Unit 8 When is your birthday?Period 1 (Section A 1a–2e)【教学目标】●知识目标1. Master the new words and useful expressions.2. Master the target language.●能力目标Get students able to talk about one's birthday.●情感目标Get students to know that time passes away fast and we should cherish them. 【教学重难点】●重点1. Master the new words and useful expressions.Words and expressions: when, month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, happy, Happy birthday!2. Master the target language:—When is your birthday?—It's on March 27th.3. Improve students’ listening and speaking skills.●难点Learn the months of the year and ordinal numbers1-31.【教学准备】A tape recorder, a projector and handouts.【教学方法】任务型教学法、情景交际法、自主学习与合作学习相结合【课时安排】One period【教学过程】Step 1: Warm-up1. Play the recording and tell students to listen to the birthday song.2. Lead students to sing together.3. Review Unit7. Show some key sentences in Chinese on the screen, have students translate them into English.4. Invite some students to come to the front and write down their answers on the blackboard,5. Check the correct answers with the whole class.Step 2: Presentation1. Teach activity 1a(1) Ask students to read months and try to recite them.(2) Ask students listen and repeat.①— When is your birthday?— My birthday is on May 2nd.②— When is your birthday, Mike?— My birthday is on Jun 3rd.③—When is your birthday, Mary?— It's on January 5th.(3) Ask students to work with their partners and make their own conversations.(4) Check the correct answers with the whole class.2. Teach activity 1b(1) Lead students to read the three conversations.(2) Ask students to listen and number the conversations [1-3].(3) Check the correct answers with the whole class.Answers: 1, 2, 3.3. Teach activity 1c(1) Ask students to work with their partners and practice the conversations in 1b.(2) Ask students to make their own conversations.(3) Invite some pairs to act their conversations out.Step 3: Practice1. Teach activity 2a(1) Ask students to listen and repeat.(2) Ask students to read the numbers themselves and find out the characteristics of the transformation.2. Teach activity 2b&2c(1) Ask students to listen and circle the numbers they hear.(2) Check the correct answers with the class.Answers: 4th, 17th,22nd.(3) Ask students to listen again and match the names, moths and dates.(4) Play the recording and students listen and do the match.(5) Check the correct answers.3. Teach activity 2d(1) Ask students to talk about children's birthdays in 2c. Then ask their partner about the birthdays in his or her family.(2) Give students an example.A: When's Alice's birthday?B: Her birthday is on September 5th.A: When is your father's birthday?B: His birthday is on January 2nd.(3) Give enough time for students to make their own conversations.(4) Invite some students to act out their conversations.Step 4: ConsolidationTeach activity 2e1. Lead students to read the conversations.2. Explain some important words and language points.3. Ask students to work with their partners and practice the conversations.4. Ask students to make their own conversations according to the example.A: Hi, Alan. Happy birthday!B:Thank you, Bill.A: So, how old are you, Alan?B: I'm twelve. How old are you?A: I'm thirteen.5. Invite some pairs to act their conversations out.【课堂小结】In this period, we’ve learned how to read and write the twelve months and how to talk about our birthdays. And we’ve also learned the use of the possessive nouns.【课后作业】Practice the conversations in 1b and2c. Then make your own conversations with your partners. Write down your conversations on your exercise books.Unit 8 When is your birthday?Period 2 (Section A Grammar Focus-3c)【教学目标】●知识目标1. Master some new words and expressions.2. Master some useful sentences.●能力目标Get students to learn to to talk about dates.●情感目标Make students learn to express their wishes to their friends and family members.【教学重难点】●重点1. Master the new words and useful expressions.Words and expressions: happy, happy birthday, old, how old, party, see you.2. Master some useful sentences.(1) — How old are you?—I’m twelve.My birthday is in August.(2) — Do you want to come to my birthday party?—When is it?— At three this afternoon.— See you.●难点Talk about one's age and birthday party.【教学准备】A tape recorder, a projector and handouts.【教学方法】任务型教学法、情景交际法、自主学习与合作学习相结合【课时安排】One period【教学过程】Step 1: Warm-up1. Greet students as usual and check the homework.2. Review the names of the months and ask students to spell them.3 Review the ordinal numbers by saying: January is the first month of the year.4. Ask students to work in pairs and make conversations.A: How old are you?B: I am twelve.A: When is your birthday?B: It's on March 6th.Step 2: PresentationGrammar Focus1. Read through the ordinal numbers in Grammar Focus and recite the rule of the ordinal numbers.2.Dictate some of the words like: first, second, third, fifth, eighth, ninth, twelfth, twentieth, twenty-fourth, thirty-sixth.Ask students to write down those words.3. Get students to check their answers in pairs.4.Ask students to read the sentences in Grammar Focus and pay attention to the possessive pronouns and possessive case of nouns and the use of “in”and “on”. Step 3: Practice1. Teach activity 3a(1) Ask students to read the questions and answers and make sure they know the meaning of all sentences.(2) Ask students to match the questions and answers.(3) Invite some students to tell their answers.(4) Check the correct answers with the whole class.(5) Ask students to work with their partners and practice the conversations.(6) Invite some pairs of students to act out their conversations.2. Teach activity 3a(1) Ask students to read the conversation and try to complete it.(2) Check the correct answers with the class.Answers: old, I'm, when, birthday, on, in.(3) Ask students to work with their partners and practice the conversation.(4) Invite some students to act the conversation out.Step 4: ConsolidationTeach activity 3c1. Ask students to work with their partners and ask their age and birthday.2. Give students an example.A: How old are you, Mary?B: I am twelve years old.A: When is your birthday?B: It's on June 2nd.3. Students make their own conversations freely.