Unit 8 When is your birthday

Period 1Unit 7 examPeriod 2Exam paper analysis and assignment analysisUnit 8 When is your birthday? Structures:When questions; Possessive “s”; How old are you?Target language:When is your birthday? My birthday is November 11th.When is Vera’s birthday? Vera’s birthday is January 21st.How old are you? I’m thirteen.Vocabulary:months of the year, ordinal numbers 1st -31stbirthday, party, speech contest, school tripLearning strategies: Role-playing, Self-evaluatingPeriod 1Section ATeaching aims:1To learn to use When questions, p ossessive “s” and How old are you?2To learn the months of the year and ordinal numbers1-313To learn to talk about datesTeaching ProceduresStep1 : Warming up by learning about grammar1.Wh- QuestionA question which begins with a wh- word, for example, Who are you? I’m Zhao Mingyuan. When is your birthday? →My birthday is November 11th.When is Vera’s birthday? →Vera’s birthday is January 21st.How old are you? →I’m thirteen.2. Possessive “s”Nouns may take an -'s ("apostrophe s") or GENITIVE MARKER to indicate possession:the boy's pen, a spider's web, my girlfriend's brother, John's houseIf the noun already has an -s ending to mark the plural, then the genitive marker appears only as an apostrophe after the plural form:the boys' pens, the spiders' webs, the Browns' houseStep 2 English text1a Listening and repeatingLook at the list of the twelve months of the year in 1a. Listen to the recording and repeat each word several times until you can read them correctly. When you read, please pay more attention to September, October, November and December. The stress comes on the middle syllable in these words. You should say the middle syllable louder than the other two: Sep-tem-ber, Oc-to-ber, No-vem-ber, De-cem-ber.Now look at the board. Here are the abbreviated versions of the twelve months: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec. Let’s ask some students to come to the front to tell us the full forms of them.2b Listening and NumberingLook at these three conversations and read them out. Listen to the recording and number them in the right order.Check the answers: 1, 2, 3Conversation 1A: When is your birthday?B: My birthday is October tenth.Conversation 2A: When is your birthday, Mary?B: My birthday is January fifteenth.Conversation 3A: When is your birthday, Jeff?B: My birthday is June fourth.1c Doing pairworkNow Listen to the recording again and practice the conversation with your partner. And then I’ll ask some students to perform their conversations for the class.Now it’s time to read. Read the tapescript to darken the When questions.2a Listening and repeatingIn unit 7 we learned the numbers ten to thirty-one. Now we are going to study the ordinal numbers from first to thirty-first. Look at the list of ordinal numbers in 2a. Listen to the recording and repeat each ordinal number. As you are reading, please pay attention to the pronunciation and the spelling.Tapescript: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-first2b Listening and circlingHere is a conversation between a teacher and students. They are talking about the class birthday. Listen carefully and circle the numbers in 2a that you hear on the recording.Tapescript:Teacher: Now, let’s fill in the class birthday calendar. Leila, when’s your birthday?Leila:It’s September 5th, Mr. fisher.Teacher: Oh, OK. And how about you Nick?Nick: July 4th.Teacher: And Robert?Robert: My birthday is January 17th.Teacher: January 17th. OK. And Jane, when’s your birthday?Jane: August 22nd.Check the answers: 5th, 4th, 17th, 22ndRead the tapescript to darken the questions and study their structures.2c Listening and matchingLook at the box and picture in 2c. There are three columns about names, months and dates. Read them aloud and listen to the recording again. This time please draw a line connecting eachperson’s name with the month and date of his or her birthday.Check the answers:Leila---September 5th Nick---July 4thRobert---January 17th Jane---August` 22nd2d Doing pairworkNow please work in pairs to practice the conversation about your birthday and your parents’ birthday. You can follow the conversation outline in 2d.Sample conversation:A: When is your birthday?B: My birthday is May 22nd.A:When is your mother’s birthday?B: Her birthday is January 18th.A:And when is your father’s birthday?B: His birthday is February 6th.Period 2Teaching aimsStep 1 English text3a Doing pairworkThere are three ID cards in 3a. These ID c ards tell us persons’ names, birthdays and ages. Read the conversation about the first ID card and make your conversations with your partner using the information of the other two ID cards. Then I’ll ask some pairs to perform the conversations. Samples:1. S1: When is your birthday, William?S2: It’s November 12th.S1: How old are you?S2: I’m thirteen.2. S1: When is your birthday, Tina?S2: It’s June 3rd.S1: How old are you?S2: I’m seventeenth.3d Doing pairworkJust now we had conversations about John, William and Tina. Now please have conversations with your partner about your own birthdays and your ages. You can interview each other and you should tell the truth. Then some pairs shall come to present their conversations to the class. Closing up by the birthday gameLook at the picture of people lined up from youngest to oldest. How old are they? Can you guess? Any reasonable answer is