Step 1 A duty report

T: What will you tell is today, student A?

S: Today I’ll tell you a funny story. Please listen to me carefully, I’ll ask you some questions after the story.

T: OK.

Step 2 Revision

T: What’s the date today?

S: It’s December the fifth.

T: What’s the weather like?

S: It’s very cold , but quite sunny.

T: How cold it is today!

S: Yes, but it’ll be warmer later on.

T: What a cold day!

S: Yes, and it’ll get colder, I’m afraid.

 

Step 3 Presentation

T: Let’s watch the video. It’s about how to make a phone, then you’ll watch several conversation by telephone. You’ll learn how the foreigners telephone the others in English.

T: All right. When you call somebody and introduce yourself, you should say:” This is --- or this is --- speaking.”  When you want to know who picks up the phone , you should ask “ Who’s that?”

 

Step 4 Listening

1 T: Now listen to the tape and try to understand it. I’ll ask two questions.

(1)              What’s the weather like in Xinjiang?

(2)              Why is the fruit is very sweet there?

Answer:

(1)              It’s cold in the morning but turns very warm at noon, it also very dry.

(2)              Because the weather.

2 Listen again and teach the new words :

 

ring, strange, sunshine, melon

 

 

Step 5 Practice

T: Open your books and read the dialogue.

Answer the following question according to the dialogue.

1.     What’s the relationship between Bruce and the person whom he is speaking to?

2.     Where is Bruce and where is Dad?

3.     What’s the weather like in Xinjiang and in Sydney?

4.     How about Bruce’s health, and what about his father?

5.     What kinds of fruit does Bruce like very much?

6.     What are his parents going to do?

7.     Are they very happy to talk by telephone?

Keys:

1.     They are son and father.

2.     Bruce is in Xinjiang, China , his father is in Sydney, Australia.

3.     It’s cold in the morning, but turns very warm at noon in Xinjiang. It’s warm and sunny in Sydney.

4.     Bruce is very well and his father is fine, too.

5.     He likes the grapes and melons very much.

6.     They are going to hike.

7.     Yes, they are.

（Now ask the students to prepare for several minutes and let them act out the conversation in pairs.）

 

Step 6  Part 2

1.     Teach the new words:

North, south, northeast, northwest, radio, report, at times, temperature, below-above.

 

 

2.T: Let’s do some exercises about the simple future tense , please fill in the blanks with the simple future tense.

Most of North and South China     (have) a cold wet day. It     (be)cloudy at times. There    be a strong wind to the north of the Huai River. The day after tomorrow    (be)Sunny.

   In the Northeast it     (be)fine. The temperature    (stay)above zero in the daytime, but at night it     (fall) below zero again. In the Northwest, there      (be)snow in the night. The snow    (be)very heavy in some places.

   Beijing     be rainy. The temperature         (be) 2 to 9. Tianjin     (be) cloudy and the high temperature will be.

Keys:

1.     will have 2.will be 3.will be 4.will be 5.will be

6.will stay 7.will fall 8.will be 9.will be 10.will be 11.will be 12.will be

 

Step 7 Presentation

T: We did one exercise about a radio report of the weather in Spring just now. Now let’s open your books and look at Part2, listen to the tape and read after it .

T: very good. Could you read it again?

 

Language points:

1.     most of

Most of Canada will have a fine day.

2.     at times

I go to the school library at times.

3.a strong wind

There is a strong wind in Beijing now.

4.stay above zero

The temperature will stay above zero in the daytime.

5.fall below zero

The temperature will fall below zero at night, let the students make a new one.

 

Step 8  Summary

Step 9  Homework

1.     Read the dialogue and the text freely.

2.     Make a radio report of the weather in winter.

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