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冀教版英语七年级上册第七单元教案
Unit 7 Days and months
Lessen 49:Seasons and Months
Target language
1. Words and phrases
March, April, May, June, July, August, autumn, September, October,
November, December, January, February, weather, windy, sunny, cloudy,
snowy, rainy, season, month, spring, summer, winter
2. Key sentences
There are four seasons in a year.
How is the weather? It’s …
What weather do you like?
3. Ability goals
Enable students to say the twelve months, the four seasons and talk about
different weather.
4. Learning ability goals
Help students learn about different seasons and weather. Teaching impertinence: Learn the names of twelve months and four seasons Teaching difficulty: Grasp the way of talking about the weather Teaching methods : the Situational Approach
Teaching aids: Pictures, cards and tape recorder.
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Teaching procedures & ways
Step I Lead-in
Use a beautiful wall calendar to teach the twelve months one by one: January, February, March, April, May, … (Show Ss cards for months.) Ask Ss repeat them.
Then ask: How many months are there in a year?
Help Ss try to answer: There are twelve months in a year.
Step II Game
What’s missing? Put up the twelve months in the front of the classroom. Tell Ss to look at the twelve months for one minute and then close their eyes. Remove a picture.
Ask Ss to open their eyes and try to figure out which month you have removed. Call on individual Ss to answer with the removed month until one answer correctly.
Then the student who answered correctly hides a picture and leads the guessing.
Step III Presentation
Show Ss different beautiful pictures.
First show pictures of green trees, green grass, flowers that come out, melting snow...
T: Every year we can see these things. We call this period “spring”. (Write it on
the Bb and let Ss read it.)
Then show pictures of girls who wear skirts, boys who wear shorts, old men with fans, swimming children in the pool...
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T: You must be familiar with these pictures. We call this period “summer”.
(Write it on the Bb and let Ss read it.)
Teach “autumn” and “winter” with the same way.
At last, make a easy dialogue
T: How many seasons are there in a year?
S: There are four seasons in a year.
Step IV An activity
What season? Use this game to remember seasons. Put clothes in the front of the classroom that is appropriate for different seasons. When you call out a season, volunteers race for the appropriate clothes to pick out. For example:
Winter—winter scarf, gloves, winter hat
Spring—umbrella, rain boots, rain jacket
Summer—shorts, T-shirt, sunglasses
Autumn—sweater, jacket, pants
Step V Discussion
(1) When is spring / summer / autumn / winter?
(2) How is the weather in spring / summer / autumn / winter? (Write the
sentence on the Bb and explain it to the class. Tell them you can say it in another way: What’s the weather like?)
Ask the Ss discuss them in groups according to their experience and feelings to get the final result:
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(1) Spring (March, April and May); summer (June, July and August); autumn (September, October and November); winter (December, January and February).
(2) It is hot and sunny / rainy in summer.
It is cool and cloudy in autumn.
It is cold and snowy in winter.
Write the words about weather that Ss talk of on the Bb. Have Ss repeat and try to remember them.
Step VI Listening
Let Ss listen to a short passage about weather twice. Then answer some Qs in oral:
How is the weather in spring / summer / autumn / winter? (It is warm and windy / hot and sunny / cool and cloudy / cold and snowy.)
What weather does Danny like? (He likes rainy days.)
Step VII Presentation
Ask and answer with Ss, then Ss can do it in pairs.
T: What weather / season do you like? / Which month do you like?
S: I like rainy days / summer / August.
T: Why?
S: Because ……
Step VIII Homework
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Exercises:
I. Complete the following sentences.
1. It’s raining now. Today is _____.
2. It’s snowing now. Today is _____.
3. The first month of the year is ______.
4. ______ is the fifth month.
5. A: How is the weather in January?
B: It’s _____ and _____.
II. Change the following sentences.
7. I feel very cold. (对划线部分提问)
______ ______ you ______ ?
8. It’s very cold today. (对划线部分提问)
______ is the ______ today?
9. February is the second month. (同义句)
The ______ ______ of the year is ______. 10. How is the weather? (同义句)
______the weather ______ ?
Suggested answers:
1. rainy; 2. snowy; 3. January; 4. May; 5. cold, snowy; 6. warm, rainy; 7. How do,
feel; 8. How, weather; 9. second month, February; 10. What’s, like.
Black design:
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Lessen 49:Seasons and Months
March, April, May--------------spring
June, July, August-------------summer
September, October, November---autumn,
December, January, February----winter windy, sunny, cloudy, snowy, rainy----weather
----How many seasons are there in a year? -----When is spring / summer / autumn / winter?
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Lesson 50:What’s the Date?
Target language
1. Words and phrases
date, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth,
yesterday, tomorrow, race, first, second, third, was
2. Key sentences
What’s the date?
