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Unit 8 When is your birthday?
Section B (1a-1d)
Language goals
Ss are able to talk about events on calendars.
Key words and phrases
test, trip, school trip, basketball game, English test
Teaching
Key sentences
Aims
1. —When is the basketball game? —It’s on October 2nd.
2. —How about the school trip? —The school trip is on September 26th
and 27th.
3. —When is the English test? —That’s on Friday, September 29th.
Let Ss learn to use proper sentence patterns to talk about events on
Teaching
calendars.
Difficulties
Teaching multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching
Aids
Teaching Procedures Tips
Step 1 Warm up
Warm up
Show Ss teaching goals.
T: Morning everyone. Today we are going to talk about events on
calendars.
Show Ss pictures on PPT P5 & P6 & P7. Ask them to describe
each picture following the example on P5.
(T asks Ss to say the dates of the festivals given on PPT, and Ss only have
three chances. When they answer the questions, the sentence patterns must
be like this: Labor Day is in May. May is the fifth month of a year. This
part is very easy for Ss, so T can also ask Ss to answer directly.)
Lead in
T asks Ss to share the school Events.
T: There are many different activities on different festivals. We can plant
trees on Tree-planting Day. We can make cards for our teachers on Teachers'
Day. What activities do you have in your school?
(Tip: T can teach Ss some expressions of school activities using the
1pictures and expressions on PPT P10.)
Step 2 Presentation & Practice
1a
T ask Ss to match the pictures with the events.
An optional approach to 1a is to have Ss cover the words in the
box and to only look at the pictures. T reads aloud the numbers
and the words and Ss write down the numbers and words next to
the letter of each picture. Then Ss look at the word box and write
the correct letter next to each number and word.
Answers: 1. d 2. c 3. b 4. a
1b
Ask Ss to listen and circle the events you hear in 1a.
Answers: party basketball game English test school trip
1c
Get Ss to listen again and fill in John's calendar.
Answers:
September 26 and 27: school trip
September 29: English test
October 2: basketball game
October 5: Sally’s birthday party
Let Ss look at PPT P14. Ask them to fill in the blanks (it can be
done in written or in oral) from memory. T can check how much
Ss remember about the listening. After all the Ss have filled in
blanks, T can play the recording and ask Ss to repeat sentence by
sentence.
Answers: 1. October 5th 2. a basketball game 3. September 4. a school
trip
1d
2 Ask Ss to ask and answer questions about John’s calendar.
As an alternative in 1d, have Ss look at the completed information
in 1c for two minutes. Then ask Ss to close their books and ask
and answer questions from memory.
Free Talk
Ask Ss to talk about the activities they have in their families.
T: What activities do you have in your family? What's the date? Introduce
to us.
(Give Ss two minutes to think about the task and T can give an example
first: We have a big dinner on September 29th.)
Step 4 Exercises & Homework
Exercises
Ask Ss to do the exercises on PPT P19-P21.
T ask Ss to make a summary about language points they learned today.
Homework
Preview the passage in Section B 2b.
Do the exercises in students’ book.
I designed many activities to helps students to master the expressions of
Teaching dates, which is the key point in this unit. These activities help Ss engage in
Reflection class more. More dictation should be done to make Ss more familiar with
the dates.
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