8A Unit 6  Natural disasters   Vocabulary

Yin Caiping 

Teaching Objectives:

 To indentify the words and phrases to describe weather conditions

 To use vocabulary to talk about the weather forecast

Teaching procedures:

Step Lead-in:   

1. Play the flash “How is the weather?” 

T: A lovely song, isn’t it? Let’s sing it together. OK?

What kinds of weather did you see in the flash? (4 pictures)

The sun is shining in the sky. It is a sunny day. 

Spell “sun”--- “sunny”  (Read after T)

There are lots of clouds in the sky. It’s cloudy.

     Spell “cloud(s)” cloudy    It is a cloudy day.  (read)

snow(y)     rain(y)

Which weather do you like best? Why?

Topic: On sunny days, we can do…

Step 2: Presentation:

I like snowy days because I can wear my favourite scarves. But I dislike the frosty days. Look at the frost, when the temperature drops below 0℃. You may see frost on the leaves, especially in the early morning. (Teach “temperature”)  I think the frosty days are usually too cold, so I don’t like the frosty days But I don’t hate it.

I hate stormy days very much. Do you know why? I didn’t have a good time in the Yellow Mountain last year because of the storm. The weather was not too bad before we went to Huangshan. But when we got there, It was foggy at first, we can’t see everything clearly.Then it was windy, the wind is so strong that we all felt really cold. And the weather became worse when we were on the top of the mountain. It was stormy. The temperature drops a lot, too. I didn’t get enough clothes with me, so I’ve got a bad cold there. Do you think that’s lucky?

   I’ve told my unlucky trip to the Yellow Mountain to you. Now can you tell me the weather again? Try please.

wind---windy          storm---stormy      (sounds)

     frost--- frosty          fog---foggy

Step 3  Practise:

1.  Read the words after T.  

   2.  Now you have got the words about the weather. I’ll show some pictures to you, please tell me how the weather is in each picture.   

3.  A competition: Please tell the adjectives of the nouns as quickly as possible.

      Read them in pairs.  (answer one by one)

Step 4. Work out the rule:   

1. A. Watch carefully about the weather words. How do we change the nouns into adjectives?  Yes, we plus “y” after the nouns.    n. + y ---adj.  

B. But what about “fog” and “sun”? 

We double-write the last consonant and plus y.   (双写加)

2. A. Try to change these nouns into adjectives:  lucky; healthy; sporty

B. The following two words are a little difficult: noisy; tasty;…

     So if there is a silent “e”, we have to take away “e” and plus “y”. (去E加，)   

Step 5. Discussion:

1. You can change the nouns into adjectives easily. Of course there are some differences between nouns and adjectives. Let’s see more sentences.

      1) The sun is shining. Why not go out for a picnic on such a sunny day? (sun)

      2)  A: Be careful. The fog is thick.

         B: OK. I will. I usually drive carefully when it is foggy.

3) A: Look at the clouds in the sky.

          B: Yes, I think it’s going to rain. Tomorrow will be a rainy day.

      4) The wind blows strongly.The report says it will be windy tomorrow. (wind)

5) The radio says the tem perature will be around -2℃. It may be frosty

2. Do you often listen to the radio for the weather information? I often do. But what other ways can we know the coming weather? 

（Read newspaper; Watch TV; read newspaper Call 96121; Search on the internet….） 

Step 6. Presentation for the weather forecast:

Yesterday I searched on the Internet for the weather in the following 3 days.

Look carefully and let’s talk about it:

1. Model Dialogue:  A: How is the weather on Saturday?        

                 B: It will be cloudy.

            A: What about the weather on Sunday?

                 B: It will be snowy.

            A: Will it be…?

             B: …

the weather will be cloudy tommorow.

The temperature will drop to –5℃.

                be around0℃.

      2. Practise in pairs about the dialogue.

      3. Act out the dialogue for 2 pairs.

Step7. Practise the dialogue in the book:

1 Millie and Sandy are also looking at the weather forecast on the Internet. Please turn your books to P98 and complete their conversation.

2.      Have you finished? Who’d like to read the dialogue for us?

3.      Read the dialogue after T.

Step 8: . Try to give the weather forecast after the model:

Good morning. Here is the weather forecast. Tomorrow will be … and the temperature will … Thank you for listening.

Step 9.  A phone call for the weather information in Beijing：

  Please make a phone call with your partner:

   下周一我要去一趟北京，想先打电话给北京的朋友了解一下那里三天的天气情况，以便带合适的衣服等……

    Model: 

A: Hello. This is… Is that ….?    B: Yes. Speaking.

A: How are you?               B:

A: I’ll go on a trip to Beijing next week. How’s the weather there on Mon.?

B: It will be …. The temperature will…

A: What about…?              B:…

A: ….    

Step 10: Bad weather may cause natural disasters:

   “love our nature, love our environment”

Step 11. Homework:

Watch the weather forecast on CCTV-1 at 7:35. Describe the weather of 4 places in the coming 3 days. Fill in the table:

Step 12: Enjoy the song: