新目标七上Unit 8 When is your birthday？Section A（第一课时）教案 2页

Unit8 When is your birthday?
第一课时 1a-2c
教学目标
1.Get students to learn to use When questions, possessive “s” and How old are you?
2 .Teach students to learn the months of the year and ordinal numbers1-31.
3.Get students to learn to talk about dates.
教学内容
New words: when, month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August,
September, October, November, December, happy, Happy birthday!
New sentences:
—When is your birthday?
—My birthday is…
重点难点
Words: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October,
November, December,
Sentences:
—When is your birthday?
—My birthday is…
教学步骤
I. Warming-up and revision
1. Listen to the birthday song, get the Ss to sing together.
2. Divide the class into Group A and B. Draw two fishes on the blackboard as their
symbols, tell the students that each time they answer questions right, they can get
one or more points for their group and draw one or more bubbles around their fish,
at the end of the class, the group which gets more bubbles will be the winner today.
Say, “One, two, three!” Get the whole class sit straight, thus announce the
beginning of the competition.
3. Review the unit 7. Show some key sentences in Chinese on the screen, have studen
ts translate them into English, get a student from each group to come to the front
and write down their answers on the blackboard, then check the answers, each correct
sentence will earn a point for the group.
II. Presentation
Teacher says: , “When is my birthday? My birthday is March 12th.” Get the students
to answer, “My birthday is …” Then teacher says, “It’s a good / nice answer.
I like your answer.”
On the screen show There are 12 months in a year. They are January, February, March,
April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.
Show the question “When is your birthday?” Underline “when”, tell the students
that it means “what time …”.



III. Listening drills (1)
Do Section A, 1b, listen and number the conversations (1-3).
Show the picture on page 1 on the screen with no words on it. Get student to listen
to the tape and try to repeat the sentences in the conversations, each correct
sentence will earn a point for the group.
IV. Pair-work.
Get the students listen to the conversations again and repeat after the tape, then
work in groups, practice the conversations with the partners.
Have some students come to the front and show their own conversation, then make a
comment on it (praise the students first) and give 2 to 4 points to their group.
V. Listening drills (2)
Do Section A, 2a. Listen and repeat.
Do Section A, 2b.Listen and circle the numbers you hear in 2a.
Do Section A, 2c. Listen again, matc h the names ,months and dates.
Listen for the last time.
VI. Homework
1. Listen and read after the tape for thirty minutes.
2. Recite the conversation of Section A, 2d.
3. Write down the Chinese meaning of the new words and key sentences, then translate
them into English.