Part 1:Teaching design(第一部分教學設計)
Structures:
When questions; Possessive “s”; How old are you?
Target language:
When is your birthday? My birthday is November 11th.
When is Vera’s birthday? Vera’s birthday is January 21st.
How old are you? I’m thirteen.
Vocabulary:
months of the year, ordinal numbers 1st -31st
birthday, party, speech contest, school trip
Learning strategies: Role-playing, Self-evaluating
SECTION A
Goals
● To learn to use When questions, possessive “s” and How old are you?
● To learn the months of the year and ordinal numbers1-31
● To learn to talk about dates
Procedures
Warming up by learning about grammar
1.Wh- Question
A question which begins with a wh- word, for example, Who are you? I’m Zhao Mingyuan.
When is your birthday? →My birthday is November 11th.
When is Vera’s birthday? →Vera’s birthday is January 21st.
How old are you? →I’m thirteen.
2. Possessive “s”
Nouns may take an -'s ("apostrophe s") or GENITIVE MARKER to indicate possession:
the boy's pen, a spider's web, my girlfriend's brother, John's house
If the noun already has an -s ending to mark the plural, then the genitive marker appears only as an apostrophe after the plural form:
the boys' pens, the spiders' webs, the Browns' house
Warming up by discussing the pictures
October 2005
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
August 2005
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31
Hello, everyone! Welcome back to class. Today we are talking about something new. Look! What‘s this? It’s a calendar for year 2006. It’s beautiful, isn’t it? Next to it there are two calendars for August 2005 and October 2005. The little girl in this picture is my daughter.
As you know, she is three years old. When is her birthday? Look at the calendar. Her birthday is August the nineteenth. When is the birthday of China, do you know? Good, it’s October the first. Now please say these sentences after me.
* When is her birthday? It’s October the first.
* Her birthday is August the nineteenth.
* When is the birthday of China? →It’s October the first.
1a Listening and repeating
Look at the list of the twelve months of the year in 1a. Listen to the recording and repeat each word several times until you can read them correctly. When you read, please pay more attention to September, October, November and December. The stress comes on the middle syllable in these words. You should say the middle syllable louder than the other two: Sep-tem-ber, Oc-to-ber, No-vem-ber, De-cem-ber.
Now look at the board. Here are the abbreviated versions of the twelve months: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec. Let’s ask some students to come to the front to tell us the full forms of them.
2b Listening and Numbering
Look at these three conversations and read them out. Listen to the recording and number them in the right order.
Check the answers: 1, 2, 3
Tapescript
Conversation 1
A: When is your birthday?
B: My birthday is October tenth.
Conversation 2
A: When is your birthday, Mary?
B: My birthday is January fifteenth.
Conversation 3
A: When is your birthday, Jeff?
B: My birthday is June fourth.
1c Doing pairwork
Now Listen to the recording again and practice the conversation with your partner. And then I’ll ask some students to perform their conversations for the class.
Now it’s time to read. Read the tapescript to darken the When questions.
2a Listening and repeating
In unit 7 we learned the numbers ten to thirty-one. Now we are going to study the ordinal numbers from first to thirty-first. Look at the list of ordinal numbers in 2a. Listen to the recording and repeat each ordinal number. As you are reading, please pay attention to the pronunciation and the spelling.
Tapescript:
first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first
2b Listening and circling
Here is a conversation between a teacher and students. They are talking about the class birthday. Listen carefully and circle the numbers in 2a that you hear on the recording.
Tapescript:
Teacher: Now, let’s fill in the class birthday calendar. Leila, when’s your birthday?
Leila: It’s September 5th, Mr. fisher.
Teacher: Oh, OK. And how about you Nick?
Nick: July 4th.
Teacher: And Robert?
Robert: My birthday is January 17th.
Teacher: January 17th. OK. And Jane, when’s your birthday?
Jane: August 22nd.
Check the answers: 5th, 4th, 17th, 22nd
Read the tapescript to darken the questions and study their structures.
