教学目标

单词：March ，April， May ，June ，July， August ，September ，October ，November ，December，writer, real, newspaper, exact, date, become
短语：Find out, at the age of, in the 1860s, Teachers’ Day,… be born, as well
句型：(1).Hey, we can find out about him on the Internet (2)He left school and began work at the age of 12. (3).Later he got work on a boat.  (4).He took the name Mark Twain and became very famous. (5).Did Mark Twain leave school at 16?  
教学重点 
单词的把握和短语的应用。
教学难点 一般过去时的句型转换。(重点不规则动词过去式)
 

 师生互动个案补充
 Step1 : warming-up：
teacher： When is your birthday?  
When is your mother’s birthday? 
How many festivals are there in a year ? 
What are they? 
Which festival do you like best?  
 When is it? 
Step2 : preparation
Ask some students what month and years they were born in. Write the months and years on the board and ask the class to repeat them.
Ask the student to come to the front and say a month aloud. Students who were born in that month should stand up .
Students take turns to do the activity .
Step 3 : 
Match the festivals with the months.
Ask the students to give the names of some festivals they know.
Write down the festivals on the board and ask the students to read them aloud.
Now ask students to work in pairs to match the festivals with the months in Activity 1.
Tell them to check with their partners .
Step 4 :
Listen and choose the correct answers .  
Show a picture of a grandfather to the class.
Put the following questions on the board and tell students to work in pairs and ask each other.
1> What was life like for your grandparents when they were young?
2> Was it the same  or different from yours?
3> Did they watch Tv?
4> Where were they born ?
5> Where did they live when they were young ?
Ask the class about what what they’ve found out about each other’s grandparents.
Tell students to read the three statements about betty’s grandfather and guess the answers.
Play the recording twice and tell students to check in pairs.
Play the recording again to check.
Step 5: Do exercises  
根据句意写单词：
1. Spring festival is in ________ or _________.
2.  Women’s day  is in __________.
3.  Teacher’s day is in ___________.
4.  Christmas is in ____________.
5.  National day is in ______________.
6.  New year’s day is in _____________.
7.  May day is in ___________.
8.  Children’s day is in _________________.
9.  My grandfather’s life was  ___________(不同的) from mine.
10. Mark Twain ________(变成) a newspaper writer.
11. He wrote for a _________ (报纸).
12. He left school and ________(开始) work at the age of twelve. 
板书设计

March ， April，  May ， June ， July ， August ， September  ，October  ，
November  ，December ，writer , real , newspaper , exact , date  , become
When is your birthday?  
When is your mother’s birthday?  
How many festivals are there in a year ? 
What are they? 
Which festival do you like best?