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Target language

1.Words & phrases

cloud， shower， storm， temperature， joke， might， probably， cloudy， fall， shine， terrible，

2.Key sentences

What will the weather be like？

And its cloudy too， so it might snow.

Itll probably be hot and sunny.

Come on， better get going！

Ability goals

Enable students to listen to and talk about weather.

Teaching important/difficult points

The usage of may， might and probably.

Teaching methods

Task-based learning.

Teaching aids

A projector， some pictures and a tape recorder

Teaching procedures and ways

Step I ： Lead-in

Show some pictures to help students learn some new words about weather.

Ask students to read the new words. Make sure they know the meaning of each word.

Then ask them to do activity 1.

Help students match the words with the symbols.

Step II： Listening

In this procedure， ask students to listen to the tape and check the correct information in the table. If the information is wrong， correct it.

Step III Reading

In this procedure， ask students to read the dialogue and do activity 5.

T： Read the dialogue again and do activity 5. Check the answers. Lets have a competition between boys and girls.

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Step IV Language points

1. joke

joke作动词， 意为"开玩笑"。

（1） Youre joking！表示对某人所说的话表示不相信或惊讶， 也可以说“You must be joking！ ”。

（2）joke with sb. 意为“和某人开玩笑”。如：He often jokes with me.

（3）joke about sth. 意為“就某事开玩笑”。如：Peter often jokes about my mistakes.

joke还可作名词， 意为“笑话;玩笑”， 为可数名词。tell jokes意为“讲笑话”;make jokes about意为“取笑…”， 相当于laugh at。如：The teacher often tells jokes in class.

2. probably

probably是副词， 意为“很可能地;大概”，它所表示的可能性比较大， 表示有充分的依据、合乎情理或有望实现。如：

It will probably clear up this afternoon.

3. What … like …？

What … like？ 相当于how。如：

— Whats the story like？ （= Hows the story？） 这个故事怎么样？

— Its very interesting.

4.better get going！ 好了，走吧。

better get going 相当于had better go，

Wed better get going （= go now）， or well be late.

Step V Pronunciation and speaking

In this procedure， ask students to listen to the tape and help students find out the different connotation of different of intonation.

After listening， ask students to read these sentences loudly and then decide if the speaker is asking a question or showing surprise.

Check the answers.

Speaking

Ask students to work in pairs and give a forecast for China according to activity 2.

T： In this lesson， we have learnt many different types of weather. We can use some words to describe the weather. Lets report a weather forecast for China according to activity 2. Now work in pairs and make a weather forecast. We can use may， might， probably to describe something we are not very certain of.

Ask some pairs to show their report before the class.

One sample version：

Itll probably be cold tomorrow.

Step VI Homework

1.Ask the students to learn and remember the new words and expressions of this unit.

2.Recite the dialogue.

3.make up their new conversation according to the dialogue of unit 1.