2c Listening and matching
Look at the box and picture in 2c. There are three columns about names, months and dates. Read them aloud and listen to the recording again. This time please draw a line connecting each person’s name with the month and date of his or her birthday.
Check the answers:
Leila---September 5th Nick---July 4th
Robert---January 17th Jane---August` 22nd
2d Doing pairwork
Now please work in pairs to practice the conversation about your birthday and your parents’ birthday. You can follow the conversation outline in 2d.
Sample conversation:
A: When is your birthday?
B: My birthday is May 22nd.
A: When is your mother’s birthday?
B: Her birthday is January 18th.
A: And when is your father’s birthday?
B: His birthday is February 6th.
3a Doing pairwork
There are three ID cards in 3a. These ID cards tell us persons’ names, birthdays and ages. Read the conversation about the first ID card and make your conversations with your partner using the information of the other two ID cards. Then I’ll ask some pairs to perform the conversations.
Samples:
1. S1: When is your birthday, William?
S2: It’s November 12th.
S1: How old are you?
S2: I’m thirteen.
2. S1: When is your birthday, Tina?
S2: It’s June 3rd.
S1: How old are you?
S2: I’m seventeenth.
3d Doing pairwork
Just now we had conversations about John, William and Tina. Now please have conversations with your partner about your own birthdays and your ages. You can interview each other and you should tell the truth. Then some pairs shall come to present their conversations to the class.
Closing up by the birthday game
Look at the picture of people lined up from youngest to oldest. How old are they? Can you guess? Any reasonable answer is OK. Now let’s play the birthday game in groups. Talk to your classmates in your group. Ask and answer the questions about their birthdays and ages and line them up from youngest to oldest as in the picture.
SECTION B
Goals
● To learn some new expressions
● To learn to talk about dates
Procedures
Warming up by meeting new expressions
Last class we learned the names of twelve months and ordinal numbers from first to thirty-first. Today we are learning some new expressions. They are speech contest, school trip, basketball game, party, school day, and music festival and so on. Look at the pictures. They can tell us the meanings of these phrases.
School trip school day music festival
speech contest birthday party basketball game
Now say each one of them after me.
1 Matching
Look at the expressions in the box. Match the pictures and the events. Write the letters of the pictures on the lines next to the numbers.
Check the answers:
1. speech contest d 2. party c
3. school trip b 4. basketball game a
2a Listening and checking
Now we’ll hear a conversation about the pictures in part1. Listen carefully and make a checkmark to the right of each word that you here on the recording.
Check the answers:
All the items should be checked:
party, basketball game, school trip, speech contest
Tapescript:
Joe: Hey, Sally. Can you help me fill in my calendar?
Sally: Sure, Joe.
Joe: When is your birthday party?
Sally: My birthday party is October 5th.
Joe: OK and when is the basketball game?
Sally: The basketballs game? Oh, it’s October 2nd.
Joe: Good. And, um, how about the school trip?
Sally: The school trip is September 26th and 27th.
Joe: And when’s the speech contest?
Sally: Oh, that’s Friday, September 29th.
Joe: Great.
2b Listening and filling
According to the conversation between Joe and Sally, we know there are four events in September and October. When are the events, do you remember? Please listen to the recording again and write the name of each event in the correct place on the calendar. Look at the chart. One of them is given. You’ll write the other events.
Check the answers:
the school trip---September 26th and 27th
the speech contest---September 29th
the basketball game---October 2nd
the (birthday) party---October 5th
2c Doing pairwork
Look at the speech bubbles and read the conversation aloud. Ask and answer more questions with your partner using information from the calendar in 2b.
Sample conversation:
S1: When is Sally’s birthday party?
S2: It’s October fifth.
S1: When is speech contest?
S2: It’s September 29th.
Now let’s ask some pairs to present their conversations to the class.
3a Doing pairwork
Here is an uncompleted events list of October in 3a. Now work in pairs to complete the task. One person looks at the chart on page 51 and the other looks at the one on page 84. Each of you has only half of the information. Your job is to get the rest of the information from your partner.
