共4课时，约2430字。

　　Unit 6 It’s raining!
　　课题：Unit 6 It’s raining! 第1课时 共4课时
　　教学目标：Talt the weather and greet each other with a new structure.
　　A new way of greetings and asking about the weather is quite a common greeting
　　western countries.
　　重点：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？
　　难点: A new way of greetings and the description words about the weather.
　　How’s the weather? It’s raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/.
　　How’s it going? Great! /Not bad! /Terrible! /Pretty good!
　　教具准备：准备世界地图,表格及天气预报录音带。
　　施教日期：  年  月 日
　　教学过程：
　　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?
　　3. Practice with the new structure by the whole class: Choose one to the front and the others guess the description words through his/her facial expressions.
　　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. Maess 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.
　　2. Point out the numbered list of description words. Say each one and ask Ss to repeat the words again. Then ask Ss to match each word with one of cities in the picture. Check the answers.
　　3. Play the tape and get Ss to write the city names in the boxes. Check the answers. Look at the 5 pictures in 1a. Encourage Ss to use the description words to describe the weather: 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.