OK. Now let’s play the birthday game in groups. Talk to your classmates in your group. Ask and answer the questions about their birthdays and ages and line them up from youngest to oldest as in the picture.Step 2 assignment analyPeriod 3Section BTeaching aims1To learn some new expressions2To learn to talk about datesTeaching ProceduresStep 1 English textWarming up by meeting new expressionsLast class we learned the names of twelve months and ordinal numbers from first to thirty-first. Today we are learning some new expressions. They are speech contest, school trip, basketball game, party, school day, and music festival and so on. Look at the pictures. They can tell us the meanings of these phrases.School trip school day music festivalspeech contest birthday party basketball gameNow say each one of them after me.1 MatchingLook at the expressions in the box. Match the pictures and the events. Write the letters of the pictures on the lines next to the numbers.Check the answers:1. speech contest d2. party c3. school trip b4. basketball game a2a Listening and checkingNow we’ll hear a conversation about the pictures in part1. Listen carefully and make a checkmark to the right of each word that you here on the recording.Check the answers:All the items should be checked:party, basketball game, school trip, speech contestTapescript:Joe:Hey, Sally. Can you help me fill in my calendar?Sally: Sure, Joe.Joe:When is your birthday party?Sally: My birthday party is October 5th.Joe: OK and when is the basketball game?Sally:The basketballs game? Oh, it’s October 2nd.Joe: Good. And, um, how about the school trip?Sally: The school trip is September 26th and 27th.Joe:And when’s the speech contest?Sally:Oh, that’s Friday, September 29th.Joe:Great.2b Listening and fillingAccording to the conversation between Joe and Sally, we know there are four events in September and October. When are the events, do you remember? Please listen to the recording again and write the name of each event in the correct place on the calendar. Look at the chart. One of them is given. You’ll write the other events.Check the answers:the school trip---September 26th and 27ththe speech contest---September 29ththe basketball game---October 2ndthe (birthday) party---October 5th2c Doing pairworkLook at the speech bubbles and read the conversation aloud. Ask and answer more questions with your partner using information from the calendar in 2b.Sample conversation:S1:When is Sally’s birthday party?S2:It’s October fifth.S1: When is speech contest?S2:It’s September 29th.Now let’s ask some pairs to present their conversations to the class.3a Doing pairworkHere is an uncompleted events list of October in 3a. Now work in pairs to complete the task. One person looks at the chart on page 51 and the other looks at the one on page 84. Each of you has only half of the information. Your job is to get the rest of the information from your partner. Check the answers:A:When’s the basketball game?B:It’s on October 3rd.B:When’s the English speech contest?A:It’s on October 7th.A: Whe n’s the Dave’s birthday party?B:It’s on October 29th.B:When’s the school trip?A:It’s on October 26th and 27th.A:When’s the volleyball game?B:It’s on October 30th.3b Doing pairworkLook at the chart in 3b. There 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 imitating the sample dialogue to complete the chart. You can choose to have any of the events listed, and whichever dates you prefer for these events.Sample dialogue:A: Do you have a school day at your school?B: Yes, we do.A: When is it?B:It’s April 19th.A: Do you have an Art Festival?B: Yes, we do. We have an Art Festival on June 5th.A: Do you have a Chinese Contest?B:No, we don’t.Closing down by doing groupworkNow please write a small passage about yourself. You must write at least fivethings. You can write how old you are, when your birthday is and the food orthe movies or anything you like or don’t like. Then please exchange yourpapers with your group mates several times. And I’ll ask students to take turns to read the passages to class. After a student reads a passage, please guess, who is it? Sample passage:I’m fifteen years old. My birthday is January 1st. I like baseball and volleyball. I like comedies and Beijing Opera but I don’t like thrillers because they’re too scar y. My favorite food is French fries and tomato sauce. They are very delicious.Period 4Self checkTeaching aims1To revise the key words of this unit2To practice writing months and datesTeaching Procedures1 CheckingPlease open your book at page 52 and look at part 1. Check all the words you know. If you have2 WritingWrite five new words in your notebook and share your list with your partners in your group.3 WritingLook at the photos of these famous people. Do you know their names? Please look at the names under the pictures. They are great in history. How old do you think he or she is? You can work together to try to find their names and birthdays. If you can’t complet e the task, you can surf the Internet after class to find the information about them. We can check the answers next time. Check the answers:Listening to a funny story.A cat and her four kittens ran into a large dog. When the kittens cowered, the cat let out a series of loud barks, scaring the dog away.Turning to her kittens, the cat said, "You see how important it is to know a second language."。