Unit 8 When is your birthday?
Period 3
Teaching materials：Section A: 3a, 3b; Section B: 1, 2a, 2b
Teaching aims:
1. Sub Topic: Talk about the dates and ages
2. Language focus and structure: When is your birthday? My birthday is ….
How old are you? I am fifteen.
3. Vocabulary: date age how old speech contest party trip
Teaching aid:
1. 录音机 2. 一张12个月的图片或幻灯片
3. 一张序数词的first到thirty-first的幻灯片 4. ID
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Warming up
1. Chatting Chat with the students about their birthdays
2. Play a guessing game Guess some classmates’ birthday（信息让学生提供到月份）
Step 2 Presentation
1. When is your birthday? My birthday is ….
How old are you? I am fifteen.（板书，目的是教新词how old, date, age）
2. Practice in pairs
3. Choose an ID card and make a conversation in 3a（Section A）
4. Groupwork 3b and 4（Section A）
a. Ask and answer about your name ,your birthday and your age.
b. Practice again, using your own name, age and date of birth. Then ask some pairs to act.（Four students a group）Rank your partners from the youngest to the oldest. Report about your name, your birthday and your age one by one from the youngest to the oldest.
eg. My name is ….
I’m fifteen.
My birthday is….
Step 3 Match the pictures with the events.（Section B 1）
Write the correct letter next to the word.
a. Let the students match the pictures（对学生来说party, basketball以前已出现过，所以应该没问题。）
b. Have them guess the meaning
c. Then teach the new words.
Step 4 Listening
2a. Listen and check the events above that you hear .
2b. Then listen again and fill in Joe’s calendar
Step 5 Pairwork
Ask and answer about 2b（Section B）
Step 6 Task after class
1. Make an ID card including sex, your name, your birthday, your age, your hobbies and your telephone number.
2. Read and copy the new words.
Teaching postscript:
1. 这节课仍旧继续前两节课的主题，但扩充了句型：How old are you? I am fifteen. 这个句型对学生来说很容易，因为他们在小学时就很熟练。
2. Section B的2b，填写乔的日历，因为有些词汇是新的，一下子从学、听到写，对一些接受能力慢的学生来说可能有一定困难，可以让学生用标号的办法来做，以降低难度。
