人教新目标英语七年级上册Unit8单元知识点复习

人教新目标英语七年级上册

Unit 8 When is your birthday? 语言要点

1. --- When is your birthday?

--- My birthday is November 11th.

--- When is Sarah's birthday?

--- Sarah's birthday is January 21st.

在询问某人的生日时，使用when引导的特殊疑问句。日期的常用表达方式有两种：（1）月日年，如：November 11，2005；（2）日月年，如：11 November，2005。

2. --- How old are you?

--- I am fifteen.

人的年龄时，使用how old 引导的特殊疑问句。

3. --- When is the volleyball game?

--- It's April 19th.

Unit 8 When is your birthday? 读写综合

任务一：阅读关于名人生日的短文，把他们的名字写在日历相应的日期上。

任务二：假设Bill Gate 将要在你的学校做一次关于电脑程序设计的演讲，为了使大部分初一的学生都听得明白，他请你根据他的资料帮他写一个英文介绍（40-50词）。

任务三：根据中文意思写出英文日期。如果你可以把中文意思翻译成英文，那就试一下吧。

参考答案：

任务一：February 1st: Clark Gable February 4th: Nie Er February 11th: Thomas

Edison February 12th: Abraham Lincoln February 23rd: Liang Qichao

任务二：Hello, everyone! I am Bill Gates. I am from the US. I am fifty years now. My birthday is October 28. My birthplace is Seattle, a nice city in the west of America. I have a happy family. There are two daughters and my wife. I like reading, playing golf and bridge.

任务三：New Year's Day: January 1 May Day: May 1 Children's Day: June 1 National Day: October 1 Planting Trees Day: March 12 Christmas Eve: December 24 Christmas: December 25 April Fools Day: April 1

Unit 8 When is your birthday? 学习目标

Unit 8 When is your birthday? 词汇

1. date

date意为“日期”，用于问句时，回答要具体地说出某日，也可包括某月或某年。但不要与day相混，day是指“星期几”。比较：

A: What's the date today?

B: It's 5 July, 2006.

A: What day is it today?

B: It's Friday.

另外，我们知道汉语中日期的写法是从年到月到日这个顺序排列，而英语中日期的写法可以从月、日到年，也可从日、月再到年。例如：2006年8月30日的英文写法可以是August 30, 2006，也可以是30 August, 2006。

2. old

old主要有以下几种用法：（1）表示“岁数大的”，如：get old变老，old Tom老汤姆（汤姆爷爷）；（2）表示年龄，相当于age，如：How old are you? 你多大了？（而不是

“你有多老了？”）又如：I'm twenty years old. 我二十岁了。（3）表示“旧的”，与“新的”相对。如：a pair of old shoes一双旧鞋。

3. 基数词变序数词

Unit 8 When is your birthday? 文化背景知识介绍

广东省教育厅教研室

1. Ask students about which age groups in their culture like to talk about how old they are and which age groups don't. In the United States, young children like to tell how old they are. Teenagers are sometimes sensitive about age questions because they want people to think they are older than they really are. After age 25, it is not considered polite to ask someone's age, except for business reasons. Many people in the United States think it's good to be young and bad to be old. How is it in the students' culture? Do teenagers like to tell their ages? Do younger or older adults get more respect?

2. Most American children celebrate birthdays with a cake with lighted candles on top, one candle for each year of their age. The birthday boy (or girl) is supposed to make a wish (without telling anyone what it is) and blow out the candles. If he blows out all of the candles with one breath, the wish will come true. Singing "Happy Birthday to You" is also a tradition on birthdays.

Some birthdays are more important than other birthdays, especially in the life of a teenager and young adult.

Age 13: becomes a teenager

Age 16: can obtain a driver's license in the United States (for an automobile)

Age 18: can register to vote

Age 21: can legally drink alcohol

In regard to astrology, many Americans know their sign (of the Zodiac) but most people do not seriously believe in astrology. In China, people sometimes celebrate their lunar birthday rather than their solar birthday. Chinese people also use twelve animals to symbolize the year in which one is born. The animals represent the twelve Earthly Branches, and they are the rat, the cattle, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig.