I. Teaching aims and demands:

1. Aims on the knowledge:

a. Ss will be able to listen, speak, read the words of the 12 months and write the abbreviated form of the 12 months.

b. Ss will be able to ask each other's birthdays with the sentence pattern “When is your birthday?”and answer the question with “My birthday is in …”.

c. Ss will be able to express year of the seasons and the division of the seasons in a year.

2. Aims on the abilities:

a. To develop Ss’ abilities of listening and speaking.

b. To foster Ss’ abilities of expressing their own birthday and ask others’ birthday.

3. Aims on the emotion:

a. To develop Ss’ interest in English.

b. Cultivate the students to love the nature, concerned about the change of the environment and climate.

II. Key-points of this lesson

a. Ss will be able to listen, speak, read the words of the 12 months and write the abbreviated form of the 12 months.

b. Ss will be able to ask each other's birthdays with the sentence pattern “When is your birthday?”and answer the question with “My birthday is in …”.

III. Difficult points

a.The pronounce of the words “Janurary” and “February”

b. the meanings of the 12 months.

IV. Pre-class preparation

a. a calendar

b. the word cards of the 12 months

c. many charts

V. Teaching procedures

Step 1. Warm-up and preview

1. Free talk between T and Ss

T: What’s your name?

S1: My name is …

T: Nice to meet you!

S1: Nice to meet you too1

T: What’s your name?

S2: My name is …

T: How do you do?

S2: How do you do?

T: How many fans are there in the classroom?

S3: There are three.

T: How many windows are there in the classroom?

S4: There are four.

T: How many seasons are there in the classroom?

S5: There are four.

T: What are they?

S6: They are: spring, summer, fall, winter.

T: Which season do you like best?

S7:I like…best.

Step 2. Presentation

March April May

T: Do you know which season do I like best? Can you guess?

I like spring best. Bescause my birthday is in spring, my birthday is in March.

Show the word ‘March’

Teach the word ‘March’

March, March, my birthday is in March.

Write the sentence ‘my birthday is in March.’ on the blackboard.

Ask the Ss to read the sentence

Write the sentence ‘When is your birthday ?.’ on the blackboard.

Ask the Ss to read the sentence

My birthday is in March, but my mother’s birthday’s is in April

Show the word ‘April’

April, April, my mother’s birthday is in ‘April’

Ask the students to read the two sentences.

My birthday is in March, my mother’s birthday’s is in April, my father’s birthday is in May.

Show the word ‘May’

May, May, my father’s birthday is in May.

Ask the students to read the two sentences.

June July August

T: In which season it is very hot?

Ss: Summer.

T: Which months are in summer?

They are June July and August.

Show the three words.

Read the words one by one,

Read the sentences

Ask and answer with the help of the blackboard.(the six new words)

September October November

When our summer vacation is over, in which month do we go to school ?

Show the word ‘September’

Teach the word.

Read the words one by one,

Read the sentences

September, September, my birthday is in September.

T: When is your birthday?

S: My birthday is in… .

After September, it’s our country’s birthday. It’s in October.

Show the word ‘October’.

Teach the word.

Read the words one by one,

Read the sentences

October, October, my birthday is in October.

T: Do you know your math teacher’s birthday? Who can guess?

Her birthday is in November.

Show the word ‘November’.

Teach the word.

Read the words one by one,

Read the sentences

November, November, my birthday is in November.

December January February

I like spring best, but I don’t like winter. It’s very cold in winter.

Which months are in winter?

After November it’s December.

Which festival is in December? (Sing a song ‘I wish you a merry christmas… .’)

It’s Christmas Day.

Show the calendar of January. The new year is coming.

It’s January.

Show the word ‘January’.

Teach the word.

Read the words one by one,

Read the sentences

January, January, my birthday is in January.

There are 12 months in a year, but there’re only 11 on the blackboard. Which is missing?

Show the word ‘February’.

Teach the word.

Read the words one by one,

Read the sentences

February, February, my birthday is in February.

Step 3. Practice and Consolidation

a. Read the 12 new words one by one.

b.HAppy train.

The teacher says a month and the students say the next month.

c.Get in groups and make your group birthday chart.

T: Do you want to know when your classmates’ birthday is? You can ask them like this:

A: Hello, Cai zhenhua. When is your birthday?

B: My birthday is in July. And you?

A: In April.

You should statistics the number of the students’ birthday in each month.

(Ss ask and answer in groups)

Report: Q:How many birthdays are there in January/ February/…

A: There’re …

Step 4. Assessment

Make a survey about your family members about their birthday.

1. When is your birthday?

My birthday is in __________

2. When is your birthday?

My birthday is in __________

3. When is your birthday?

My birthday is in __________

VI. Blackboard designing

Unit 3 My birthday

spring:

December (Dec.) January (Jan.) February (Feb.)

summer:

March (Mar.) April (Apr.) May

fall:

June　July August (Aug.)

winter:

September (Sept.)　October (Oct.) November (Nov.)

The blank

name	birthday

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