Check the answers:
A: When’s the basketball game?
B: It’s on October 3rd.
B: When’s the English speech contest?
A: It’s on October 7th.
A: When’s the Dave’s birthday party?
B: It’s on October 29th.
B: When’s the school trip?
A: It’s on October 26th and 27th.
A: When’s the volleyball game?
B: It’s on October 30th.
3b Doing pairwork
Look at the chart in 3b. There is a list of the events. Do you like these events? Which of these events will you have at your school? Now imagine you are a school headmaster. Ask and answer questions imitating the sample dialogue to complete the chart. You can choose to have any of the events listed, and whichever dates you prefer for these events.
Yes No Month Day
School Day
April 19th
Art Festival
June 5th
Chinese contest
Music festival
English Party
Sample dialogue:
A: Do you have a school day at your school?
B: Yes, we do.
A: When is it?
B: It’s April 19th.
A: Do you have an Art Festival?
B: Yes, we do. We have an Art Festival on June 5th.
A: Do you have a Chinese Contest?
B: No, we don’t.
Closing down by doing groupwork
Now please write a small passage about yourself. You must write at least five things. You can write how old you are, when your birthday is and the food or the movies or anything you like or don’t like. Then please exchange your papers with your group mates several times. And I’ll ask students to take turns to read the passages to class. After a student reads a passage, please guess, who is it?
Sample passage:
I’m fifteen years old. My birthday is January 1st. I like baseball and volleyball. I like comedies and Beijing Opera but I don’t like thrillers because they’re too scary. My favorite food is French fries and tomato sauce. They are very delicious.
SELF CHECK
Goals
●To revise the key words of this unit
●To practice writing months and dates
Procedures
1 Checking
Please open your book at page 52 and look at part 1. Check all the words you know. If you have any words you don’t know, circle them and please find out the meanings of them.
2 Writing
Write five new words in your notebook and share your list with your partners in your group.
3 Writing
Look at the photos of these famous people. Do you know their names? Please look at the names under the pictures. They are great in history. How old do you think he or she is? You can work together to try to find their names and birthdays. If you can’t complete the task, you can surf the Internet after class to find the information about them. We can check the answers next time.
Check the answers:
Names Birthday
Edison February 11, 1847
Lu Xun November 25, 1881
Li Siguang October 26, 1889
Newton December 25, 1642
Nie Er February 14, 1912
Curie December 7, 1867
Just for fun!
Listening to a funny story.
A cat and her four kittens ran into a large dog. When the kittens cowered, the cat let out a series of loud barks, scaring the dog away.
Turning to her kittens, the cat said, "You see how important it is to know a second language."
Part 2: Teaching Resources(第二部分:教學資源)
I.Background readings
1.Calendar date
A date in a calendar is a reference to a particular day by means of a calendar system. The calendar date allows the particular day to be identified. A person can often determine how many days a particular date comes after another date. For example, "February 19, 2003", is ten days after "February 9, 2003", in the Gregorian calendar.
In most calendar systems, the date consists of three parts: the day of month, month, and the year. There may also be additional parts, such as the day of week. Years are usually counted from a particular starting point, usually called an era, but sometimes an epoch.
A date without the year part may also be referred to as a date or calendar date (such as "9 February" rather than "9 February 2003"). As such, it defines the days of an annual festival, such as a birthday or Christmas on 25 December.
2. Date format
Related to the classification of a day as a specific calendar date is the format used to express that date.
Even for any specific calendar system, different formats are used. For example, the following formats all express the same date in the Gregorian calendar:
Forms starting with the day
This sequence is common to the vast majority of the world's countries, and is used as the accepted international date usage.
16/11/2001, 16.11.2001, 16-11-2001 or 16-11-01
16th of November 2001
16th November 2001
16 November 2001
16 Nov 2001
Forms starting with the year
2001 November 16
2001-11-16: the ISO 8601 International formal standard ordering for dates, often formatted to be especially easily read and sorted by computers. It's used with UTC in the Internet date/time format (see the external link below). This format is also favored in certain Asian countries, mainly the East Asia.
