Unit8教案
Topic : Unit 8 When is your birthday? (7A)
Periods: (4)
Language Goal: Talk about dates.
Emotional Goal: Take good care of their parents because they are getting old
while they are growing up. They should not only remember
their own birthday but also their parents’. Think of
others more than themselves.
Ability Goal:Teach them how to search more information about scientists.
Key words and expressions :
1. Months : January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,October,November,December.
2. Cardinal numbers:first,second,third,fourth,fifth,sixth,seventh,
eighth,ninth,tenth,eleventh,twelfth,thirteenth,fourteenth,
fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth,
twentieth, twenty_first, twenty_second, twenty_third,
twenty_fourth, twenty_fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh,
twenty-eighth,twenty-ninth,thirtieth,thirty-first
3.Phrases:speech contest, school trip, basketball game, volleyball game, birthday/English party, school day, Art/Music Festival, Chorus Competition, Pop music,how old,date of birth
Key sentences: 1.When is your birthday? My birthday is October tenth.
2.What year were you born? I was born in 1989.
So you’re.....years and....months old.
3. How old are you ? I’m fifteen.
Teaching methods: Task-based teaching approach ;The cognitive approach; Audio_visual teaching method with CAI. Situational and communicational teaching method.
Learning Strategies: Personalizing; Self_evaluating; Let the students work in pairs to learn the cooperativelearning
Pre_task: 1.Ask the students to make a survey/interview about their parents and some famous physicians including their dates of birth , names,
ages, hobbies , dislikes and jobs.
2.Bring ID cards to the class.
Teaching procedures
Section A
Leading_in: Look at the picture of the calendar on the screen. Today we’re
going to talk about the date of birth .(Read the title ‘When is your
birthday?’)Do you want to know how old I am ? Now let me tell you:
I was born in 1965.My birth date is on September 28th. Can you say that
just like me? Now, let’s learn to say them in English, OK?
Task 1.
1. Look at these months on the screen. Listen and repeat after the recording.
2. After that, ask the students to pay more attention to the spelling rules to the months. Teach them how to remember them very quickly.
3. Listen and number the conversations (1-3). Show them on the screen.
4. Ask and answer in pairs:
A: When is your birthday?
B: My birthday is October tenth.
Task 2
1.Do listening practice of 2a.Listen and repeat together. Then in groups/pairs/one by one.
2.Listen and circle the numbers in 2a.After that, teacher asks the following questions.
(1) When is Leila’s birthday?
(2) When is Nick’s birthday?
(3) When is Robert’s birthday?
(4) When is Jane’s birthday?
Then match the names, months and days. Show them on the screen.
3.Pairwork: make conversations according to the information in the form above.
A: When is Leila’s birthday?
B: Her birthday is September 5 th.
A: When is your birthday ?
B: My birthday is _______ ________.
A: What year were you born?
B: I was born in_________.
A: OK. So you are _____years old and ____ months old.
Task 3
1. Ask the students to take out their ID cards. Then change them each other to
make conversations in pairs.
2. Now, let’s look at a picture of a famous volleyball star in China. She is 44 years old. She is Chinese. She is a woman. But now she is in America. She is the coach of American Women’s Volleyball Team. Guess her name. Then show the picture on the screen.
3. Ask the
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