一、教学背景 这一单元的中心话题是Describe the Progrhe weather is quite a common greeting in western countries。 ⅡImportant points: A new way of greetings and the description words about the weather. Ⅲ.Difficult points: How's the weather? It’s raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/. How’s it going? Great! /Not bad! /Terrible! /Pretty good! ⅥTeaching procedures Step1. Warming up 1。 Ask the Ss randomly: What’s the date today? What day is it today? How are you? 2。 Give a new expression which has the same meaning as How are you? : How’s it going? But the new one has more answers. Step2. Presentation 1。 Show 4 faces on the screen and ask Ss to describe each face using whatever words they can。 Help Ss identify each person is feeling。 2. Then show 4 words. Say the words and ask Ss to repeat each one. Ask Ss to match each remembered phrase with a face. Encourage them to spell the phrases by How do you spell it? 3. Practice with the new structure by the whole class: Choose one to the front and the others guess the description words through his/her facial expressions. Step3。 Presentation 1。 Let one student ask me: How’s it going? I may answer like this: Terrible! Because it’s snowing and it’s so cold。 Show a picture of snowing day and children are making a snowman and pretend to be very cold。 M