Module 11 The weather

MODULE 11

Unit 1

It may be cold tomorrow.

Speaking

sunny cloudy

windy

rainy

snowy

-7~1ºCHow’s the weather in Beijing?

What’s the temperature?

storm5~8ºC

How’s the weather in…?

What’s the temperature?

wind-1~14ºC

showers17~20ºC

Ok! Look, what will the weather be like?Ok! Look, what will the weather be like?

England

It may be ( ) and ( ) in England.

Ok! Look, what will the weather be like?Ok! Look, what will the weather be like?

Beijing

It might be ( ) and ( ) in Beijing.

Ok! Look, what will the weather be like?Ok! Look, what will the weather be like?

Australia

It might be ( ) and ( ) in Australia.

Ok! Look, what will the weather be like?Ok! Look, what will the weather be like?

Hong Kong

It may be ( ) and ( ) in Hong Kong.

Australia

Beijing

England

Hong Kong

4. Listen and answer: What will the weather be

like in these places?

5.Complete the table with the weather forecast for Spring Festival.

Beijing

England

Australia

Hong Kong

cold ， freezingwet ， windyhot ， sun

dry

Check the true sentences.1.It’s always cold and wet in February in England.

2.It’s often freezing in February in England.

3.It always warm and dry in winter in England.

4.There’ll sometimes be snow in winter in England.

5.It’s usually hot in February in Australia.

6.It sometimes isn’t warm in winter in Hong Kong.

7.It’s always too hot in the USA.

8.It’s usually dry in winter in Hong Kong.

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Say what the weather might or might not be like.

It will be …/It will probably be …

Say what the weather might or might not be like.It will be …/It will probably be …

Say what the weather might or might not be like.

It will be …/It will probably be …

Say what the weather might or might not be like.

It will be …/It will probably be …

Say what the weather might or might not be like.

It will be …/It will probably be …

Say what the weather might or might not be like.It will be …/It will probably be …

Say what the weather might or might not be like.

It will be …/It will probably be …

Say what the weather might or might not be like.

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Say what the weather might or might not be like.It will be …/It will probably be …

Pair work: 1. What will the weather be like?

2. What will the temperature be?

1.When the sun comes out, it’s____.2.When there are some clouds, it’s_____.3.When it’s raining, it’s______.4.When it’s snowing, it’s______.5.When the wind is blowing(吹 ), it’s_____.

sunnycloudy

rainy

snowywindy

Write the correct adjectives in the blanks.Write the correct adjectives in the blanks. Model: What heavy Model: What heavy rainrain! ! It`s very It`s very rainyrainy today. today.

Look at theLook at the sunsun! It may be! It may be today!today! sunny sunny

Look at theLook at the cloudcloud! It may be! It may be today!today!cloudycloudy

What aWhat a windwind!! It may beIt may be today.today.windywindy

Look at theLook at the rainrain!! It may beIt may be day.day.rainyrainy

Exercises

Homework:

1. Copy the new words.

2. Read the conversation (Part 4).

3. Listen to the weather in our country and talk about it in class tomorrow.

Teaching Aims and Demands:1. Language knowledge:

Key vocabulary: swimsuit, northwest, umbrella, pleasant, southeast, from time to time, compared

Key structure: Bring a good map because…

2. Reading skill: (1) Get information about the best time to visit the USA.(2) Improve students’ reading ability.

Teaching Aids: Multi-Media, a tape recorder.

Unit 2 Reading and vocabularyUnit 2 Reading and vocabulary

2. Let the students give the weather forecast for the different places in Jiaxing( they must prepare it last night).

It’ll be…

设计意图：通过设置让学生当一次小天气预报员用书本中学到的语言来解决生活中的实际问题，能够调动起学生的积极性，并且复习了前一个单元的内容。

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Warming-up1. Get the students to watch a flash of an English song about the weather. Make them lose themselves in it and get interested in this lesson.

Step 2 Talking

1. Show the students some pictures of the USA, Let them talk about the picture, and find out there different places with different kinds of weather in the pictures.

2. If we want to visit the USA, when is the best time? Get the students to discuss in groups of four.

3. Students give their own ideas.

设计意图：在学习之前，先检查学生原先拥有的知识的量，有力于教师更好的进行下一步的教学，也很好地煅炼了学生的思维能力和语言表达能力。

1. Divide the class into four groups. Tell them they will listen to a passage and they must tell us what the passage is about, the more the better. The group which can tell the most information is the winner.

2. Make students listen to the tape and tell what they’ve heard.

3. Teach the new words and do Activity 3. If the students find it a little difficult they can refer to the book. Make Ss read the passage quickly to find out the answers.

4. Ss read the passage once more, and find out what they can’t understand, solve the problems in pairs or in groups.

Step 3 Listening and reading

设计意图：这个环节主要功能是提高学生的听力，阅读能力和理解能力，并且让学生找到自己不理解的地方然后再想办法解决。

Step 4 Have a try!1. Read the advice and explain why.( activity 3)

Bring an umbrella. Because it might rain.

