英语八年级上册Module 10 The weatherUnit 2 The weather is fine all year round.教案

Module 10 Unit 2 The weather is fine all year round

ⅠTeaching model

Reading and writing. 

ⅡTeaching method

 Bottom-up approach

Ⅲ Teaching aims

1. Listening and understanding familiar topics (weather).

2. Giving weather forecast based on clues; predicting about future weather using probably.

3. Reading and finding specific information.

4. Writing a short passage about the best time to visit your town, using because, so and but.

Ⅳ Teaching Objectives

1. Key vocabulary: mile, northwest, umbrella, southeast, from time to time

2. Keys sentences:

1) When’s the best time to visit the US?

2) The US is a very big country to visit.

3) So choose carefully the places to see and the time to go.

4) Bring a map because you may want to travel around.

5) New York and Washington DC are good places to visit in May or October.

6) The best time to visit New England is in September.

7) The weather gets cooler and the green leaves start to go gold, then brown.

8) It’s a good idea to bring your camera so you can take photos of autumn trees.

9) Take your swimming clothes because you might want to go swimming in the sea, even in December.

10) So when’s the best time to visit the US?

Ⅴ Teaching aids

Recorder, OHP, video

Ⅵ Teaching Steps

Step 1 Revision

Talk about the weather.

1) Show a China weather map.

2) Ask and answer:

What will the weather be like in …?

Step 2 Warming up

Work in pairs.

When’s the best time to visit your town or country? Why?

Step 3 Reading

1. Show some pictures about the weather of the cities and states in America.

2. Talk about what you can see in the pictures.

3. Talk something about the weather of the cities and states.

4. Introduce the new words.

5. Read the new words.

6. Play the recording and listen to the tape carefully.

7. Ask the students to read through the passage.

Step 4 Complete the table.

1. Read the passage again.

2. Complete the table in Activity 3.

3. Check with a partner.

4. Call back the answers from the whole class.

Keys:

1. Snowy    2. In May or October    3. Cool     4. In September    5. Fine 

6. Any time you like     7. Warm and cool    8. Cold     9. In summer

Step 5 Complete the sentences.

1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.

2. Ask the students to read through the sentences in Activity 4.

1) In autumn the leaves turn gold and then _____________.

2) It’s about 3,000 _____________ from the east coast to the west coast.

3) You might need a(n) _____________ in the evening.

4) Sometimes there are ____________ in summer and autumn on the southeast coast.

5) You will need a( n) ______________ in Seattle because it rains a lot.

3. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words from the box.

4. Check with a partner.

5. Call back the answers from the whole class.

Keys:

1. brown 2. miles  3. sweater 4. storm 5. umbrella