Steps |
Teacher’s activity |
Students’ activity |
Preparation |
Brainstorm |
Show some pictures and guess the places |
Look at the pictures and give the answers |
Pictures or ppt. |
Task I pair work: talk about the places and the weather |
Aim |
Familiar with the new words |
1 |
Look at the pictures and know the name of the places |
Read |
Ppt. |
2 |
Read the new words in 1a and explain the meaning |
Read and remember |
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3 |
Use the sentence ‘how is the weather in Beijing?’ |
Answer the questions and learn |
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4 |
Make a sample: question and answer; let Ss do it |
Prepare their conversations |
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5 |
Move around the room and give support as needed |
Talk to each other |
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6 |
Ask some pairs to show their conversations |
Give their works or more expressions |
More sentence structures |
Task II: listening comprehensions: what are they doing? |
Aim |
Familiar with the new structure |
1 |
Look at the pictures in 2a and know their activities |
Look |
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2 |
Listen to the tape for two times and fill in the blanks |
Listen and give the answers |
Tape |
3 |
Move around the room and give some support |
Write the answers |
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4 |
Check the answer and point out the focus |
Check |
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5 |
Pair works to practice: what’s he doing? And answer it |
Make the pair work |
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Task III: group work:Is he playing soccer? |
Aim |
Familiar with the sentences |
1 |
Guess: what is he doing?
Is he …..?
How’s the weather? |
Listen to the rules of this game |
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2 |
Give some time and let them prepare to act |
Talk about how to act |
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3 |
Move around the room and give support |
Talk in groups |
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4 |
Ask one to act, other group guess, the winner group gets 1 point; |
Act and guess |
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5 |
Evaluate the best group in the class |
Choose the best group and the best actor |
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Homework |
Call your friend and ask him/her what his family members are doing, write a diary. |