1. Unit 7 Listening & Speaking (A) What’s the Weather Like?

2. Warm- up What is the weather like? It’s …. cloudy sunny drizzly foggy snowy hailing

3. What is the weather like? It’s …. windy raining heavily lightning and thunder Warm- up

4. sunny cloudy snowy foggy drizzly hailing windy lightning and thunder raining heavily Warm- up 晴 多云 / 阴 雪 雾 毛毛细雨 冰雹 大风 闪电打雷 大雨

5. Warm up 18°C 18 degrees centigrade 8°C 8 degrees centigrade What is the temperature?

6. What’s the temperature? It’s …degree(s) centigrade. 0°C 24°C 42°C Warm up -18°C …degrees below zero.

7. What will the weather be like this afternoon? Listening It’ll be fine this afternoon. It’s going to be clear in the afternoon.

8. Task One Listen and find out the answers. Why is Sue worried about the weather? What does Billy think the weather will be like? Why? What does Sue say about the weather forecast? The football match. It’ll be fine this afternoon. Because the wind’s beginning to lift the fog up. It isn’t always accurate.

9. New Words The meeting is scheduled at 4:00 p.m. be scheduled at （做某事的时间）被安排在某时 schedule 安排，预定 ['sked ʒ u ː l] So what? So what do you want to do? Why do you worry about the weather? I wonder = I don’t know, but I want to know

10. Expressions I bet =I believe 我敢说 accurate ['ækjərət] =correct 正确的 lift up distance ['d ɪ stəns] 距离 a short distance 很短的距离

11. Read the dialogue after the speakers. Listening & Reading Read the dialogue with your partner. Find out expressions of talking about weather.

12. Speaking Questions & Answers of talking about weather: What’s the weather like today? What did it (the weather forecast) say? it’ll be fine this afternoon. It said it’s going to be foggy in the morning and clear in the afternoon, and the highest will be 18 degrees centigrade, the lowest 8 degrees. I bet

13. Speaking What’s the weather like? Ask & Answer It will be…It is going to be….

14. Speaking Ask & Answer It’s ________. What/How…? What…? It’s ________. 32°C

15. Speaking What does the weather forecast say? It says…

16. Review Translate the words into Chinese. 下毛毛雨的 有雾的 下冰雹的 闪电和打雷 好心情 安排 距离 准确的 我敢说 drizzly foggy hailing lightning and thunder good mood schedule distance accurate I bet

17. Review Translate the sentences into Chinese. 不知道今天下午会不会下雨。 我敢肯定今天下午会晴。 早上有雾，下午会放晴。 天气预报怎么说的啊？ 天气预报并不都是对的。 I’m wondering if it is going to rain this afternoon. I bet it’ll be fine this afternoon. It’s going to be foggy in the morning and clear in the afternoon. What does the weather forecast say? The weather forecast isn’t always accurate.

18. Homework Compulsory: 1.Copy the words and sentences. 2.Recite the model dialogue. Optional: 1.Make a dialogue, talking about the weather and your plans. 2. Collect sayings about the weather.