【课堂小结】In this period, we’ve further learned how to talk about others’birthdays. And we’ve also consolidated the use of ordinal numbers.【课后作业】1. Review the Grammar Focus.2.Copy 3a and 3b.Unit 8 When is your birthday?Period 3 (Section B 1a–1d)【教学目标】●知识目标1. Master the new words and useful expressions.2. Master some useful sentences.●能力目标1. Get students to master the ordinal numbers .2. Have students talk about the date of the events.●情感目标Improve students' cognition of time.【教学重难点】●重点1. Master the new words and useful expressions.Words and expressions: test, trip, art, festival, dear, student, thing, term, busy, time, Have a good time!2. Master some useful sentences.— When is Sally's birthday party?— It's on October 5th.●难点Talk about the activities and the dates.【教学准备】A tape recorder, a projector and handouts.【教学方法】任务型教学法、情景交际法、自主学习与合作学习相结合【课时安排】One period【教学过程】Step 1: Warm-up1. Review the ordinal numbers.2. Review the words and expressions in the next period.3. Role-play the conversation in 3d.Step 2: PresentationTeach activity 1a1. Show the pictures of different activities and present the words andexpressions.2. Ask students to talk about the events in Section B 1a.3. Point out the four new expressions in the box. Lead students to readand repeat.4.Ask students to match the pictures with the events.Step 3: Practice1.Teach activity 1b(1) Ask students to read the activities again and try to recite them.(2) Ask students to listen and circle the events you hear in 1a.(3) Invite one student to read his/her answers.(4) Check the correct answers with the class.2.Teach activity 1c(1) Lead students to read the instructions and make sure they know what to do.(2) Play the recording for the students to try to fill in the chart.(3) Play the recording for a second time and ask students to check their answers.(4) Check the correct answers with the whole class.Step 4: ConsolidationTeach activity 1d1. Ask students to work with their partners and ask and answer questions about John's calendar.2. Give students an example.A: When's Sally's birthday party?B: It's on October 5th.3. Invite some students to act their conversations out.【课堂小结】In this period, we’ve learned how to talk about the events and consolidated the use of when-questions.【课后作业】1. Remember the months and the ordinal numbers.2. Make a list of people’s birthdays in your family.Unit 8 When is your birthday?Period 4 (Section B 2a–Self Check)【教学目标】●知识目标1. Master the new words and useful expressions.2. Master some useful sentences structures.●能力目标1. Get students to have a clear idea of the moths names.2. Revise the English way of saying numbers. Have the students make a calender card by themselves.●情感目标Get students to love school activities.【教学重难点】●重点1. Master the new words and useful expressions.Words and expressions: dear, student, thing, term, busy, time, there, next month.2. Master some useful sentences.(1) We have some interesting and fun things for you this term.(2) On September 21st, we have a school trip in the afternoon.(3) This is a really busy term!(4) Have a good time!(5) What (other) activities do you like?●难点Talk about activities and the date.【教学准备】A tape recorder, a projector and handouts.【教学方法】任务型教学法、情景交际法、自主学习与合作学习相结合【课时安排】One period【教学过程】Step 1: Warm-up1. Greet students as usual and check the homework.2. Review the following sentences.(1) When is your birthday?(2) When is your father’s birthday?(3) When is your best friend’s birthday?3. Revision: Review the numbers by playing the game, I say ''one'', you say ''first".Step 2: Presentation1. Teach activity 2a(1) Ask students to read the activities in the box and check the activities they have in school.(2) Ask students to discuss and make their own conversations.(3) Give students an example.A: Do you school have soccer game every year?B: Yes, of course.A: When is it ?B: It's on May 6th.(4) Invite some pairs to act out their conversations.2. Teach activity 2b(1) Ask students to read the passage quickly and know the rough meaning of it.(2) Ask students to read the passage again and list the activities and the dates.(3) Check the correct answers to the class.(4) Explain some important language points.3. Teach activity 2c(1) Ask students to read the following questions.① What activities from 2b do you like?② What other activities do you like?(2) Ask students to discuss the two questions freely and make their own conversations.(3) Invite some students to act out their conversations.Step 3: Practice1. Teach activity 3a(1) Ask students to read the passage and the words in the box.(2) Ask students try to fill in the note with the words in the box.(3) Invite one student to tell his\her answers.(4) Check the correct answers with the whole class.Answers: like, basketball, my school, game, September.2. Teach activity 3b(1) Ask students to read the following four questions.① What's your friend's name?② What does your friend like to do?③ What activity do you have in your school?④When is the activity?(2) Ask students to write their own note to invite their friend to an activity in their school according to the four questions.(3) Invite some students to read their notes.Step 4: ConsolidationSelf Check1. Activity 1(1) Ask students to read the chart and try to think of the order of the arrangement.(2) Complete the chart with the correct forms of the numbers.(3) Invite some students to read their answers.(4) Check the correct answers with the class.2. Activity 2(1) Ask students to read the following questions and think of the answers.① When id Children's Day ?② When is National Day?③ When is Women's Day?④When is New Year's Day?(2) Ask students to write the dates for these holidays in China.(3) Check the correct answers with the class.【课堂小结】In this period, we’ve learned how to talk about events and festivals. And we’ve also learned how to write invitation notes.【课后作业】1. Recite the conversation in Section A, 2e.2. Write a report about your group members’birthdays and ages.11。
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