Unit 1 When is your birthday (Section A 1a-2a)【教案】

When is your birthday
Period 1 Section A: 1a, 1b, 1c & 2a
Ⅰ.Teaching objectives:
1. Knowledge objectives:
（1） Ss will be able to master the words of twelve months.
（2） Ss will be able to master the ordinal numbers 1st to 31st.
（3） Ss will be able to use “When” questions and talk about dates.
2. Ability objectives:
Ss will be able to talk about their own birthdays and ask people about their birthdays.
3. Emotional objectives:
Ss will know something about their classmates’ birthday, which as a result, will help them know better and more about their classmates and build better friendship.
4. Cultural awareness objectives:
Ss will be able to know the different ways of celebrating birthday between China and western countries.
Ⅱ.Learning and teaching focus:
1. The words of twelve months.
2. The words of ordinal numbers 1st to 31st.
3. The expressions of talking about people’s birthdays.
Ⅲ.Anticipated difficulties:
Though Ss have already learned about cardinal numbers, they may still be confused about ordinal numbers, which may hinder them from expressing dates properly. And the words of the twelve months are absolutely new to the students. It will be hard for the students to master all the words in limited time. Hence, students may have difficulties in expressing dates and talking about people’s birthdays.
Solutions:
a) Try to provide students more opportunities to practice;
b) Guide students to summarize the rules of changing cardinal numbers to ordinal numbers.
Ⅳ.Teaching aids:
Multi-media equipments
Ⅴ.Teaching methods
1. Task – oriented method.
2. Communicative approach.
3. Situation – experienced method.
Ⅵ.Teaching procedures
Step 1. Warming up & Lead – in
4. Play a short video named “Months” before class. Let students enjoy it and try to sing after the song.
5. Lead in the new lesson by talking about birthday cake.
T: Now boys and girls, class begins. Today we are going to learn a new unit ------ Unit 8 When is your birthday Do you know the word “birthday”
Ss: 生日。
T: Right. Every one has their own birthday. (Write the word “birthday” on the blackboard and teach it.) What do you usually do on your birthday
Ss: …
T: Good. We usually sing songs. Now let’s enjoy the song together.
(Play the flash “Happy Birthday to You”. Let students sing after it.)
T: Well done! I can’t sing as well as you. Now tell me, what else do we usually do on birthday
Ss: …
T: Good idea! We usually eat birthday cake. Look at here. (The teacher points to the screen.) Here is a big birthday cake. Can you guess how much it is
(Let students guess the price of the birthday cake.)
(Design purpose: Let students enjoy the two flashes can create a relaxing learning atmosphere, which will get students to learn English happily and willingly. Besides, the flash “Months” can give students an impression of the twelve months. While the guessing price task will help students review the cardinal numbers they already learned, which will make the learning of the ordinal numbers easier.)
Step 2. Presentation
T: Well done. Now we’ve known the price of the cake, but do you know who will get the cake
Ss: …
T: Well, it’s for one of my friend. Today is her birthday. Whose birthday is today Put up your hand.
(If there’s any students put up their hands, guide students to say happy birthday to them. If not, then ask “When is your birthday ”)
You see, every one’s has birthday, but our birthday may be different from our friends. When is your birthday
(Write the sentence “When is your birthday ” on the board. Then show a picture with a boy and the word “January” on the screen. Guide students to say “My birthday is in January.” And show students’ answer on the screen.)
T: So this boy’s birthday is in January. How about yours How much months are there in a year What are they
(Show the twelve months on the screen, and teach them one by one.)
(Design purpose: Before teaching the months, I’ll teach students the sentence patterns “When is your birthday ” and “My birthday is in …”. In this way, students will have more chance to practice the sentence patterns. Besides, I show the phonetics of the words and let students read these words after the recorder. This will help them pronounce these words more correctly.)
Step 3. PK games
Show the twelve months randomly and quickly. Let students try to say them correctly.
(Design purpose: This activity can make students try to master the twelve months actively and quickly. Students will be glad to take part in the PK games, and when they are competing with each other, they’re mastering the new words, too.)
Step 4. Ordinal numbers learning
T: Now we can tell the twelve months quite well, but can you tell me which month of the year your birthday is in
Ss: …
T: Well, let me show you. Look at the screen. Here are twelve months. And we can say “January is the first month of a year.” How about the other months Can you tell me
(Teach the words “first” to “twelfth” by talking about the months in the same way as “January”.)
