Learning aims: 1.Tag question

2. Say something about four seasons

3. Improve the oral English

Teaching steps:

Step 1 Revision

1. the fifth day of the week Friday

2. the day before Wednesday Tuesday

3. the last month of the year December

4. the first month of the year January

5. the month before June May

6. the month after February March

7. the season lasts from June to August summer

8. the season in which the weather is very cold winter

Step 2 Look &say

T: Most of the exercises are about months and seasons. There are twelve months in a year, and four seasons in a year, which season do you like best, why?

S: say sth about their favourite season

T: There are some pictures here can you say sth them?

S: Say sth about the pictures after such questions:

① What’s the weather like?

② What do people do?

③ Which season do you like best?

Step 3 Read &act

T: just now we talked about the scene, people’s activity and the weather. Let’s see what the weather is like in Sydney?

Open the books , play the tape.

S: Listen to the tape, answer the question.

Raise some problems if any.

Act the dialogue out .

Step 4 Presentation

T: In the dialogue there is sentence “The weather is cold, isn’t it ?”

What kind of the sentence is it?

S: Tag question

T: Show the sentences of Part 2 in the book , have students find the similarities.

S:前半部分句子用肯定形式，那后半部分句子用否定形式。

前半部分句子用否定形式，那后半部分句子用肯定形式。

后半部分句子是簡短的一般疑問句，謂語動詞同前面的一樣，如果前面只出現行為動詞，則找出相應的助動詞構成一般疑問句。

Step 5 practice

1. You’re from Australia , aren’t you ?

2. The weather in China now is very cold, isn’t it?

3. It is summer in Australia now, isn’t it?

4. Jim knows the way Australians speak, doesn’t he?

5. Han Mei knows little about the weather in Sydney, does she?

Step 6 Homework

Exercise 3 on the WB