课题Unit 8 When is your birthday? 课型新授主备人来源:学优中考网谢旦审核人来源:学优中考网备课日期11-12-26来源:xYzkW.Com上课日期11-12-27教学目标Enable the students to talk about the events at school.Enable students to understand the targets language by reading pictures. 重点难点分析1. When is the speech contest? Its October fifth.2. How to talk about the events at school. 教学过程设计Step 1. Revision arid Lead-inCheck the homework by asking students to talk about their classmates birthdays in class. (Use the class calendar) T: Look at your class calendar, how many students were born in January 19th / April 6th.?S: 5 students were born in the same month. 3 students were born on, the same day. 2 students were born in the same year, same month and date. They are just like twins.T: Please write a short passage reporting your results.(Show a picture with some people having a contest.)T: These people are talking to the whole school. Other people are waiting to speak. Who is the best speaker? Its a contest. (Teach party, school trip, basketball game. Art Festival and music in the similar way.Show students a picture with students walking in the open air.) T: Look at the picture, some students are wearing sports clothes and shoes. They are going to walk to the countryside. Its a school trip.(Show a picture with students drawing pictures in class.)T: What are the children doing?S: They are drawing pictures. T: They are drawing in class. Do you know what glass they are having? (Help students answer.) S: They are having an art class.(Teach festival by means of imitating real situations.)T: Do you know when Mothers Day is? S: Its on the second Sunday in May.T: Yes, its mothers festival. (Write school trip, contest, art, festival on the blackboard)Make sure students can understand the meanings of these new words. Let them repeat the new words several times till they can say the new words freely.Step 2. Match (1:P50)Ask students to match the pictures with the events.Write the correct letter next to the word.T: Look at the four pictures in 1, what happens in each picture?Let students discuss each picture in groups. Offer language support when needed.Sample conversation 1:S: What happens in picture a?S: They are having a basketball game.Sample conversation 2:S: Are they on the playground in picture b?S: No, they are in the classroom. They are having ac.Sample conversation 3:S: What are they doing in picture d?S: They are having a speech contest.T: Nice work! Please look at the four pictures in 1, write the letter of the pictures on the lines next to the numbers. ( Point to the sample answer.)Step 3. Listening and Writing (2a, 2b P50)In 2a 2b, help students practice listening by answering the teachers questions. T: Now well listen to a conversation about the pictures.Listen carefully and make a checkmark to the right of each word that you hear on the recording in the box. Ill play the recording twice.(After listening, ask students to answer the questions.)T: How many events did you hear just now?S: Four. They are about speech contest (1), party (2), basketball game (3) and school trip (4).(Point to the pictures in 1.) T: Well hear the conversation again. This time, please fill in Joes calendar in 2b.(First let the students look at Joes calendar carefully.)T: What does the calendar show?S: It shows the September and October dates.T: When is Sallys birthday party?S: Its October 5th.(Let students listen to the recording carefully.)T: Ill play the tape. Listen carefully to the recording and then write the name of each event in the proper place on the calendar. (Point out the sample answer.)T: You will fill in three more events: the basketball game, the school trip, and the speech contest.(Check the answers by asking students to answer the questions about the conversation as follows.)T: When is the school trip?S: It September 26th and 27th. T: When is the speech contest? S: It September 29th.Step 4. Pair work (2c: P50)In 2c, ask students to do pair work to practice when questions and go over 2b at the same time. Let students look at the calendar they completed in 2b and read the conversation in 2c. T: Please have a conversation like this with the information from the calendar.Sample conversation 1:S: When is Sallys birthday party?S: Its October 5th.Sample conversation 2:S: When is the basketball game?S: The basketball game 7. Oh, its October 2nd.Ask some students to present their conversations to the class. Step 5. Sum up Ask some students to sum up this lesson by overhead projector and then have a test for the aim.Check the answers and correct the answers. 课堂小结After this lesson, students will be able to talk about events in the school.