It’s October 19th.
The boy in red shorts is third.
3. Ability goals
Enable students to say and write dates correctly.
4. Learning ability goals :Help students learn ordinal numbers. Teaching impertinence: The usage of ordinal numbers.
Teaching difficulty: Talking about the date
Teaching methods : Suggestopedia
Teaching aids:Cards about dates, calendar and pictures of stars. Teaching procedures & ways
Step I Revision
(1) Ss talk about the pictures which were used in the last period in pairs:
S1: What can you see in the picture? S2: I can see …
S1: What season is it? S2: It’s …
S1: How is the weather in …? S2: It’s …
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(2) An activity.
This game works for as many as twenty to twenty-five Ss. Repeat the game so everyone has a turn. Prepare a set of vocabulary cards you want to review (the twelve months, the four seasons and different weather).
Give each student a card. Do not let Ss stand beside each other. Spread them out in the classroom. When you say Go! the Ss all begin saying the word on their
vocabulary card over and over again.
a. They must move to find the other Ss in the classroom who are saying the same
type of word over and over.
b. Or they may form groups like this: spring — March, April, May — warm,
windy.
Step II Lead-in
Point to the twelve Ss with the month cards at the front of the classroom:
T:How many months are there in a year?
Ss: There’re twelve months in a year.
T: Let’s say them together.
Ss: January, February, March, April, …
T: Good. January is the first month of the year. The second month is February.
The third month is March. … (Show the cards with ordinal numbers. Have Ss
repeat them a few times.)
Step III Grammar Focus
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T: One, two, three, … we call them cardinal numbers. First, second, third, … we
call them ordinal numbers. They often end with “th”. They are used as not only ordinal numbers, but also adjectives or adverbs. They are usually used together with “the”, but sometimes with “a” or without an article.
Pay attention to the following words:
One—first; two—second; three—third; five—fifth; nine—ninth;
twelve—twelfth.
Step IV Presentation
Use a Chinese calendar to practise:
T: Look here! What’s the date today? (Have Ss repeat it and tell them to
answer with “it is…”.)
Ss: It’s November 18th.
T: What’s the date tomorrow?
Ss: It is November 19th.
T: What was the date yesterday? (“Yesterday” shows we should use “The
Simple Past Tense”. “Was” is the p.t. of “is”. )
Ss: It was November 17th.
Tell Ss that: They can write the first three letters of each month for short. For example: November 18th—Nov. 18th, July 20th—Jul. 20th.
Then ask some Ss to be teachers and show the others cards with dates. Let Ss say the dates correctly:
S1: What’s the date?
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S2: It’s …
Step V Competition
Divide the class into four groups. Ask one student to say ten dates quickly. The
others write them down. Who writes down the most is the winner. Step VI Presentation
Show a picture on the blackboard:
T: How many Ss can you see in the picture?
Ss: Three.
T: What are they doing?
Ss: They’re running.
T: Yes, they’re running. We call it “race”. (Have Ss repeat it.) Who is first /
second / third?
Ss: … (Chinese is OK.)
T: The boy in a blue T-shirt is first.The girl is second.The boy in red shorts is
third.
“In” here means “wearing”. We often use “in” like this:
The woman in black (= in black clothes) is his mother.
The girl is in red (= in red clothes.).
Ss make up sentences like the examples above. Then practise like this, using the
picture on the screen or other pictures of stars:
S1: Look! Who is the girl?
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S2: Which girl?
S1: The girl in blue.
S2: She is Li Yuchun.
Step VII Homework
Finish Ex I. Part B on Page 69. Exercises:
I. Complete the following sentences. 1. July is the ______ month of the year. 2. How is the w______? It’s hot.
3. Today is hot and s______.
4. In J______ the weather in China is cold and s______.
II. Form the sentences.
1. today, is, date, what, the
___________________
2. talk, phone, I, the, my, on, with, friend
_______________________________
3. windy, cloudy, is, and, weather, the
____________________________
4. race, first, the, is, in, the, he
_ _____________________
Suggested answers:
I. 1. seventh; 2. weather; 3. sunny; 4. January, snowy; 5. November.
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II. 1. What’s the date today?
2. The girl in a yellow shirt is the second. 3. I talk on the phone with my friend. 4. The weather is windy and cloudy. 5. He is the first in the race.
Blackbord design:
Lesson 50:What’s the Date?
Cardinal ordinal date yesterday, tomorrow, race, first one
second two ----What’s the date today?
third three ----It’s November 18th.
fourth, four ----What’s the date tomorrow? fifth, five ---- It is November 19th.
sixth, six ----- What was the date yesterday?
seventh, seven ----- It was November 17th. eighth, eight
ninth, nine
tenth, ten
eleventh, eleven
twelfth, twelve
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