1) Wear warm clothes.

2) Buy a good map.

3) Bring a swimsuit.

4) Bring your camera.

camera map swimsuit umbrella

2. Complete the sentences. (Activity 2)

The good places to visit in May or October are New York and Washington D.C.

1) September is ______________ to New England.

2) It’s ______________ your camera.

3) A good reason to visit California in December is

____________ the Sun.

4) Alaska is ______________ in July and August.

5) In the evening it’s ______________ some warm clothes.

6) ______________ the USA is any time you like!

1. If there is a chance that you can visit a place, which place you like to go best? When do you want to go there? Why? 2. Interview the members in your group and fill in the

form.

Step 5 Make a survey

Name Where do you want to go?

When do you want to go there?

Why?

3. Give a report for the survey in the class.

设计意图：在学习刚才的短文的基础上，让学生在这个环节进一步巩固知识，将知识内化；并将课本上所学到的知识延伸到课外，让学生充分发挥自身的想象力，提高学生的语言表达能力。

Step 6 Writing

1. Show the students a picture of Jim.

2. Your pen friend Jim is in the USA now, he wants to come to see you here, can you give him some advice for visiting your town and give the reasons.

3. Discuss it with your partner then write it down. You can use because, so and but.

Step 7 Homework

1. Write down the advice in step 6.

2. Retell the passage.

Unit 3 Language in use

warm

summer

hot

autumn

cool

winter

very coldfreezing

How many seasons / months are there in a year?What are they?

Listening part

Complete the sentences.

1. There’s a lot of ________. It’s cloudy.

2. The weather is snowy and there’s a lot of ________ in the park.

3. The Sun is shining. It’s very ________ and hot today.

4. The wind is very strong. It’s so ________ that it’s difficult to walk.

5. There was a bad ________. The weather is stormy.

cloud

snowsunny

windy

storm

It’s very difficult to depend on the weather in Britain because it changes a lot. (1) _____________ with countries like Mexico, Egypt or India, it’s really very (2) ____________. You can’t plan to have a barbecue very easily, even in summer -- it (3) _____________ rain! From (4) ___________ to time, you get several days of good (5) ___________. Everybody loves it! But usually, there’s a (6) _______ of rain, especially in (7) _____________. It doesn’t snow very often but people always hope it’ll snow at Christmas.

Compared

coldmighttime

weather lot

winter

Complete the passage with the words in the box.

cold, compared, lot, depend, might, time, weather, winter

It’s very difficult to depend on the weather in Britain because it changes a lot.

Look and learn

It doesn’t snow very often but people always hope it’ll snow at Christmas. So I think it’s very nice to snow at Christmas.

动词不定式作主语时 , 多采用 It is … to do sth. 的句式。其中， it 为形式主语，动词不定式（ to do sth. ）为真正主语，作表语的可以是形容词，也可以是名词。

to bringto visitto

wearto swimto go

wearssee

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box.bring, go, see, swim, visit, wear

1. It’s a good idea ______________ an umbrella.

2. The best time ______________New York is in October.

3. It’s very important _________________ warm clothes when it’s freezing.

4. It’s nice ________________ in the sea.

5. It’s great fun _______________ on holiday.

6. When it’s sunny, he ______________ sunglasses.

7. We’d better go and __________ the famous Water Park while we are in Tianjin.

It’s great fun to play games.

Work in pairs. Complete the sentences in your own words.

It’s a good idea…. It’s very important …

The best time … It’s nice…

It’s great fun…

1. It will ________ rain tomorrow.

2. It ________ be cold and wet in London in January.

3. It’s ________ freezing in Moscow in winter.

4. Is it ________ to visit Alaska in winter?

5. Mary ________ go to New England in fall.

It’s great fun to play this game. But it may be dangerous to play it.

Complete the sentences with possible, probably or may.probably

mayprobablypossible ma

y

Do you understand the words may, might, possible, possibly, probably?

might 是 may 的过去式，但表示可能性时没有很大区别，只是表示一般将来的可能性时， might 比 may 的可能性要小。因为 might 和 may 都是情态动词，所以，他们后面应加动词原形，即 might/may + do sth.

possible ， possibly ， probably 使用时应该按 以下要求表示：

It is possible that .... It is possible to do sth. Subject + will probably/possibly + do sth. probably 表示的可能性比 possibly 要大。

Work in pairs. Say what you usually do, then say what you might do.

1. this evening 2. at the weekend 3. in the holidays

I usually do my homework but I might watch a programme on TV this evening.

Around the world

Which is the wettest place in the world?

Read the email again. How does Sally Marks start and finish the

message?

Homework 1.Write a message to a friend who wants to visit China.

2.Workbook, Pages 154-155, Reading and writing & Self- assessment.