Unit 8 When is your birthday .doc

Unit 8 When is your birthday? Section A教案Teaching aims and language points:1. Learn these words and expressions, and be able to say, read and write them:when, month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, the ordinal numbers from first to thirty-first.2. Be able to talk about ones birthday by using sentences:When is your/his/her birthday?My/His/Her birthday is on October tenth. When is Alices birthday?Her birthday is Keypoints and difficulties:1. The names of twelve months2. Ordinal numbers3. Sentences:When is your birthday? My birthday is / Its When is Veras birthday? Veras birthday is / Its How old are you? I am thirteen.Teaching aids:Computer, ppt, calendarTeaching steps:Step 1 Warning-up and revision 1. Daily greeting to the students.2. Revision: Revise the cardinal numbers and some nouns by translating the following phrases.Step 2 Presentation 1. Present the new words: month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2. Ask and answer with the Ss:T: Whats this in English? (show a picture of a Calendar) Ss: Its a calendar. T: How many months are there in a year?Ss: There are 12 months in a year.3. Get the Ss to guess what month and year mean.4. Then, teach the Ss the names of 12 months.Step 3 Working on 1a, 1b and 1c1. Listen and repeat.2. Ask some individual Ss to read the new words again. Correct their pronunciations when necessary.3. Working on 1b.1) Students listen and number conversations. Check their answers quickly.2) Listen and repeat.3) Practice the conversations in pairs.4) Practice reading some dates.4. Pair work of 1c: Ss practice the conversation of 1b and make their own conversations in pairs.5. A song: Teach the Ss to sing the song of months. Step 4 Ordinal Numbers1. Present the ordinal numbers from firs t to twelfth.T: When is January? (Help the Ss to answer.)Ss: Its the first month of the year.2. Repeat the questions and answers for the other months and present the ordinal numbers from second to twelfth.3. Present some other ordinal numbers.4. Read the Students Book P81.5. Work on 2a. Listen and repeat.6. 基数词变为序数词的顺口溜Step 5 Listening practice1. Work on 2b. Listen and circle the numbers you hear in 2a.2. Work on 2c. Listen and match the names, months and dates.3. Listen and read the conversations after the record.Step 6 Pair work1. Talk about the childrens birthday in 2d like the sample in the box.2. Ask your partner about the birthdays in his or her family.Step 7 Homework1. Re member the new words we learned today.2. Ask the Ss