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Lesson 31: What Strange Weather!
Ⅰ Teaching Aims:
1. Knowledge and Skills:
①Master the new words and structures :
strange, notice, wild, wake, surprised, become, dark, ski, snowball;
wake up, go away, good/great work, go swimming, go skiing, go skating,
go fishing, go boating, go surfing, go hiking, make a snowman, have
snowball fights, fly kites, plant trees, play in the rain, pick apples.
②Learn about exclamatory sentences.
2. Process and Methods:
① Learn to sum up grammar by themselves.
② Practice expressing themselves in English.
3. Emotional Attitude and Values:
Be interested in learning English and learn to cooperate with group
members through communication.
Ⅱ Teaching Emphasis and Difficulty:
1. Teaching Emphasis:
①Master these structures: go swimming, go skiing, go skating, go
fishing, go boating, go surfing, go hiking, make a snowman, have
snowball fights, fly kites, plant trees, play in the rain, pick apples.
②Learn about exclamatory sentences.
2. Teaching Difficulty:
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Learn about exclamatory sentences.
Ⅲ Teaching Appliance:
multi-media ; teaching slides
Ⅳ Teaching methods:
Task based learning
Ⅴ Periods:
One period
Ⅵ Teaching steps:
1. Review and lead in:
Enjoy an English song.
2. Look at the pictures and name the seasons.
3. Learn the new words and phrases:
strange, notice, wild, wake, surprised, become, dark, ski, snowball;
wake up, go away, good/great work, go swimming, go skiing, go
skating, have snowball fights.
4. Watch the video, read the text and fill in the table.
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5. Act out the text.
6. Look at the pictures and name the activities.
go skiing, go fishing, go boating, go surfing, go hiking, make a snowman,
have snowball fights, fly kites, plant trees, play in the rain, pick apples.
7. Write a short passage about your favourite season. Try using the
following phrases:
go swimming, go skiing, go skating, go fishing, go boating, go surfing,
go hiking, make a snowman, have snowball fights, fly kites, plant trees,
play in the rain, pick apples.
8. Put the words in the correct order.
What, girl, beautiful, a, she, is, ! _______________________________
tall, they, what, trees, are, ! _______________________________
water, it, is, what, clear, ! _______________________________
9. Sum up the sentence pattern and make some examples.
Exclamatory sentence which begins with “what”:
What+ (a/an)+ adj.+ n.+( S+ V)!
Ⅶ Homework:
1. Complete Let’s Do It! No.3 and No.4.
2. Write a passage about your favourite season and draw a picture to go
with it.
Ⅷ Moral education:
Spring is a great season for planting, and autumn is a harvest season.
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Thanks to the hard work in spring, people can have a good harvest in
autumn. So, if we want to succeed in the future, we must work hard now !