07七年级上册 （教案7）Unit 8 Section B (1a-1d)

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Unit 8  When is your birthday?
Section B (1a-1d)

Teaching Aims	Language goals   Ss are able to talk about events on calendars. Key words and phrases test, trip, school trip, basketball game, English test Key sentences 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.
Teaching Difficulties	Let Ss learn to use proper sentence patterns to talk about events on calendars.
Teaching Aids	multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching

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 pictures and expressions on PPT P10.)
Step 2Presentation & 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. September4. a school trip 1d 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.
Teaching Reflection	I designed many activities to helps students to master the expressions of dates, which is the key point in this unit. These activities help Ss engage in class more. More dictation should be done to make Ss more familiar with the dates.