1、Unit 1 Our birthdaysTask objectivesUnderstand a series of instructions and act accordinglyRelate personal experience and information about family and friends by eliciting and responding to simple questionsRecognize rhythm in simple rhymes or poemsProvide information by using graphs, tables and poste
2、rsLanguage focusWhens Grandmas birthday?Its in September.Is your birthday on May 17?Yes, it is.The first periodA. Pat is making a birthday calendar. Koko is talking to her. Listen, look and say.Presentation1. Bring in a large wall calendar in English.2. Show the pupils the wall calendar. Say This is
3、 a calendar. Point to each month. Tell the pupils This is one month. Show the pupils and read aloud the names of the week from Sunday to Saturday. Teacher: There are seven days in a week. They are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.Tell the pupils to use and before the
4、 last item in the list.3. Ask the pupils How many months are there? Ask them to say after me the names of the months in order.T: There are twelve months in a year. They are January, February, March 4. Show Transparency. Play the Pupils Book Cassette and point to the speech bubbles. Ask the pupils to
5、 repeat after the cassette.Practice1. Read the conversation between Pat and Koko. Ask the pupils to repeat the conversation after me. Let them finish reciting the names of the months by themselves.2. Ask the pupils Which month is it? Whats the date today?Play a game1. Make a quiz for the pupils. Wri
6、te the names of the months using the letters in the wrong order. Also mix up the order of the months, for example, GASTUU= August. Tell the pupils to unscramble the letters. See who can be first to finish.2. Play Bingo using the months of the year.课后记1 本课的单词多，难度大，尤其是12个月份的单词的读音和要反复练习， 变化各种方法学习和巩固。2
7、There are和They are的用法很多学生分不清楚，要做对比练习。The second periodRevisionHow many days are there in a week? What are they?How many months are there in a year? What are they?B1. Tim and his mother are talking. Its Grandmothers birthday soon. Listen, say and act.PresentationAsk individual pupils Whens your birth
8、day? Get them to answer My birthday is in (month).Practice1. Show Transparency. Play the Pupils Book Cassette. Explain that Tim is going to use his saved money to buy Grandma a present.2. Read the conversation and ask the class to read it after me. Practise the falling intonation for the question Wh
9、ens Grandmas birthday?3. Demonstrate the conversation in picture 2. Get the pupils to repeat the conversation after me.4. Ask two pupils to role-play Tim and his mother in picture 2.5. Tell the pupils to work in pairs. Ask them to look at picture 3, 4 and 5 and role-play Tim and his mother.6. Ask Wh
10、ens s birthday? about the people in the thought bubbles in pictures 2, 3, 4 and 5.Pair workGet the pupils to work in pairs to ask each other Whens your birthday?B2. Koko is making a list of her friends birthdays. Listen, say and act.Presentation1. Write the numbers 1 to 20 on the board in a row. Tel
11、l the pupils that when we say the date we add th to most numbers. Add th to numbers 4 to 20.2. Point to number 1. Ask the pupils if they know what we add to 1 when we say dates. Write st and say we have a special way of saying number one when its a date. We say first. Write the word first on the boa
12、rd. Ask the pupils to say the word after me.3. Repeat the procedure to teach second and third. Continue by showing the pupils how the spelling changes for fifth, ninth, twelfth and twentieth. Write 21, 22 and 23 underneath 1, 2 and 3. Ask the pupils to guess how we write twenty-first, twenty-second
13、and twenty-third. Ask the pupils to guess how to spell thirtieth and how to change 31 into a date. Tell the pupils to count with me from first to thirty-first.4. Ask a pupil to stand up and tell the class My birthday is in (month). Invite the other pupils to guess when his/her birthday is. Model the
14、 way to ask by guessing myself, e.g. Is your birthday on June twenty-third? Check that the pupils are saying on rather than in and that the th at the end of the ordinal number is clear.Practice1. Show Transparency. Explain that Koko is asking her friends about their birthdays. Read Koko and Kens con
15、versation and ask the pupils to repeat it after me.2. Ask the pupils to work in pairs to role-play Koko and Ken.课后记1 介词in和on的用法和区别。很多学生混淆。2 强调表达日期要用序数词。学生的熟练程度要加强。The third periodRevisionWhats the date today?Whens your birthday?Whens your mothers birthday?B3. Listen and circle the correct dates.Show
16、 the pupils there are three dates next to the picture of each child. Play the Pupils Book Cassette. Tell the pupils to listen and circle the correct dates.C. A story: Great-grandpas birthday.1. Point to the characters in the pictures and read their speech bubbles aloud. Ask the pupils to point to th
17、e speech bubbles as I read them. Ask the pupils a prediction question at the end of picture 3, What day is today? (Its Great-grandpas birthday.)2. Play the tape for the pupils and ask them to listen. Play the cassette again and ask them to say the sentences after the cassette.3. Ask the pupils to ro
18、le-play the story in groups of four and to read the characters speech bubbles.D. Read the story again. Write the answers.Ask the pupils to read the story again. Show them where to write their answers. Check the answers with the pupils.课后记1 学生对以下三个句子的问答混淆、模糊Whens your birthday? What day is today? Wha
19、ts the date today?2 表示日期时用序数词有些学生容易说错为基数词。The fourth periodRevisionWhat day is today?Whats the date today?Whens your birthday?E. Say the sound and the words.1. Play the Pupils Book Cassette and ask the pupils to listen to the sound and the words.2. Say the words slowly and clearly. Check that the pu
20、pils are saying the sound correctly.3. Point to the pictures and check that the pupils can say the words.4. Play the cassette again. Ask the pupils to listen to the poem and then circle the same letters with the same sound. Get the pupils to repeat the poem.F. Make a birthday train.1. Ask the pupils
21、 to find friends with a birthday in the same month with them and get into groups.2. Within their groups, the pupils find out the birthdays of their group members in order to get into order of dates.3. Ask each pupil to cut out the train car on page 77 and write the date of their birthday on the carr
22、iage.4. Tell the pupils to line up in order of their birthdays and to present their train by saying who is the first, the second, the third and so on.G. Sing the song.Play the cassette for the pupils to listen to the song and then encourage them to join in with the words.H. Think about it!Ask the pu
23、pils how many birthdays Xiaoming has had (three). Ask them to divide his age (twelve) by the number of birthdays (three). Which date only happens once every four years? (February 29th).Dictation about the words and sentences in unit 1.The fifth periodDo Workbook exercisesWorkbook (p.1)Tell the pupil
24、s to look at the months in the box and write the correct months in the word puzzle. Then ask the pupils to complete the sentence by writing the correct month of Sams birthday.Workbook (p.2)Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and listen to the Workbook Cassette. Then ask them to write the correct
25、months according to what they hear on the tape.Workbook (p.3)Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and listen to the cassette. Then ask them to circle the correct dates for the peoples birthdays according to what they hear on the tape.Workbook (p.4)Play the tape. The pupils need to circle the words
26、 with the same sound and the same letters according to what they hear on the tape.Tell the pupils to look at the pictures and fill in the blanks.Workbook (p.5)Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and read the sentences. Then tell them to complete the dialogues by writing the correct sentences in the blanks.Workbook (p.6)Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and read the conversation. Then tell them to complete the dialogues by writing the correct words in the blanks.
