Unit 8 When is your birthday? 教学设计

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Unit 8 When is your birthday? 教学设计
Section A (1a-1c)
南宝中学 田晓玲
教学目标：
1. Get students to learn to use When questions, possessive  “s” and How old are you?
2. Teach students to learn the months of the year and ordinal numbers1-31.
3. Get students to learn to talk about dates.
教学内容：
New words: when, month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, happy, Happy birthday!  
New sentences:
—When is your birthday?
—My birthday is„
重点难点：
Words: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December,
Sentences:
—When is your birthday?
—My birthday is„
教学步骤：
Step I. Warming-up and revision
1.  Listen to the birthday song, get the Ss to sing together.
2.  Review the unit 7. Show some key sentences in Chinese on the blackboard, have students translate them into English, get a student from each group to come to the front and write down their answers on the blackboard, then check the answers.
Step II. Presentation
Teacher says: “When is my birthday?
My birthday is March 12th.”
Get the students to answer,
“My birthday is...”
Then teacher says,  “It’s a good / nice answer.
I like your answer.”On the blackboard show there are 12 months in a year. They are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.  
Show the question  “When is your birthday?”
Underline  “when”, tell the students that it means  “what time „”
Step III. Listening drills (1)
Do Section A, 1b, listen and number the conversations (1-3).  
Get student to listen to the tape and try to repeat the sentences in the conversations.
Step IV. Pair-work.
Get the students listen to the conversations again and repeat after the tape , then work in groups, practice the conversations with the partners.
Have some students come to the front and show their own conversation.
Step V Homework
1. Listen and read after the tape for thirty minutes.
2. Write down the Chinese meaning of the new words and key sentences, then translate them into English.