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Unit6 It’s raining! Period One (Section A 1a, 1b, 1c, + Section B 1a, 1b) Ⅰ. Teaching aims 1. Knowledge ①Words:rain,windy,cloudy,sunny,snow,weather,Moscow,Boston,how’s,bad,terrinle,pretty, cool, cold, humid, warm, hot ②Sentence structures: How’s it going? How’s the weather? What’s the weather like? 2. Ability: Talk about the weather and greet each other with a new structure. 3. Cultural awareness: A new way of greetings and asking about the weather is quite a common greeting in western countries. Ⅲ.Difficult points: How’s the weather? It’s raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/. How’s it going? Great! /Not bad! /Terrible! /Pretty good! ⅥTeaching procedures Step1. Warming up 1. Ask the Ss randomly: What’s the date today? What day is it today? How are you? 2. Give a new expression which has the same meaning as How are you? : How’s it going? But the new one has more answers. Step2. Presentation 1. Show 4 faces on the screen and ask Ss to describe each face using whatever words they can. Help Ss identify each person is feeling. 2. Then show 4 words. Say the words and ask Ss to repeat each one. Ask Ss to match each remembered phrase with a face. Encourage them to spell the phrases by How do you spell it? Step3. Presentation 1. Let one student ask me: How’s it going? I may answer like this: Terrible! Because it’s snowing and it’s so cold. Show a picture of snowing day and children are making a snowman and pretend to be very cold. Make Ss guess the words: the weather and snowing. Ask them: How’s the weather? Get them to answer like: It’s snowing/snowy. Go on with other kinds of weather: sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy. ①Beijing—sunny and warm/hot ②Shanghai—cloudy and cool ③Boston—windy and cool ④Moscow—snowing and cold ⑤Toronto—raining and humid. Show an arrow to identify the degree of the 4 adjectives: cold, cool, warm and hot. 4. Practice with the structures: How’s the weather? and What’s the weather like? with the 5 pictures The exact weather on that day sh