When is your birthday？_87355.doc

Unit 8 When is your birthday？ Learning objectives: 1. Skill Focus Talk about ages Learn to talk about dates of birth Talk about the events at school Listen for ordinal numbers Listen for dates Learn to read about the information about birthday and the school events Write the events at school 2. Language Focus (1) 功能句式: Talk about when people were born.（P47—P48） When is your birthday? My birthday is June fourth. When is Liu Ping’s birthday? His birthday is September 5th. Talk about age. How old are you? (P49) I’m fifteen. Talk about the events at school. (P51) Do you have a School Day at your school? Yes, I do. When is it? It’s April 19th. When is the school trip? It’s October 30. (2) 词汇: 重点词汇: when, birthday, month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, date, happy, happy birthday, Leila, Robert speech, contest, party, trip, birth, age, old, how old, art, festival, Chinese, music, famous, surprise ② 认读词汇: tenth, fourth, fifteenth, second, third, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, thirtieth, Vera, Jeff ,basketball game, volleyball game, school day, year, year(s) old, John, William, Tina, Johnson ③ 词组: School Day, Art Festival, Chinese Contest, Music Festival, English Party, school trip, speech contest (3) 语法: When, how questions. Possessive “s” 3. Strategy Focus (1) Act out the conversation on pairs. (2) Help students to learn to talk about months and dates. 4. Culture Focus After age 25, it’s not considered polite to ask someone’s age, except for business reason in America. Teaching materials analyzing and rearranging: 本单元以“When is your birthday?”为话题, 共设计了三个部分的内容。 Section A 该部分有4个模块：第一模块围绕“When is your birthday? ”这一话题展开思维（1a）、听力（1b）、口语（1c）训练；第二模块围绕“English names, dates and months” 进行听力（2a-2b-2c）,口语训练（2d）；第三模块继续就上一模块中的“English names, dates and months”这一话题展开训练，训练形式为阅读编对话（3a）和角色表演（3b）；第四模块仍就“Englis