七年级英语上学期Unit8教案
Topic : Unit 8 When is your birthday? (7A) Periods: (4)
Language Goal: Talk about dates.
Emotional Goal: Take good care of their parents because they are getting old while they are growing up. They should not only remember their own birthday but also their parents?. Think of others more than themselves.
Ability Goal:Teach them how to search more information about scientists. Key words and expressions :
1. Months : January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,October,November,December.
2. Cardinal numbers:first,second,third,fourth,fifth,sixth,seventh, eighth,ninth,tenth,eleventh,twelfth,thirteenth,fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty_first, twenty_second, twenty_third,
twenty_fourth, twenty_fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth,twenty-ninth,thirtieth,thirty-first
3.Phrases:speech contest, school trip, basketball game, volleyball game, birthday/English party, school day, Art/Music Festival, Chorus Competition, Pop music,how old,date of birth Key sentences: 1.When is your birthday? My birthday is October tenth. 2.What year were you born? I was born in 1989. So you?re.....years and....months old. 3. How old are you ? I?m fifteen.
Teaching methods: Task-based teaching approach ;The cognitive approach; Audio_visual teaching method with CAI. Situational and communicational teaching method.
Learning Strategies: Personalizing; Self_evaluating; Let the students work in pairs to learn the cooperative learning
Pre_task: 1.Ask the students to make a survey/interview about their parents and some famous physicians including their dates of birth , names, ages, hobbies , dislikes and jobs. 2.Bring ID cards to the class. Teaching procedures Section A
Leading_in: Look at the picture of the calendar on the screen. Today we?re going to talk about the date of birth .(Read the title ?When is your birthday??)Do you want to know how old I am ? Now let me tell you: I was born in 1965.My birth date is on September 28th. Can you say that just like me? Now, let?s learn to say them in English, OK? Task 1.
1. Look at these months on the screen. Listen and repeat after the recording.
2. After that, ask the students to pay more attention to the spelling rules to the months. Teach them how to remember them very quickly.
3. Listen and number the conversations (1-3). Show them on the screen.
4. Ask and answer in pairs: A: When is your birthday?
B: My birthday is October tenth. Task 2
1.Do listening practice of 2a.Listen and repeat together. Then in groups/pairs/one by one. 2.Listen and circle the numbers in 2a.After that, teacher asks the following questions. (1) When is Leila?s birthday? (2) When is Nick?s birthday? (3) When is Robert?s birthday? (4) When is Jane?s birthday?
Then match the names, months and days. Show them on the screen.
3.Pairwork: make conversations according to the information in the form above. A: When is Leila?s birthday?
B: Her birthday is September 5 th. A: When is your birthday ?
B: My birthday is _______ ________. A: What year were you born? B: I was born in_________.
A: OK. So you are _____years old and ____ months old. Task 3
1. Ask the students to take out their ID cards. Then change them each other to make conversations in pairs.
2. Now, let?s look at a picture of a famous volleyball star in China. She is 44 years old. She is Chinese. She is a woman. But now she is in America. She is the coach of American Women?s Volleyball Team. Guess her name. Then show the picture on the screen. 3. Ask the students to make conversations like this: A: When is Lang Ping?s birthday? B: Her birthday is December 10 th. A: What year was she born ? B: She was born in 1960.
A: So, she is 44 years old and ____months old.
4. Show many photos of popular stars. Give their birth dates .Teacher can give a brief introduction about them. Their names are Liu Xiang(runner star), liu Ruoying(singer), Yao Ming(basketball star ,Ronald(football star),Zhang Guoli(movie star) ,Yang Liwei(astronaut), Zhoujie Lun(singer), Feng Xiaogang (famous director )and Xu Fan(actress).
5. Ask each pair to choose one of them that they like best. Make conversations the same as the dialogue above. Section B: Task 1
1.Listen and match the pictures and events. After listening, ask them to answer the questions: (1)When is the speech contest? (2)When is the school trip ? (3)When is the party ?
(4)When is the basketball game ?
After that, put them in the right order. Show the keys on the screen. Task 2
Listen again and fill in Joe?s calendar. After finishing it, look at the events and the dates given , practice dialogues in pairs. Conversation:
A: When is the volleyball game? B: It?s on October 30th . Task 3
Show another chart of one more events. Make conversations in pairs. Conversation:
A: What events do you have at your school? B: We have a School Art Festival each year. A: When is it? B: It?s in October.
A: Do you have a School Trip? B: Sorry, I don?t know. Self Check Activity 1
Make an interview and write an article according to the questions given below. 1. How old are you?
2. When is your birthday? 3. What year were you born? 4. What do you like?
5. Do you have a good friend? 6. What?s his/her name? 7. When is his/her birthday ? Activity 2
Look at these famous people. They are Nie Er , Lun Xun, Li Siguang, Wu Jianxiong, Deng Jiaxian, Ding Zhaozhong, Qian SanQiang, Yang Zhenning, Qian Xuesen, Beethoven, Newton, Einstein ,Edison, and Curie. They are all important persons. They are famous physicians(scientists),musicians, writers, geologists. Ask the students to make conversations in pairs.
Activity 3 Play a guessing game: Look at the following two pictures . Guess who they are. Describe them in English.
Activity 4 Enjoy “ Just for fun.”Show them one by one on the screen.Then ask them to act out the dialogue before the class.
Activity 5 Do Exercise 1 in book. . Activity 6 Homework
Write a short article about your parents or someone else that you know including names, dates of birth, ages, jobs, hobbies and dislikes.