Unit 5 When was he born教案和反思

Unit 5 When was he born? Teaching Design for Section A 1a-2c

Structures

Passive voice; Special questions: When / How long questions

Language goals

To learn about passive voice

To learn to use when / how long questions

To talk about famous people

To learn the simple past tense

Target language

Who’s that?

That’s Deng Yaping. She is a great ping-pong player.

When was she born? She was born in 1973.

How long did he hiccup?

He hiccupped for 69 years and 5 months.

When did she start sneezing?

She started on January 13, 1981.

Vocabulary

born, international, sneeze, hiccup, start, stop

Learning strategies

Cooperating, Using what you know, Pair work

Procedures

Warming up by learning about years and some numbers

1a Talking about international sports stars

Show some pictures and asking some questions

Hello, everyone! Today I’ll take you to visit a museum, International Sports Stars Museum.

Look at this person? Do you know who she is? Yes, that’s Deng Yaping.

Play a video about her. Then move on to Michael Jordan. Ask: When was he born? Do you know?

Then listen to the tape, and find out the answers to the three people --- Michael Jordan, David Beckham and Martina Hingis.

1b Listening and writing

Listen to the tape and write the year when the sports stars were born. I will play it twice. First time you can only listen and the second time you can write.

Tape scripts

Conversation 1

Boy: Who's that?

Girl: That's Deng Yaping. She's a great Chinese ping-pong player.

Boy: When was she born?

Girl: She was born in 1973

Conversation 2

Girl: Who's that?

Boy: That’s Michael Jordan. He’s a great American basketball player.

Girl: When was he born?

Boy: He was born in 1963.

Conversation 3

Boy: Who's that?

Girl: That's Martina Hingis. She's a great Swiss tennis player.

Boy: When was she born?

Girl: She was born in 1980.

Conversation 4

Girl: Who's that?

Boy: That's David Beckham. He's a great British soccer player.

Girl: When was he born?

Boy: He was born in 1975.

Answers

Deng Yaping: 1973 Michael Jordan: 1963 Martina Hingis: 1980 David Beckham: 1975

Read the tape scripts and try to underline the expressions and the when questions

1c Doing pair work

First let’s look at the dialogue about Deng Yaping. Please read it after me. When you read please pay attention to the pronunciations and intonations.

Now make the similar dialogue about Yao Ming with your partners. I’d like to ask some pair to act it out. 2a Listening and filling the chart

Look at the two videos. What are they doing? Learn the new words

hiccup (hiccupping, hiccupped) 打嗝

sneeze (sneezing, sneezed) 打喷嚏

world record means the best in the world

Let’s listen to the tape carefully and fill in the chart below ”How long”.

While listening, try to get the important thing --- “how long”

Tape script

Girl: Who's that?

Boy: Charles Smith. He holds the world record for hiccupping. He hiccupped for 69 years and 5 months. Girl: When did he start hiccupping?

Boy: He started hiccupping in 1922.

Girl: And when did he stop?

Boy: He stopped in 1990.

Girl: How could he hiccup for that long?

Boy: I don't know. Oh, look, this is Donna Green.

Girl: What's she famous for?

Boy: Sneezing. She sneezed for 978 days.

Girl: Really? When did she start sneezing?

Boy: Let's see. It says she started sneezing on January 13, 1981, and she sneezed until September 16, 1983.

Girl: Wow! That's a long time.

Who hold world record How long Started Stopped

Charles Smith hiccupping 69 years and 5 months

Danna Green sneezing 978 days

2b Listening and filling in the chart left.

Listen again and fill in the “started” and “stopped” columns.

Who hold world record How long Started Stopped