I. Teaching procedures

Step1. Warm-up

　　Greet the whole class.

Step2 Presentation

1. Lead-in

　　Listen to a song, lead-in the new lesson.

2. Show some pictures about the weather , teach the new words: rain, raingy,windy, cloudy, sunny, snow snowy.

Ask the students the question, "If we want to know about the weather, how do we ask?" to present the target languages "How's the weather? =What's the weather like?" Then show some pictures to practice.

Step3 Practice

1.Guessing game.

Guess the weather according to the things that Alice takes ,lead to the five cities in 1b.

2. Teach Activity 1a.

Ask Ss to match each word with one of cities in the picture. Check the answers.

3. Teach Activity 1b.

　　Play the tape and get Ss to write the city names in the picture of its weather. Check the answers.

　　Play the tape for the second time ,get Ss to fill in the blanks.

4. Pair work .

　　Let students imagine that they are in one of the places in 1a. Talk about the weather and what they are doing with their friends on the phone. Give them several minutes to practice the sentence structure.

Step4. Consolidation

Ask Ss to make weather report according to the picture.Give them several minutes to practice and then ask some Ss to present their weather reports .

Step5 Summary