Unit 8   When is your birthday?

The First Period 1(Section A, 1a–2d)

                        梓潼县文昌中学   李雪兰

Teaching aims and language points:

1. Learn these words and expressions, and be able to say, read and write them:

when, month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

the ordinal numbers from first to thirty-first

2. Be able to talk about one’s birthday by using:

l When is your/his/her birthday?

l My/His/Her birthday is on October 10th.

l When is Alice’s birthday?

l Her birthday is …

Teaching steps:

1. Warm-up and revision (课堂热身和复习)  

(1) Daily greeting to the students（日常问候）

(2) Revision（复习）: Review the cardinal numbers and some nouns by translating the following phrases.

11个足球     14个西红柿  28双红袜子  15顶帽子

31个乒乓拍   12条短裤   26个学生     18个毛衣

教学设计说明：

由于本课时要教序数词，所以通过汉译英复习基数词和名词，加强教学前后的联系。

2. Presentation (呈现新知识)  

   Present the new words: month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

T: What’s this in English? (show a picture of a calendar) . It’s a calendar. How many months are there in a year? There are 12 months in a year.

 (Get the Ss to guess what month and year mean.

Then, teach the Ss the names of the 12 months.)

用年历引出月份的名称，通过看图简单明了。

3. Working on 1a.

(1) Listen and repeat.

(2) Ask some individual Ss to read the new words

 again. Correct their pronunciations when necessary

由于单词多，拼读较难注意让学生跟录音反复朗读，检查学生的语音是否正确，及时纠正。.

4. A song.

Teach the Ss to sing the song of months.

教唱歌曲：月份歌，通过唱歌提高兴趣并记住月份名。

教唱歌曲：月份歌，通过唱歌提高兴趣并记住月份名。5. Ordinal Numbers (序数词)

(1) Present the ordinal numbers from first to twelfth.

T: What is January? (Help the Ss to answer.)

Ss: It’s the first month of the year.

(Repeat the questions and answers for the other

 months and present the ordinal numbers from second to twelfth.)

(2) Present some other ordinal numbers.

(3) Read the ordinal numbers chart on page 81 of the Students’ Book.

(4) Work on 2a. Listen and repeat.

(5) 基数词变为序数词的顺口溜

让学生了解基数词和序数词的联系，编出基编序的顺口溜，使学生容易记住序数词。

6. Work on 1b and 1c.

(1) Students listen and number the conversations. Check their answers quickly.

(2) Listen and repeat.

(3) Practice the conversations in pairs.

(4) Practice reading some dates.

听读1b加强听得训练，模仿跟读注重语音语调训练。

7. Groupwork. (小组活动)

  Ask the Ss to ask and answer about their

 own birthdays. Ask them to collect the

 birthdays of their group members and fill in the chart.

小组活动：以每人的生日为线索编对话，达到学以致用的目的，提高学生的兴趣。

8. Listening practice. (听力练习)

(1) Work on 2b. Listen and circle the numbers you hear in 2a.

(2) Work on 2c. Listen and match the names, months and dates.

(3) Listen and read the conversations after the recording.

听力中出现的名词所有格给与讲解。

9. Pairwork. (两人活动)

  Work on 2d.

(1) Talk about the children’s birthday in 2c using the sample conversation in the box.

(2) Ask your partner about the birthdays in his or her family

10. Homework（家庭作业）

1. Remember the new words we learned today.

2. Look at the chart below and write a conversation between you and Mike like the conversation in 2d.

这是自己在七年级上第八单元第一课时的一个教学设计。从教学设计来看，体现了本堂课的重难点。通过编顺口溜让学生记住基数词变序数词的方法。通过歌曲让学生记住月份名。把难记的枯燥的单词变得容易记了。提高了学生的学习兴趣。

但是，我在实际操作中发现了许多问题：1.本设计的课堂容量太大，对于基础差的班无法完成本节课的教学任务。2.本设计只突出听说，忽略了写，写只在家庭作业中体现了。

通过参加本次国培和研修，我有很多收获。首先，教学设计应从本班学生的实际出发，设计出切实可行的教案。而且要突出听、说、读、写四种技能。