Unit 1 Teaching plan

Unit 1: When is your birthday?
Part 1: Teaching Design
第一部分:教学设计
Period 1: Listening and Speaking (Page 1)
(When is your birthday?)
Objectives
●To learn to talk about dates
●To learn to use When questions
Procedures
■Warming up by going over titles/ structures
Hi, class. Before we take Unit 1, let’s go over all the titles/ structures we learned in the past and the one we are going to learn today.
1a Listening and repeating
Look at the list of the twelve months of the year in 1a. Read after me one by one.
2b Listening and numbering
Look at the three conversations and read aloud them after me.
Now listen to the recording and number them in the right order. (1-2-3)
1c PAIRWORK 结对活动
Now Listen to the recording again and practice the conversation with your partner.
Period 2: Listening and Speaking (Page 2)
(My birthday is October tenth.)
Objectives
●To learn to use When questions
●To learn to use p ossessive‘s’
Procedures
■Warming up by learning the grammar focus and ordinal number
Hello, class. Look at this sentence：When is your birthday? 何时是你的生日？My birthday is May 4th. 我的生日是五月四日。

2a Listening and repeating
Look at the list
of ordinal numbers in 2a. Listen and repeat. As you are reading, please pay attention to the pronunciation and the spelling.
2b Listening and circling
Here is a conversation between a teacher and students. They are talking about the class birthday. Listen carefully and circle the numbers in 2a. (5th, 4th , 17th , 22nd) 2c Listening and matching
Look at the box and picture on page 2 in 2c. There are three columns: names, months and dates. Read them aloud. Now listen to the recording again and match the names, the months and dates. Now let ’s go to page 2. Let ’s read aloud the tapescript.
While reading try to find all the When questions and underline all the expressions. That’s grammar
study, indeed.
Now let’s talk as they do in the conversation. We are going to talk in imitation of the conversation we have just heard and read.
Now read the conversation again to turn it into a text.
2d PAIRWORK 结对活动
Now please work in pairs to ask each other about your and your parents’ birthday.
Period 3: Speaking (Page 3)
(How old are you?)
Objectives
●To learn to use p ossessive‘s’
●To learn to speak How old are you?
Procedures
■Warming up by studying How old are you? And Possessive‘s’
Hello, class. What’s my name? OK. My name is Zhao Ping. How old am I? 我是多大了？I am fourty-nine. How old are you? 你多大了？You are twelve. When is you birthday? You birthday is April 11th. When is Li Hui Fang’s bithday? 李慧芳的生日是什么时候啊？
3a PAIRWORK 结对活动
There are three ID cards in 3a on page 3. Now in pairs choose an ID card and make a conversation.
3d PAIRWORK 结对活动
Ask and answer about each other’s name, age and date of birth.
4 THE Birthday GAME生日游戏
Look at the picture ON PAGE 3. How old are they? Can you guess?
Ask and answer about ONE ANOTHER’S birthday and age and line up from youngest to oldest.
Period 4: Matching, Listening and Speaking (Page 4)
(When is your birthday party?)
Objectives
●To learn to talk about dates
●To learn to use When questions
Procedures
■Warming up by making up sentences
Hello, class. To begin with, let’s make sentences with the two groups of words below. Let’s see who can make the most sentences.
1 Looking and matching
Look at the expressions in the box. Match the pictures and the events.
2a Listening and checking
Now we’ll hear a conversation about the pictures on page 4. Listen carefully and check the events.
2b Listening and filling
Please listen to the recording again and write the name of each event in the correct place in the calendar on page 4.
Now go to read this conversation. While reading try to find all the wh-questions and answers.
Go over the conversation again. And also cut/ the sentence into thought groups, study all the predicates, circle all the linking words and underline all the expressions. That’s grammar study, indeed.
2c PAIRWORK 结对活动
Look at the speech bubbles and read the conversation aloud. Ask and answer more questions about name, age and birthday.
Period 5: Speaking (Page 5)
(When is the school trip?)
Objectives
●To learn to use p ossessive‘s’
●To learn to speak How old are you?
Procedures
■Warming up by learning cardinal numbers
Hello, class. What are these? Yes, they are socks. How much are they? They are two dollars each. How many socks are there? Let’s see how many sock we have here. One, two, three…
3a PAIRWORK 结对活动
In pairs ask and answer questions to complete the schedules on page 5 and 67.
3b PAIRWORK 结对活动
Look at the chart on page 5. This is a list of the events. Do you like these events? Which of these events will you have at your school?
Now imagine you are a school headmaster. Ask and answer questions to complete the chart.
4 GROUPWORK 小组活动
Now please write at least five things about yourself. Then please exchange your information with your group mates. And I’ll ask students to take turns to read your writings to the class.。