Unit 8 When is your birthday.doc

Unit8 When is your birthday? Period 1Language goals:1. Words & expressions when, birthday, month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August,September, October, November, December, tenth, fourth, fifteenth, Vera, Jeff2. Key sentencesWhen is your birthday?My birthday is October 10th.Ability goals:Enable students to learn to talk about dates.Emotion & attitude goals: Enable students to remember somebodys birthday. And say “Happy birthday to you!”Strategy goals:Help students to learn to talk about birthdayCulture awareness goals:To understand the targets language by reading pictures.Teaching important:How to talk about dates.Teaching procedures & ways:Step 1. Revision and Lead-inShowing a calendar to students, and then learn dates.T: Good morning, everyone! Dou you know how to talk about dates in English ? Today well learn to talk about dates. Now I have a riddle for you. “一物生来真稀奇，身穿三百多件衣，每天给它脱一件，年底剩下一张皮。” Do you know what it is in Chinese?S: Its “日历”.T: How bright you are! Yes, its a calendar. Here is a calendar. What can you see on it?Help students answer.S: I can see some months.T: What can you see in each month?S: I can see some dates.T: Well done, everyone! Today we will learn months and dates.(Let students look at the calendar carefully.)T: The first month is January.Point January on the calendar. Let students repeat it.Then write first and January down on the blackboard.Point at the months on the calendar one by one to teach students the new words. Learn the other words in the same way. Let students look at the calendar and ask in pairs:T: What months can you see on the calendar?S: I can see January, February, March, April.Ask students can read and write twelve months correctly. Step 2. speaking(la: P47)In order to ask students can read and write twelve months correctly. In this procedure, students listen to the recording and learn the months of the year. T: Look at the picture in la on P47. Its a calendar. Therere twelve months in the calendar. What are they? S1: They are January, February, March, April, May, June.Point out we often use short forms when writing.Write abbreviated versions on the blackboard.Point to random months on the abbreviated list and have students tell the full form. Play the recording the first time. Students only listen as they follow along.Play the recording the Second time. Ask Students to listen and repeat each word.Note: The stress comes on the middle syllable in the words September, October, November and December. Let the students chant these in order, the middle syllable louder than the other two: Sep-tem-ber, Oc-to-ber and so on.Step 3. Practicing (lb, Ic: P47)First read the instructions, ask students to listen to three conversations and number them in order.T: Look at the box beside the conversation. Well listen to the recording carefully twice. For the first time just listen. Youll write the number in the box after listening to the conversation twice.Check the answers. And then ask them to listen to the recording and repeat the conversations.Sample dialogue 1:S: When is your birthday, Li Lei?S: My birthday is January fifteenth.Sample dialogue 2:S: My birthday is October fourth. What about you, Vera? S: My birthday is July tenth.Step 4. Sum upAsk some students to sum up this lesson by overhead projector and then have a test for the aim.Check the answers and correct the answers. Home