Ⅰ. Teaching Aims and Demands

1. Knowledge Objects: key vocabulary, target language, writing practice.

2. Ability Objects: listening and speaking skill, writing skill.

3. Moral Objects: Rome was not built in one day

Ⅱ. Teaching key points

1. Key vocabulary

Ping-pong player, basketball player, tennis player, football player, great, born.

2. Target language

Who’s that? That’s Deng Yaping. She is a great ping-pong player.

When was she born? She was born in 1973.

Ⅲ. Teaching Difficulty

Target language

Ⅳ. Teaching Methods

Listening method, writing method and speaking method.Pairwork.

Ⅴ.Teaching Aids

A tape recorder. Pictures or photos.

Ⅵ. Teaching Procedures

Step1 Lead-in.

Greet the class as usual and check the homework.

Good morning! Boys and girls! I have some friends to tell you, They are very famous. Look! They are sports stars. Show them a picture and ask them: “Who is she?”

Ss: She is Deng Yaping.

T:“Where is she from? What does she do?”

Ss: She is from China. She is a great ping-pong player.

T: Good! (write down the words on the blackboard: ping-pong player) Now who’s that? Do you know him?

Ss: He is David Beckham.

T: Where’s he from? What does he do?

Ss: He is from the UK. He is a great soccer player.

Step 2 Presentation 1a and 1c

T: Good, you are the best students I know. Do you like Beckham?

Ss: Yes, I do.

T: He is very handsome and tall, Yes? I like him, too.

So my good students, do you know Beckham’s birthday?

Ss: No, I don’t…./Yes, I do. His birthday is on January 1st 1975.

T: When was he born? Do you know?

Ss: He was born in 1975.

T: Good, now I will show you some pictures of famous stars. Look!

Who’s that?

That’s Deng Yaping. She is a great Chinese ping-pong player.

When was she born?

She was born in 1973.

Who’s that?

That’s Pan Changjiang. He is a very famous Chinese actor.

When was he born?

He was born in …..

And who’s that? Is she beautiful?

She is Fan Bingbing. She is a beautiful actor.

When was she born?

She was born in…..

Show them other pictures and make dialogues with each other.Then ask a student : “ When were you born? Lily?”

S: I was born in 1997.

Ask the other students: “ When was she born? And when was your mother/father/ sister/ brother born?

He/she was born in …../in October 1985/on December 12th, 2001.

Now practice the dialogues with each other and do a survey.

Names Occupation Born time Country

Yi Jianlian Basketball player 1963 China

Pan Changjiang actor 1980 China

Then ask some of them to practice the conversations in front of the class. They can get good grades if they did a good job.

Now please turn to page53, Section A 1a, make a list of international sports stars you know.Ask them to finish it in two minutes. For example, Yao Ming, kaka, Henry, Kobe Bryant….

Step 3. Listening 1b

Listen and write the year the sports star was born under each photo. Please look at the pictures first. The first one is Deng Yaping, the second one is Michael Jordan, the third one is Martina Hingis, the last one is David Beckham. Please listen to the tape carefully.

Play the recorder for the first time, then check the answers.

Answers: 1963, 1980,1975.

Check who get one hundred. Praise them.

Now turn to page89 and read the tapescripts together.

Step 4 Summary and Homework

Ask a student to summarize this lesson.Recite the sentences and learn to make dialogues by use of “when” questions.

Blackboard design:

Unit 9 When was he born?

born A: Who’s that?

basketball player B: That’s Deng Yaping. She is a great ping-pong player.

tennis player A: When was she born?

soccer player B: She was born in 1973.