Unit 8 When is your birthday?
Period 1 Section A 1a – 2d
Teaching aims and language points:
1. Learn these words and expressions, and be able to say, read and write them:
when, month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
the ordinal numbers from first to thirty-first
2. Be able to talk about one’s birthday by using
When is your/his/her birthday?[来源:Z#xx#k.Com]
My/His/Her birthday
is in October.

My/His/Her birthday
is on October tenth.

When is Alice’s birthday? Her birthday is …
Teaching keys:
1.The names of the twelve months and the usage of ordinal numbers.
2.Ask about the birthdays of other people.
Teaching difficulties:
1.The names of the twelve months and the usage of ordinal numbers.
2.Ask about the birthdays of other people.
Teaching methods:
Task-based Language Teaching,Visual teching method, situational teaching method
Before class：比一比，谁最棒?
1． 谁会读单词音标？ 2. 谁会记单词？ 谁记单词的方法好？
（教师提点：1.比一比单词的字母： 部分单词字母相同：January/ February September/ October/ November/ December 2. 荒诞记忆法与故事相结合。 January/ February March/ April/May June/July September/ October/ November/ December
2．Can you know the differences: My birthday is in August.
My birthday is on August 1st.
3．Can you say like this? My birthday is in___________.
My birthday is on__________.
4． Learn these numbers and find out the rules:
一起找规律
1st first 11th eleventh 21st twenty-first
2nd second 12th twelfth 22nd twenty-second
3rd third 13th thirteenth 23rd twenty-third
4th fourth 14th fourteenth 24th twenty-fourth
5th fifth 15th fifteenth 25th twenty-fifth
6th sixth 16th sixteenth 26th twenty-sixth
7th seventh 17th seventeenth 27th twenty-seventh
8th eighth 18th eighteenth 28th twenty-eighth
9th ninth 19th nineteenth 29th twenty-ninth
10th tenth 20th twentieth 30th thirtieth
31st thirty-first
教学设计
备注

Step 1 Warm up and lead-in.
1．Listen to a song. T: What can you hear? (the twelve months. Learn the new word: month)
2．Share: How can you remember the words? (When students answer, according to students’ answers, show the picture to help remember and understand the words. )
3. T: My birthday is in August.
(Read the sentences. -- My birthday is in August.)
T: When is your birthday?
S1: My birthday is in…(Show a birthday cake and say“The birthday cake is for you.”
Read the sentences:
When is your birthday? -- My birthday is in August.
4．T: We’ll learn unit 8 When is your birthday? (Read the title.)
Step 2 Work on 1a.
1. Listen and repeat.
2. Students say one by one: My birthday is in…(When students say, show the month words.)
Step 3 Presentation.
Compare:
Can you know the differences: My birthday is in August.
My birthday is on August 1st.
3. Learn the ordinal numbers.
(1) Present the ordinal numbers
(2) Read the Students’
Book P81.
(3) Work on 2a. Listen and repeat.
(4) 基数词变为序数词的顺口溜: 基变序，有规律，一、二、三特殊记，词尾字母t, d, d；
-th 四加起，八少t来九去e； （从4起在词尾加th）
ve变f替，y要变ie。若想表示几十几，只变个位就可以。
Step 4 . Working on 1b.
1. Students listen and number conversations. Check their answers quickly.[来源:学*科*网]
2. Listen and repeat.
3. Practice the conversations in pairs.[来源:Zxxk.Com]
4. Practice reading some dates.
Step 5 Pair work.
Ask the Ss to ask and answer about their own birthdays.
A: When is your birthday, Wang Ming?
B: My birthday is on May 5th.
Step 6 Listen
ing practic
e.
(1) Work on 2b. Listen and circle the numbers you hear in 2a.
(2) Work on 2c. Listen and match the names, months and dates.
(3) Listen and read the conversations after the record.[K]
Step 7
. Pair work. Work on 2d.
1. Ask some Ss about the birthdays of the four students in 2c.
T: When is Alice's birthday, S1?
S1: Her birthday is on September 5th.
T: When is Frank's birthday, S2？
S2: His birthday is on …
T: Now ask and answer about the birthdays of the four students in 2c with your partner.
(Ss work in pairs to ask and answer about their birthdays.)
2. Do you know your parents' birthday? Ask your partner about the birthday in his or her family?
S1: When is your father's birthday?
S2: His birthday is on September 10th.
S1: When is your mother's birthday?
S2: Her birthday is on August 20th.
(Then S2 ask S1 about the birthdays in his or her family.)
Step 8 . Homework
1. Re
member the ne
w words we learned today.
2. Look at the chart below and write a conversation between you and Mike like 2d.