Unit 8 When is your birthday?

Period One

<Task>

  1.Learn the names of the twelve months.

  2.Learn the numbers  1st to 30th.

  3.Ask the parterner's birthday in the groups.

<Important sentences>

  When is your birthday,Mary?

  My birthday is ....

<Teaching Steps>

Step I Revision

  1.Play the VCD.Revise the names of the twelve months.

  2.Play the tape using activity 2a on page 48.Revise the numbers from first to thirtieth.

Step II Practise

  Say the date.For example:January 1st,February the scond,March third,etc.

Step III Prentation

  1.Prent the conversations.

     When is your birthday?

     My birthday is .....

  2.Drill like Li Yang.

Step IV Listening

  1b on page 47.Listen and number the conversations[1-3]

Step V Survey

  Give eveyone a chart.then survey ,ask and answer his or her partner's birthday.

Homework

  Survey your class Whose birthday is in the same month?

Period   Two

<Difficult  sentences>

What year were you born?

I was born in ----

OK,so you are -----years and ------months old.

Step 1 Listen

1.Listen and circle the numbers you hear in 2a.on page 48.

2.Listen and match the names ,months and days.Activity 2c on page 48.

Step 2 Pairwork

1. Ask your partner about his or her birthday.Activity 2d on page 48.

2.Choose an ID and make a conversation.Activity 3a on page 49.

3.Practice again.Use your own names,age,and of births.

Step 3 The birthday game

Activity 4 on page 49.