Unit 7 It’s raining.第一课时New wordsTeaching and learning goals:Lead the students to learn the new words and phrases of Unit 7. The students learn them by reading andusing. Ask the students to memorize the words and phrases in this class. After learning words, the students canunderstand the story and learn the best ways to read and remember the words and phrases.Teaching and learning steps:Step 1：Learn to read the words on page19-24.1. Open your books to Page 127, read the new words by yourselves according to the phonetics symbols and underline the difficult words.2. Now you can discuss the difficult words in groups and try to get the pronunciation right.3. I’ll ask one student to read the new words. If the student’s pronunciation is wrong, you can offer to stand up to correct it at once. For the most difficult words that you can’t read, I’ll teach you.4. Listen to the tape and read after it twice, and then you read aloud once looking at the Chinese meanings in guide book .(设计意图：对于七年级的学生尤其农村中学的学生来说，一定要让学生学会利用音标读单词，通过半学期多的练习学生已初步具有这种能力。
不再像刚开始那样死记硬背，逐渐学会了自己先根据音标读单词，并标出有困难的单词。
接着两人一组或以小组为单位解决遇到的困难。
经过长期的练习，有些学生不用音标也能读出单词。
作为老师一定要在课堂内多巡视，及时帮助英语上有困难的学生。
)Step2:Learn to remember words on page37-42.I believe you can read the words now, next we learn to remember them in different ways as usual. 一．Remember the words by looking at pictures.Talk about the weather.It’s / .cloudyIt’s .It’s .It’s / .It ’s .ShanghaiBostonBeijingMoscowWeather ForecastGood morning, ladies and gentlemen! Here is the weather forecast! Today is Wednesday .Beijing is . Boston is .Moscow is .And it is cold.Shanghai is .skate wintersnowysnowman Russian rainy(1) Do you like ?(滑冰)(2) It’s in . Let’s make a .（冬天下雪，让我们堆雪人吧。
）(3) They are .（俄罗斯人）（设计意图：在具体的语境中,利用图片教授新词，直观形象，既记住了单词，又学会了单词的用法,使其轻松地把英语和汉语对应起来,达到了轻松愉快学习的目的。
）二. Remember the words by matching itself with their similar meaning.cook not goodbad make dinnerproblem in a minutesoon questionhard take a holidayon a vacation difficultagain phone sb backcall sb back once morecould pass a message to sbtake a message be able tocountry nation（设计意图：通过英语释义让学生猜测新词组的含义，然后让学生根据其意思连线，以此给学生提供根据英语释义记忆单词的语境，培养学生在语境中学习新词的能力，以旧带新，符合学生语言的认知规律。
）三. Remember the words by their similar pronunciations and forms.1. n e ver--e very--m e ssage [e]2. sw ea ter--w ea ther [e]3. pr a ctice--h a ve--b a ck [æ]4. p ar k—h ar d—sm ar t—m ar ket—f ar [a:]四. Remember the words by conversion(转换) 、complex words （合成）and derivative（派生）1. America n. 美国--American n/adj美国人，美国人的Australia n.澳大利亚--Australian n/adj澳大利亚人，澳大利亚人的Russia n.俄罗斯--Russian n/adj俄罗斯人，俄语，俄罗斯的2. rain n. + y rainy adjwind n. + y windy adjsnow n. + y snowy adjcloud n. + y cloudy adjsun n. + y sunny adj请认真观察，以上表示天气的形容词，有什么规律呀？（设计意图：通过不同形式教学单词能引起学生的兴趣，不再那么枯燥乏味。
经过半学期的练习，发现有些学生也能够根据规律自己去总结，如词性的变换，相似的发音及组成。
）Step 3：Consolidation of words.Now, I’ll test your memories. Good luck to you!1．You say out English by looking at the Chinese meanings in the guide book.2．And then you write down the words looking at the Chinese meanings in the guide book .3. Next check in pairs. Underline the words you haven’t grasped and memorize them again.4. Finally you spell the words you haven’t grasped in pairs.（设计意图：通过以上几个步骤的巩固，绝大多数学生基本上能掌握，这样就为下一个环节的读和理解故事做了充分的准备。
对于个别不会的利用自习课或课余的时间让组长进行检查，力争全部过关。
) Step 4 Read a story and translate. Then try to remember the new words. Finally, tell this story to your friends or your family. Next morning let each group tell this story to the class.It’s summer now, the weather is sunny and hot, so I want to go to the park to drink juice. I call my cousin,but he’s busy cooking, so I ask his sister to take a message for him,“Could you tell him to call me back soon?” She says,“No problem.” After a while, the weather is bad, first it’s cloudy and windy, then it begins to rain hard. I don’t like to go out on rainy days. So I have to sit down to watch TV again. It plays something about vacation. Canada is warm and dry. Many people want to visit it. Some people are on a vacation in a mountain. They feel cool. In some countries of Europe, it’s winter now, it’s cold and snowy. Some Russian people are skating, some boys are making a snowman. They’re having a good time.汉语译文：现在是夏天，天气晴朗而炎热，所以我想去公园喝橘汁。
我给表弟打电话，可是他正忙着做饭，所以我让他的妹妹给他捎口信，“你能告诉他尽快给我回电话吗？”她说：“没问题。
”过了一会儿，天气变坏了，起初乌云密布，狂风大作，然后就开始下大雨。
我不喜欢雨天外出，所以只好再坐下来看电视。
电视上播放的是关于假期的内容。
加拿大温暖而又干燥。
很多人都想去那儿参观游玩。
一些人正在一座山上度假。
他们感觉很惬意。
在一些欧洲国家，现在是冬天，天气寒冷还下着雪。
一群俄罗斯人正在滑冰，而几个男孩正在堆雪人。