Unit 8  Spring is warm and nice.

  ask the students to do the exercise of 1b to consolidate the new words ( match the pictures with the words)

第二課時
step3.drill(8min)
  (1)listening
  let the students listen to the tape and make sure whether the following sentences are right or not.
   1) a boy is flying a kite .
   2) the weather today is nice and cold.
   3) the weather here yesterday is cloudy.
  there is a difficult point in the dialogue : the phrase “nice and”doesn’t mean 又好又…
  through an example , maybe we can know it
  how is the weather in spring ?
  it’s very warm ,it’s nice and warm..
  (2)reading
  ask the students to read the text 2a and do the exercise of 2b, get them try to guess the meaning of “l(fā)owest” “from……to …..”then ask them to make some sentences by using it.

step4. practice (8min)
  (1)reading aloud
  ask the students to read together, and then read in rolls.
  (2)make a dialogue
  ask the students to make up a dialogue by using the key words in 1c.

step 5.consolidation (8min)
  ask some students to come to the front to talk about the weather and temperature in their own hometown by using the new words and sentence structures they have just learned. maybe the teacher can talk at first.

step6. assigning  homework.

第三課時
teaching aims:
1. grasp the words：
 spring, summer, autumn and winter.
2. learn to say and use the sentence patterns
  __ it’s spring .
  __it’s warm in spring .
  __we go cycling in spring .
3 read and act the conversation  .
teaching aids :mcai , tape–recorder and headdress .
teaching  steps :
partⅰ: greeting .
t: hello ! boys and girls !
ss: hello ! miss wu !
t: how are you ?
ss: i’m fine ,thank you ! and how are you ?
t: i’m fine ,too .nice to meet you !
ss: nice to meet you ,too !
partⅱ: warming-up and revision :
1.sing a song :“i can sing rainbow”
2. free talk:
t: what do you do at the weekend ?
s: i go cycling .
t: what do you do at the weekend ?
s: i play football .
part ⅲ presentation :
step 1: learn to say .( the teacher put on headdress and act “season ”)
1.t: boys and girls! i’m season , i have four children :spring ,summer, autumn and winter .  look! they’re here .
t shows mcai :( trees germinate and grasses become green … children go cycling .)
t: spring is coming on . spring is warm .the tree is germinating , flowers open and grass become green. how beautiful spring it is! we go cycling in spring .
mcai shows “spring ”and pronounces  .the students read together.