Unit8 When is your birthday？
Section A
Contents: unit 8 When is your birthday (section A)
Teaching aims :
Language goal:
(1) the names of twelve months and the Ordinal Numbers
(2) When is your birthday? My birthday is … / It’s …
When is Vera’s birthday? Vera’s birthday is … / It’s …
How old are you? I am thirteen.
Ability goal；Guard students to use English in their daily life
Emotion goal: Cultivate students’ communication ability and encourage them to study positively
Teaching Difficult points：the expression of date
Teaching important points：January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November December.
when is your birthday ? My birthday is…….
When is her birthday? Her birthday is…….
When is his birthday? His birthday is……
Teaching procedures:
Step1 Warming up
Guard students to sing a birthday song together All the students sing the birthday song.
Step2 Presentation
Teacher ask students:” When is your birthday?” Students may answer it in Chinese
Then teacher teach how to express twelve months in English.
Students talk about their own birthday and learn and read this twelve words
Step3. Language points
Review the Cardinal Number and teach the Ordinal Numbers and expression of date.
基变序，有规律，Review the Cardinal Number and teach the Ordinal Numbers and expression of date.
基变序，有规律，
第一、二、三单独记。
-th 从四加起，
八去t来九去e。
遇到ve, f替，
-ty变为tie,
后跟-th莫迟疑。
若想表示几十几，
只变个位就可以。
第一、二、三单独记。
-th 从四加起，
八去t来九去e。
遇到ve, f替，
-ty变为tie,
后跟-th莫迟疑。
若想表示几十几，
只变个位就可以。
Step4 Practice
Ask the students to practice in groups of 1b.then ask the some group leader to show their report.
Step5.Listenning
Play the recording for the students to listen and do the work in 2b and 2c.then analysis the listening material and ask students to read following the tape.
Step6。Interview
The teacher allows students to go out of your seat to interview anyone you like and then make a report.，including such questions:
When is your birthday?
When is your father’s birthday?
When is your mother birthday?
Step 7.pairwork
Summary
Step 8 Homework
Blackboard writing design
January 一月 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
February 二月 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th
March 三月 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd
April 四月 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st
May 五月
June 六月
July 七月 When is your/father’s/mother’s birthday?
August 八月 My/His/Her birthday is October fourteenth.
September 九月
October 十月
November 十一月
December 十二月
教学反思
这节课的词汇容量比较大，12个月份的单词也比较难记，对于基础较薄弱的学生来说全部掌握有一定困难，但是假如他们记住了自己出身的月份，家人出身的月份及好朋友出身的月份，那么对于他们来说目的也就达到了。2、我把1-31序数词的学习也放在这节课里，因为基数词1-31刚在前一个单元学过，所以对学生来说困难不会很大。3、对学生来说在一节课内要把月、日流利的说正确可能回有一定的困难，主要是学生会经常把“日”的表达用基数词