1. Warming up:

Revise Unit 1 by asking some questions.

Step 2. Introduction

1. Show some pictures to learn the new words and read them together, especially, pay attention to their pronunciation.

2. Read them together, encouragement should be given.

3. Give them some help and ask some of them to read them in class.

4. Ask them some questions as an inclusion, such as:

How many seasons are there in a year?

What are they?

What’s the weather like in…?

Step 3. Listen and repeat.

1. Listen to the tape in Part 1, repeat after the tape together.

2. Close their books, ask them to spell the words quickly.

3. Listen to the tape in Part 2, repeat after the tape. Then match the pictures, check answers.

4. Have a quick test to say a sentence according to the pictures what they see.

Step 4. Listen and point:

1. Listen to the tape in Part 3, repeat.

2. Read Part 3 with the help of their teacher freely.

3. Read the dialogue in pairs.

4. Encourage them to have an action in class.

Step 5. Discussion.

Work in pairs to have a discussion: What’s your favourite season? Why? Then have an action in class, more encouragement should be given.

Step 6. Listen and write.

Listen to the tape in Part 5 and write the answers on their own, check answers one by one. Then ask some of them to read their answers in class.

Step 7. Inclusion.

1. Show the key sentences and read them.

2. Find the use of in.

Step 8. Fill a table.

1. Go through the map in Part 6, Fill the table.

2. Check answers and read them together.

Step 9. Work in pairs.

1. Work in pairs to finish Part 6 freely.

2. Ask some of them work freely in class.

Step 10. Everyday English.

Read Everyday English as an inclusion.

Step 11. Exercises.

Do some exercises in class to consolidate what they have learnt in this lesson. Encouragement should be given.

Step 12. Homework.

1. Show some season pictures and work in pairs to ask and answer. Or they can have a guessing game.

2. Read Unit 2 smoothly.

3. Additional exercises

Step 13. A song called The Four Seasons.