资源描述
When is your birthday
Analysis of the Teaching Material
【Curriculum requirements】
The focus of this unit is the expression of the date. The students will be able to master the words of twelve months and the ordinal numbers 1st to 31st. The students will be able to know the expression of some festivals. The students will be able to arrange their life in a schedule and learn to ask their family members’ birthdays.
Analysis of the Teaching Material：
This is the first period of this unit, the students will get to know something about the differences between the expression of the Chinese and western dates.
Students will be able to learn the words of twelve months, and the simple expression of the date, and use “when” questions to talk about the birthdays.
Teaching Aims and Demands
Knowledge Objects
(1)Students will be able to master the differences between expression of the Chinese and western dates.
(2) Students will be able to master the words of twelve months.
(3) Students will be able to master simple expression of the date.
Ability Objects
Students will learn to express the date in English, and be able to talk about their own birthdays and ask people about their birthdays.
Moral Objects
Ss will know something about their classmates’ birthday, which as a result, will help them know better and more about their classmates and build better friendship.
Teaching Key Points
And Teaching Difficult Points
Teaching Key Points
1. The words of twelve months.
2. The words of ordinal numbers 1st to 31st.
3. The expressions of talking about people’s birthdays.
Teaching Difficult Points
1. The words of twelve months will be hard for students to master in a limited time.
2. The confusion between the cardinal numbers and the ordinal numbers.
Teaching aids
Records Calendar Textbook
Design of period
Period 1
Teaching Procedures
Teacher-student Interaction
Revise
Step I Revision
1. Review something learnt last unit.
“How much is the sweater? It is 7 dollars.
“How much are the socks? They are 4 Yuan.
Step Ⅱ
1. Warming-up and lead-in.
Play a short song “happy birthday to you.” And lead the focus of “birthday”, and the expression of the date.
2. explain the difference between the Chinese and western dates.
Chinese: 2013年11月18日
English: Nov. 18th, 2013
Order : Chinese year, month, date (年，月，日)
English month, date, year（日，月，年或月，日，年）
Expression: Chinese: cardinal numbers （日子用基数词表示）
English: ordinal numbers （日子用基数词来表示）
Step Ⅲ
1. Learn the new words of twelve months and their abbreviated form.
January Jan. February Feb. March Mar.
April Apr. May May. June June.
July July. August Aug. September Sep.
October Oct November Nov December Dec
Step Ⅳ
1. The simple writing of the ordinal numbers from 1st to 31st..
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st
2. Finish the exercise 1a of section A.
3. Practice expressing some festivals.
Spring Festival （春节）
Tree Planting Day (植树节)
Labor’s Day（劳动节）
Children’s Day（儿童节）
National Day (国庆节)
4. Listen to the radio and number the conversations.
5. Use the when questions to talk about one’s birthday.
When is your birthday, Linda? It is on May 2nd.
When is your birthday, Mary? It is on January 5th.
6. make students work in pairs and practice talking about one’s birthday。
Step Ⅴ Summary
Make a summary of the words of the months, and summaries the expression of the date.
1. Let students read the following dates in English:
１月１５日 ４月３０日
７月８日 １０月１日
５月２９日 ２月１４日
2. Let students complete the following three conversations according to the hints.
(1) When is your birthday?
My birthday is ____ the ___. (6月1日)
(2) When ___ your birthday?
My birthday is ________the _____. （12月8日）
The teacher’s activities:
Play a short video “happy birthday to you” before class.
T: Glad to see you again, boys and girls. Before today’s lesson, let’s enjoy a song. Listen and sing after it. Then, tell me when do we listen to this song?
The students sing the song together and remind something of the birthday, lead the topic about the months.
The teacher asks the students to work in groups, observe the different expression of the date, and find out the different points.
The teacher let the students work in pairs and practice the dialogue.
Blackboard Design
Unit 8 When is your birthday?
Months
1. January Jan. 7. July Jul.
2. February Feb. 8. August Aug.
3. March Mar. 9. September Sep.
4. April Apr. 10. October Oct.
5. May May. 11. November Nov.
6. June Jun. 12. December Dec.
Homework
1. Copy the words of the months.
2. Practice expressing the dates.
Record after teaching
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