1、Unit 8 When is your birthday Section B(1a-2a)I. Teaching objectives:1. Knowledge objectives:(1) Students will be able to master the following words and phrases:date, Calendar, speech, contest, party, trip, basketball game, test .(2) Students will be able to use the following sentence patterns proper

2、ly: - Whats the date?- Its . - When is.?- Its.2. Ability objectives:(1) Students will be able to talk about their birthday.(2) Students will be able to get information about peoples schedules by doing listening activities.(3) Students will be able to repeat the listening material after the tape. (4)

3、 Students will be able to make their own calendar.3. Emotional objectives:Students will find that they have many activities to do at school and enjoy their school lives better by talking about different kind of school activities.II. Learning and teaching focus:1. The expressions of talking about the

4、 dates of activities.2. make the students calendar .III. Teaching methods1. Audio -lingual method.2. Communicative approach.3. Situation - experienced methodIV. Teaching aids:Multi-media equipmentsV. Teaching proceduresStep 1. Warming upAt the beginning of class ,We will play a game .Let the Student

5、s revise the numbers from one and first to thirty-one and thirty-first. I say “one”, you say “first”.T: One, BB: First. Two, C.C: Second. Three, D.Step 2. Lead in & Revise1. Ask students the following a question and let them try to answer them: -Whats the date today?-Its December 2nd.Last Friday san

6、g a song for me, Why did her sing it for me?Can you guess when my birthday is?2. Show a calendar on the screen and teach the new word calendar”. and let students talk about the dates use the sentence patterns as below.- Whats the date?- Its.Step 3. Presentation1.Let the students guess the months of

7、some important holidays. and then ,do exercise to writer the dates of some holidays in our country. 2. Show different kinds of pictures in 1a to teach the new words like birthday party, basketball game, school trip, etc. and try to match the pictures with the activities.3. While presenting and teach

8、ing the new words, guide students to answer following two questions:- Do you have .?- Yes, we do. / No, we dont.- When is it?- Its .Step 4. Listening1. Tell the students they are going to listen to a conversation about the pictures. Let them listen carefully and circle the events they hear.2. Play t

9、he recording, ask students to listen and circle what they hear.3. Check the answers.4. Point to the calendar showing the September and October dates in 1c. Let students listen carefully to the recording again and write the name of each event in the correct place on the calendar as the example shows in the calendar.5. Play the recording again. Students try to complete Joes calendar according to the recording they hear.6. Check the answers.Step 7. Groupwork1. Let students work in groups to make their own calendar.2. Let some students give reports about their calendars.VI. Homewor