七年级上Unit 8 Section A 1a-2c.doc

Lesson Plan: Unit 8 When is your birthday? -Section A 1a-2cDesigner: Sun YanyanSubject: English as a foreign language (EFL)Grade Level: Grade 7 Period of Time: 40 minutesLesson Topic: Talk about datesGoal: In this lesson, students will develop the knowledge of talking about dates and practise using ordinal numbers.Teaching Aims【Knowledge and skills】The main content is to learn to ask for and express the date; try to understand more meanings of birthday by talking about your own, your classmates and your familys birthdays; Learn to arrange a right work and rest timetable for yourself. 【Processes and methods】With the studying strategies of Classifying and Role-playing, organize the teaching and get the students to do Pair work and games to learn and practice Asking for and talking about dates by using teaching pictures, flashcards, objects (hanging calendar, timetable of activities in and out of class and activity calendar) or courseware (showing the characters of months and activities in and out of class) and so on. Get the students to consolidate the target knowledge by role-playing; Learn to summarize the target knowledge by self-judgment. 【Emotion, attitudes and value】This content is close to the students life and the topic deals with birthday and activities in and out of class. It can not only build up the understanding the friendship between classmates, but also make them learn to arrange their own work and rest time to have good regularly living and studying habits by asking for birthdays and calendars of activities in and out of class.Difficulties and focus1、Grasp the usage of months and expressing of dates; 2、Grasp the usage of ordinal numbers;3、Learn the special questions that when leads;4、Learn possession case s.Materials/Resources:1. A blackboard and multimedia equipment (including computer, overhead projector, big screen, etc)2. Several pictures. 3. A piece of sheet and small pieces of paper.Teaching and studying design of mutual actionsCreate plots and scenes to guide the new lessonThe main content is to learn to ask and answer about date in Section A, so we can adopt the Audiovisual Guiding Method and Concluding and summarizing Method: At first introduce moths of year one by one, the teacher can put up a home-made calendar that showing every month on the blackboard, introduce or play courseware as pointing at each month This is January. This is February , and lead the students to read several times, and then play the tape of Activity 1a and get the students to imitate; (After reading the months) the teacher may say pointing at the calendar My birthday is on May 4. When is your birthday? and get the students to answer My birthday is , so begin to learn the target language Asking and expressing date which is the focus in this unit. Cooperate and intercourse to unscramble and researchThe main content in Section A is to learn the target language:When is your birthday? My birthday is October tenth.When is Leilas birthday? Her birthday is September 5th.Procedures: 1、【Demonstration】Learn months and ordinal numbers first, and then the teacher communicates with the students:（pointing the calendar）Whats the date?（Answer）This is October 1st.（Asking the students）Whats the date?（get the students to answer）Its .（pointing the calendar）My birthday is October 1st. When is my birthday?（Answer）My birthday is October 1st.（Asking the students）When is your birthday?（get the students to answer）My birthday/It is .（Asking the students）When is Leilas/his/her birthday?（get the students to answer）His/Her birthday is .2、【Intercourse】Get the students to practice conversations and communicate with each other:When is your birthday? My birthday is October tenth.When is Leilas birthday? Her birthday is September 5th.How old are you? Im . How old is he/she? He/She is .3、【Experiences】1）Play the tape of Activity 1b and get the students to listen and order the conversations according to the content they hear, finish the teaching task of Activity 1b.2）Play the tape of Activity 1b again and get the students to do Pair work to learn to ask and talk about date by using the special questions which when leads, and finish the teaching task of Activity 1c.3）Show word cards or flashcards and play the tape of Activity 2a and get the students to listen and read after and imitate the tape, finish the teaching task of Activity 2a.4）Play the tape of Activity 2b and get the students to listen and circle the numbers they hear to finish the hearing-training task in Activity 2b.5）Play the tape of Activity 2b again and get the students to fill in the form, match the names and months and dates to finish the teaching task of Activity 2c.4、【Activities】1）Get the students to do Pair work to finish the teaching task of oral intercourse in Activity 2d. Let the students read conversations and then practice them by using the target language When is your/his/her birthday? My/His/Her birthday is . What year were you born? I was born in and so on, finish the teaching task of Activity 2d.2）Get the students to do Pair work to finish the teaching task of oral intercourse in Activity 3a. Let the students to choose an ID card to practice a conversation by using the target language When is your birthday? My birthday is. How old are you? Im fifteen. And so on, finish the teaching task of Activity 3a.4）Get the students to do Pair work to finish the teaching task of oral intercourse in Activity 3b. Ask the students practice conversations with their own names, ages and birthdays and learn to use the target knowledge to finish the teaching task of Activity 3b.5）Get the students to play Birthday Game. Ask them to ask about each others birthdays and then arrange orders by age. In this way, get the students to practice the target language to finish the teaching task of Activity 4.Summarize and ponder【Summary】The main content in this unit is to learn months, ordinal numbers and asking and answering about dates; Learn the structures and usage of noun possession case; learn to arrange their own work and rest time.【Pondering】1、The main content is to learn how to ask about dates with the special questions which when leads and express dates with the ordinal numbers. As for the expressions of dates, its often used in everyday studying life. In fact its not difficult to grasp the knowledge if only the teacher tells them the structural knacks and the differences from Chinese and gives them much practice. But the teacher must tell the students that cardinal and ordinal numbers are both right to express dates and it is popular to use cardinal numbers to express dates in spoken-English, though only ordinal numbers are introduced in this unit. At the same time, encourage them to use the target knowledge in everyday intercourse boldly. For example, “五月四日” may be May four(th), the fourth of May. In this way, the teacher can indoctrinate a kind of consciousness: Some English habitual expressions are established by usage, sometimes irregular even incomprehensive, so we cant guess and explain them blindly. But its not to say English habitual expressions are contacted at random and they are always developing and evolving just like many idioms in Chinese. As for the teaching of habitual expressions, the teacher can introduce some English background knowledge to the students and it can help a lot.2、One important content is to learn the structures and usage of the noun p