Unit 8 When is your birthday Period 1教案（人教新目标版）

Unit 8 When is your birthday?Period 1  (Section A 1a–2e)【教学目标】     ●知识目标      1. Master the new words and useful expressions.       2. Master the target language.●能力目标        Get students able to talk about one's birthday.     ●情感目标       Get students to know that time passes away fast and we should cherish them.【教学重难点】     ●重点       1. Master the new words and useful expressions.         Words and expressions: when, month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, happy, Happy birthday!        2. Master the target language:         —When is your birthday?         —It's on March 27th.       3. Improve students’ listening and speaking skills.     ●难点        Learn the months of the year and ordinal numbers1-31.【教学准备】     A tape recorder, a projector and handouts.【教学方法】     任务型教学法、情景交际法、自主学习与合作学习相结合【课时安排】     One period【教学过程】     Step 1: Warm-up     1. Play the recording and tell students to listen to the birthday song.      2. Lead students to sing together.      3. Review Unit7. Show some key sentences in Chinese on the screen, have students translate them into English.      4. Invite some students to come to the front and write down their answers on the blackboard,     5. Check the correct answers with the whole class.  Step 2: Presentation  1. Teach activity 1a    (1) Ask students to read months and try to recite them.    (2) Ask students listen and repeat.      — When is your birthday?       — My birthday is on May 2nd.      — When is your birthday, Mike?        — My birthday is on Jun 3rd.     —When is your birthday, Mary?        — It's on January 5th.    (3) Ask students to work with their partners and make their own conversations.    (4) Check the correct answers with the whole class.  2. Teach activity 1b    (1) Lead students to read the three conversations.    (2) Ask students to listen and number the conversations [1-3].    (3) Check the correct answers with the whole class.        Answers: 1, 2, 3.  3. Teach activity 1c     (1) Ask students to work with their partners and practice the conversations in 1b.     (2) Ask students to make their own conversations.     (3) Invite some pairs to act their conversations out.  Step 3: Practice  1. Teach activity 2a   (1) Ask students to listen and repeat.   (2) Ask students to read the numbers themselves and find out the characteristics of the transformation.  2. Teach activity 2b&2c    (1) Ask students to listen and circle the numbers they hear.    (2) Check the correct answers with the class.      Answers: 4th, 17th,22nd.    (3) Ask students to listen again and match the names, moths and dates.    (4) Play the recording and students listen and do the match.    (5) Check the correct answers.  3. Teach activity 2d   (1) Ask students to talk about children's birthdays in 2c. Then ask their partner about the birthdays in his or her family.   (2) Give students an example.      A: When's Alice's birthday?      B: Her birthday is on September 5th.      A: When is your father's birthday?      B: His birthday is on January 2nd.  (3) Give enough time for students to make their own conversations.  (4) Invite some students to act out their conversations.Step 4: ConsolidationTeach activity 2e  1. Lead students to read the conversations.  2. Explain some important words and language points.  3. Ask students to work with their partners and practice the conversations.  4. Ask students to make their own conversations according to the example.    A: Hi, Alan. Happy birthday!    B:Thank you, Bill.    A: So, how old are you, Alan?    B: I'm twelve. How old are you?    A: I'm thirteen.  5. Invite some pairs to act their conversations out.【课堂小结】    In this period, we’ve learned how to read and write the twelve months and how to talk about our birthdays. And we’ve also learned the use of the possessive nouns.【课后作业】     Practice the conversations in 1b and2c. Then make your own conversations with your partners. Write down your conversations on your exercise books.