Unit 1 Our birthdaysTask objectivesUnderstand a series of instructions and act accordinglyRelate personal experience and information about familyand friends by eliciting and responding to simple questionsRecognize rhythm in simple rhymes or poemsProvide information by using graphs, tables and postersLanguage focusWhen’s Grandma’s birthday?It’s 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 andsay.Presentation第 1 页


1.Bring in a large wall calendar in English.2.Show the pupils the wall calendar. Say This is acalendar. Point to each month. Tell the pupils This is onemonth. Show the pupils and read aloud the names ofthe week from Sunday to Saturday. Teacher: There are seven days in a week. They areSunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday, Friday and Saturday.Tell the pupils to use ‘and’ before the last item in the list.3.Ask the pupils How many months are there? Ask themto 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 Pupil’s Book Cassette andpoint to the speech bubbles. Ask the pupils to repeatafter the cassette.Practice1.Read the conversation between Pat and Koko. Ask thepupils to repeat the conversation after me. Let themfinish reciting the names of the months by themselves.2.Ask the pupils Which month is it? What’s the datetoday?第 2 页


Play a game1.Make a quiz for the pupils. Write the names of the months using theletters in the wrong order. Also mix up the order of the months, forexample, GASTUU= August. Tell the pupils to unscramble the letters. Seewho 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．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. It’s Grandmother’s birthday soon. Listen,say and act.PresentationAsk individual pupils When’s your birthday? Get them to answer Mybirthday is in (month).Practice1.Show Transparency. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette. Explain that Tim is第 3 页


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 thefalling intonation for the question When’s Grandma’s birthday?3.Demonstrate the conversation in picture 2. Get the pupils to repeat theconversation 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 androle-play Tim and his mother.6.Ask When’s …’s birthday? about the people in the thought bubbles inpictures 2, 3, 4 and 5.Pair workGet the pupils to work in pairs to ask each other When’s your birthday?B2. Koko is making a list of her friends’ birthdays. Listen, say andact.Presentation1.Write the numbers 1 to 20 on the board in a row. Tell the pupils that whenwe 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 wesay dates. Write st and say we have a special way of saying number onewhen it’s a date. We say first. Write the word first on the board. Ask thepupils to say the word after me.3.Repeat the procedure to teach second and third. Continue by showing thepupils 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 howwe write twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third. Ask the pupils toguess how to spell thirtieth and how to change 31 into a date. Tell thepupils 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). Invitethe other pupils to guess when his/her birthday is. Model the way to askby guessing myself, e.g. Is your birthday on June twenty-third? Check thatthe pupils are saying on rather than in and that the th at the end of theordinal number is clear.Practice1.Show Transparency. Explain that Koko is asking her friends about theirbirthdays. Read Koko and Ken’s conversation and ask the pupils to repeatit 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 period第 4 页


RevisionWhat’s the date today?When’s your birthday?When’s your mother’s birthday?B3. Listen and circle the correct dates.Show the pupils there are three dates next to the picture of each child.Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette. Tell the pupils to listen and circle the correctdates.C. A story: Great-grandpa’s birthday.1.Point to the characters in the pictures and read their speech bubblesaloud. Ask the pupils to point to the speech bubbles as I read them. Askthe pupils a prediction question at the end of picture 3, What day is today?(It’s Great-grandpa’s birthday.)2.Play the tape for the pupils and ask them to listen. Play the cassette againand ask them to say the sentences after the cassette.3.Ask the pupils to role-play the story in groups of four and to read thecharacters’ speech bubbles.D. Read the story again. Write the answers.Ask the pupils to read the story again. Show them where to write theiranswers. 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When’s your birthday? What day is today? What’s 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?What’s the date today?When’s your birthday?E. Say the sound and the words.1.Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette and ask the pupils to listen to the sound andthe words.2.Say the words slowly and clearly. Check that the pupils are saying thesound correctly.第 5 页


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 thencircle the same letters with the same sound. Get the pupils to repeat thepoem.F. Make a birthday train.1.Ask the pupils to find friends with a birthday in the same month with themand get into groups.2.Within their groups, the pupils find out the birthdays of their groupmembers 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 oftheir birthday on the carriage.4.Tell the pupils to line up in order of their birthdays and to present theirtrain 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 encouragethem to join in with the words.H. Think about it!Ask the pupils how many birthdays Xiaoming has had (three). Ask them todivide his age (twelve) by the number of birthdays (three). Which date onlyhappens once every four years? (February 29th).Dictation about the words and sentences in unit 1.The fifth periodDo Workbook exercisesWorkbook (p.1)Tell the pupils to look at the months in the box and write the correctmonths in the word puzzle. Then ask the pupils to complete the sentence bywriting the correct month of Sam’s 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 months according to what they hear on thetape.Workbook (p.3)Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and listen to the cassette. Then askthem to circle the correct dates for the people’s birthdays according to whatthey hear on the tape.Workbook (p.4)Play the tape. The pupils need to circle the words with the same soundand the same letters according to what they hear on the tape.第 6 页


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 tellthem to complete the dialogues by writing the correct sentences in theblanks.Workbook (p.6)Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and read the conversation. Then tellthem to complete the dialogues by writing the correct words in the blanks.第 7 页