T: So we can say first to twelfth now. Do you still remember the numbers 1to 30
Ss: Yes.
T: Then, let’s count them.
(Let students say the numbers from one to thirty one by one.)
T: You see, these numbers are cardinal numbers. And there’s another kind of numbers. They’re ordinal numbers. Let’s count them from first to twelfth. Ok
(Let some other students say first to twelfth one by one.)
T: Well, now we can say ordinal numbers from first to twelfth. Can you say the other numbers Take out your English book and turn to page 48. Look at the numbers in the chart of 2a. I’ll play the recording of it. Listen and repeat, please.
(Play the recording. Students read after it and try to learn the rest ordinal numbers.)
T: Now look at the screen. Here are the cardinal numbers and ordinal numbers. Can you find out the rules of changing cardinal numbers into ordinal numbers Work in pairs and try to summarize the rules.
(Ss work in pairs. After a few minutes, invite some students to tell their discussing results. And then the teacher shows the rules to the class and helps them remember them.)
(Design purpose: The activity 2a only provides students an opportunity to listen and read the ordinal numbers from first to thirty – first. Students will not get a clear idea towards ordinal numbers and it may be difficult for them to master them. And they may get confused about some numbers. But when we give students time to summarize the rules of changing numbers from cardinal numbers to ordinal numbers, students will have a better understanding towards them. And we use the twelve months to teach the numbers first to twelfth can teach the ordinal numbers lively and revise the twelve months impressively. Besides, the three conversations in activity 1b are mainly about birthdays, that is to say, about dates. If we don’t teach the ordinal numbers, students may have difficulties in understanding the conversations, so we’d better do activity 2a first.)
Step 5. Group competition
Divide the students into four groups and show different ordinal numbers on the screen. Let students say the numbers quickly. The group of the students who say more numbers wins.
(Design purpose: When students learn something new, we’d better provide them chance to use it. Group competition can greatly stimulate students’ interests of using and remembering the ordinal numbers they just learned. And it will make English learning more interesting.)
Step 6. Listening
T: Good. Now we’ve known how to say months and ordinal numbers, but can you say dates Some students are talking about their birthdays. Let’s try to get the dates. OK
Ss: OK.
T: Well, please pay attention to 1a. Read the three conversations quickly. I’ll play the recording in five seconds. Listen carefully and try to number them one to three as you hear them.
(Play the recording for the first time.)
T: Can you number them
(Play the recording again if necessary. Then, check the answers.)
T: Now I’d like to play the recording for one more time. Listen and read after it. Pay attention to the intonation and stress, please.
(Play the recording for the last time and students read after it.)
(Design purpose: Listening activity can not only train students listening ability, but also help them understand the target language better. As we have input enough information about dates and “when” questions, it will be easy for students to understand the listening material, so we may only let students listen to the conversation for one time and let them number the conversations. However, we can use the time we saved to make students to imitate the conversations. And by doing this, students’ listening and speaking abilities will be both developed.)
Step 7. Pairwork
Let students work in pairs and talk about their birthdays by using the sentence patterns as below:
A: When is your birthday
B: My birthday is …..
(Design purpose: After students mastering how to expressing dates, we’d better give them chance to practice what they learned. This activity gives students a real communicative environment to use the target language and helps students master the new sentence patterns and words better.)
Step 8. Practice
1. Let students read the following dates in English:
１月１５日
４月３０日
７月８日
１０月１日
５月２９日
２月１４日
2. Let students complete the following three conversations according to the hints.
(1) When is your birthday
My birthday is ____ the ___. (6月1日)
(2) When ___ your birthday
My birthday is ________the _____. （12月8日）
(3) When ____ your birthday
It is ____ the _________. （3月29日）
(Design purpose: For this period, our mainly objective is enabling students to talk about dates. So the consolidate exercise is quite necessary to test if we have successfully achieved our objectives. If not, we should try to help students understand the knowledge learned in this period better in next period.)
Ⅶ.Homework:
1. Listen and imitate the 3 conversations in 1b.
2. Ask about your family’s birthday
3. Try to find out the dates of the festivals you know in a year.
Ⅷ.Blackboard presentation
Unit 1 When is your birthday
Months
1. January Jan. 7. July Jul.
2. February Feb. 8. August Aug.
3. March Mar. 9. September Sep.
4. April Apr. 10. October Oct.
5. May May. 11. November Nov.
6. June Jun. 12. December Dec.
My birthday is ….