1. 冀教版 八年级下册
Class rules
When the teacher holds up her hand, be ready to listen and look at the teacher.
Today, we’re going to use ALL English!
Raise your hands to ask a question.

2. Your task today is to write a short weather report of your hometown and share it with the class
By the end of the class, you will be able to:
Identify(识别) the weather icons .
Talk about your weather chart.
Write a short weather report.
Share the weather report.

3. Let’s review: Brainstorming
weather

4. Here are some weather icons:

5. Let’s learn more words relating to write a short weather report:
Shower
Thunder
Thunderstorm
Sunrise
Sunset
compound words（合成词）

6. Grammar Focus light rain moderate rain heavy rain thunder shower
thunderstorm
Word Building
Compound words
sunrise
thunder shower
Derivative words
cloudy

7. Let’s Do It!

8. Let’s listen to a dialogue from your text.
Danny, Jenny and Brian are speaking.
Underline the related information about the weather report.（划出有关天气预报的信息）
What are the four weather elements?
（谈论天预报的四个要素）
the date
the weather
the temperature
the exact time of sunrise and sunset

9. Comprehension questions
Think-Pair-Share
What’s the date today?
What’s the weather like?
What’s the temperature?
What’s the exact time of the sunrise and sunset?
Friday，February 28.
Cloudy.
10℃.
The sun rose at 7:25 this morning and it will set at 6:09 this evening.

10. Let’s Do It!
Hello everyone. Here’s my weather report. Today is Friday, ________ 28. It is ________. The _________ will be 10°C during the day. It’s quite warm today. There will be a ________ this afternoon. Maybe there will be a ___________. Today, the sun rose at 7:25 a.m., and it will set at 6:09 p.m.
February
cloudy
temperature
shower
thunderstorm

11. Let’s Do It!
sunny
6:28 a.m.
August 22.
25℃
rainy
7:47 p.m.

12. Let’s get ready! Complete your weather chart.
Use the words from our list and your OWN ideas.

13. 3-day Weather Forecast Prediction Chart
City: Tangshan
Day
Date
Tue.
April 1st.
Wed.
Thur.
Weather
Temperature
21°C
Sunrise
time
5：53 a.m.
Sunset
6：29 p.m.

14. Let’s work on it!
Talk about your weather chart in pairs.
If you think there is something inappropriate, please correct it.（snowy and hot/cold, 18℃）
Write a one-day weather report.
the date, the weather, the temperature, the exact time of sunrise and sunset

15. We used：

16. Let’s fix our errors!
Today, the sun rise at 6:35 a.m., and it set at 7:30 p.m.
speaking
The Past
Now
The Future

17. 3-Day Weather Forecast of Tangshan
Temperature
Time
21℃
Sunrise：5:53
Sunset：18:31
18℃
Sunrise：5:51
Sunset：18:32
19℃
Sunrise：5:50
Sunset：18:33

18. Ok, now let’s try it again!
Example:
It’s time for the weather report. Today is… The temperature is…The weather will be…If you go out, please remember to… Today, the sun…, and it will… Thank you.

19. Does it have clear ideas?
Let’s do peer-editing!
Writing revision checklist
Questions
Your evaluation
Does it have clear ideas?
Yes
So-so No
How is the language?
Excellent
Good
Acceptable
How is the handwriting?

20. Homework: Rewrite your weather report.
Get on line to read the weather chart and write the weather report for each day for a week.
Share it every morning!
Think about this:
Is the weather report helpful？How can it help in our daily life?