Unit 7 The Birthday Topic 1 When is your birthdaySection D needs 1 period. Section D 需用1课时。
The main activities are 1, 2 and 6. 本课重点活动是1, 2和6。
Ⅰ.Aims and demands目标要求1.Learn the consonants:/ /, /♐/, / ♦/, /♦♦/2. Learn some new words and phrases:special, candle, surprise, do some cleaning3. Review the past simple tense with “was/were”.4. Review how to talk about dates.5. Review describing objects and features(shapes).Ⅱ. Teaching aids 教具单词卡片/录音机/日历表/MP3Ⅲ. Five-finger Teaching Plan 五指教学方案Step 1 Review 第一步复习(时间:5分钟)检查家庭作业，复习如何描述自己熟悉的物品，复习5b中描述形状的相关句型并完成3。
1. (检查家庭作业，让学生口头汇报自己所描述的自己熟悉的物品。
)T: We’ve known how to describe objects and shapes. Please show me your homework.Who wants to report it to us?(检查并及时纠正学生的不足。
)2. (复习5b中表达形状的句子。
)(教师出示一部MP3，复习询问形状的表达法。
然后学生用自己身边的物品进行有关物体形状的练习活动，可运用下列句子。
)What’s the shape of…?What shape is it?How long…?How wide…?What do we use it for?Example:T: What’s this?Ss: It’s an MP3 player.T: What shape is it?Ss: It’s a rectangle.T: How long is it?Ss: It’s … centimeters long.T: How wide is it?Ss: It’s … centimeters wide.T: What do we use it for?Ss: We use it to listen to music.3. (让学生听3录音，完成3。
)T: Now, let’s listen to 3 and fill out the form. Then check the answers.Step 2 Presentation 第二步呈现(时间:10分钟)呈现1，引出并呈现2。
1. (用单词卡片或简笔画呈现1的语音部分。
)(1)(教师指着黑板问。
)T: What color is it?Ss: It’s black.(教师出示一张夹克的图片或在黑板上画简笔画。
)T: What’s this?Ss: It’s a jacket.(教师用同样的方法呈现出单词: chicken, phone, photo, physics, quarter, square,并板书。
)(2)(让学生找出单词的发音规律。
)T: Now, let’s look at these words on the blackboard. Can you find some rules among “black, jacket and chicken”?S1: Yes, they all have the same sound“/ /”.T: Right.“ck”is usually pronounced“/ /”.(用同样的方法让学生找出其他三组单词的发音规律。
)T: Find the rules among“phone, photo and physics”,“quarter, square and quiet”, and “twelve, between and twins”.(3)(让学生听1的录音并跟读。
)T: Listen to the tape and follow it.(4)(教师随意抽取一张单词卡片，让学生迅速读出。
)T: I’ll show you some word cards. You must read them out as quickly as possible.(5)(学生四人一组，找出其他含有/k/, /f/, /kw/, /tw/的单词，然后向全班汇报，看哪一组找的单词最多。
)T: Work in groups of four. Find out other words with “ck” which pronounces the sound /k/. Let’s see which group can find out the most words.(让几个小组把找到的单词都板书在黑板上，老师也可以适当补充。
让学生掌握和巩固/k/, /f/, /kw/, /tw/的发音，并多了解单词。
)Example: /k/ quick clock back/f/ elephant laugh/kw/ quick quite/tw/ twenty two twenty-one2. (引出生日礼物。
)(1)T: We know the numbers and the expressions of the date. Oh, I remember todayis May 21st. Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday. My family plan to celebrate it. I want to buy a beautiful light blue dress for my mother. My father wouldlike to buy a birthday cake and some candles. That would be a surprise for my mother.(2)(请学生帮忙提建议，并引出一些动词短语。
)T: Can you give me some more advice on how to celebrate my mother’s birthday?(可把学生用到的另外一些动词词组板书在黑板上。
)(过渡到下一步。
)3. (呈现2。
理解短文内容。
)(1)(设置并板书限时快速阅读任务。
)T: Tomorrow is Mrs. Brown’s birthday. Mr. Brown and Mary are planning to celebrate(读完后, 回答问题。
然后核对答案。
)(2)(再次阅读短文，完成短文下面的判断题。
然后让学生找出短文中的关键词和短语，教师总结并板书，为下一步做准备。
)T: Read 2 again, do the exercise about the passage, and then underline the keyStep 3 Consolidation 第三步巩固(时间:5分钟)巩固2, 进一步理解课文, 复述课文。
1. (教师放2的录音, 让学生跟读。
)T: Listen to the tape and follow it.2. (让学生自读, 然后请几名学生在班上读。
)T: Read the text by yourselves. Then I’ll ask some students to read it for us.3. (根据第二步呈现在黑板上的关键词, 复述课文。
)T: Now please close your books, look at the key words and phrases on the blackboard and try to retell the text by yourselves.Step 4 Practice 第四步练习(时间:15分钟)通过练习，复习5a, 5b。
1. (复习日期表达法，即复习5b中列出的日期表达法。
))T: What day is it?Ss: It’s Wednesday.T: What’s the date today?Ss: It’s May 12th, 2010.(教师可多用几张日历，分组练习日期表达法。
)2. (复习5a重点语法中的一般过去时。
教师首先同一名学生对话作示范，然后同桌互相问答。
)T: When were you born?S1: I was born on/in…T: Where were you born?S1: I was born in…3. (操练be born相关句型及日期表达法。
)(链式游戏。
第一排学生转向第二排学生问：“When and where were you born?”第二排学生回答后转向第三排学生问, 如此操练直至最后一排。
)T: Let’s play a game. The students in Row 1 turn back to ask the students in Row 2, “When and where were you born?”The students in Row 2 answer and turn back to ask the ones in Row 3 the same question. Do it like this one by one until the last row, understand?(学生开始做游戏。
)T: Good job!Step 5 Project 第五步综合探究活动(时间:10分钟)利用所学内容进行实践活动。
1. (让学生四人一组做一个调查报告并向全班汇报: When were you born? Where were you born? What’s your favorite present? 完成6。
)T: Now, boys and girls, work in groups of four, make a survey, using the questions in 6, fill out the form, and then practice the conversation according to the information in the form.)T: You did a good job. Now please write a passage about how to celebrate your father’s/ mother’s birthday according to the phrases above, then I’ll ask some students to report them to us.Example:My mother was born on May 12th, 1969. Next Tuesday is her fortieth birthday.I would like to do some cleaning. I also want to sing a song and buy some flowers for her. My father wants to cook a big dinner to celebrate it. That would be a surprise for her.3. (家庭作业。