Forms starting with the month
This sequence is common to a smaller number of countries.
November 16, 2001
Nov. 16, 2001
11/16/2001, 11-16-2001, 11.16.2001 or 11.16.01
This order is used in the United States and countries with U.S. influence (but the U.S. federal government sometimes uses day, month, year). England originally used day, month, year, then for a while used month, day, year, and finally the original form (day, month, year) was revived around 1900. Canada uses both conventions, those starting with the day and those starting with the month.
3.英語十二個月份名稱由來
英語中的月份均來自于拉丁語，其中大多為羅馬神的名字。
一月January：源于羅馬神話中一位叫Janus的兩面神，他的腦袋前后各長有一副面孔，古羅馬錢幣上也常刻有其形象。Janus是天宮的守門人，每天早晨把天宮的門打開，讓陽光照耀大地；晚上把門關上，讓夜幕降臨。古羅馬人在每年的第一天和每天清晨都要向他祈禱，以求事事順利。難怪羅馬人將他的名字作為一月。
二月February：源于羅馬的一種大掃除的慶典活動，名為“Februal”。或許是因為到了這個時候，漫長的冬季已過，人們開始打掃庭院，迎接春天的到來。
三月March：是根據羅馬神話中戰神的名字命名的。這個戰神叫Mars，很有力量。三月時有雷雨天氣，羅馬人總把Mars和雷電聯系在一起。
四月April：羅馬的四月，正是大地回春。鮮花初綻的美好季節。英文四月April便由拉丁文April(即開花的日子)演變而來。
五月May：由女神Maia名字而來。Maia年輕貌美，被稱為“田野之神”。
六月June：是由眾神之王宙斯的妻子Juno的名字命名的。
七月July：來自古羅馬開國大帝凱撒（Julius Caesar）的名字。因他七月出生，故將七月以他的名字命名。
八月August：則是由凱撒大帝的繼承人奧古斯都大帝（Auguetus）的名字命名的。Auguetus不能容忍凱撒的七月比他的八月多一天，就把二月的一天移到八月，這樣八月也有31天，而二月只剩28天或29天了。
并非每個月份都有這樣的故事。四月的另一種說法是來自于拉丁語Avril意為“之后”，“第二”，因在凱撒之前的古羅馬歷法中，每年的第一個月份是三月。九月September、十月October、十一月November和十二月December也分別來自于拉丁語Sptem、Octo、Novem和Decem，分別意為“seven、eight、nine、ten”。這樣，自然就明白這４個月份的來歷了
II. Fun materials (趣味材料)
A dead rabbit
This guy comes home from work one day to find his dog with the neighbor's pet rabbit in his mouth. The rabbit is very dead and the guy panics.
He thinks the neighbors are going to hate him forever, so he takes the dirty, chewed-up rabbit into the house, gives it a bath, blow-dries its fur, and puts the rabbit back into the cage at the neighbor's house, hoping that they will think it died of natural causes.
A few days later, the neighbor is outside and asks the guy, "Did you hear that Fluffy died?"
The guy stumbles around and says, "Um.. no.. um.. what happened?"
The neighbor replies, "We just found him dead in his cage one day, but the weird thing is that the day after we buried him we went outside and someone had dug him up, gave him a bath and put him back into the cage.
III. Word studies （詞語學習）
1. day
n. 1. 天 a length of time of 24 hours: Every day they went to the road nearby. 他們每天到附近的大路上去。Can I have the day off tomorrow? 明天我可以請假嗎？ I'll never forget the day when I joined the Youth League. 我永遠不會忘記我入團的那一天。 2. 白天 the time of light between morning and evening; not night: The sun gives us light during the day. 白天太陽給我們光明。I work during the day and sleep at night. 我白天工作，晚上睡覺。3.每日工作的小時數 the hours of the day given to work: We all observe the eight hour day. 我們大家都遵守八小時工作日制。4.節日 a special date: New Year's day is the lst of January. 新年在元月一日。5.時代，時期，時候 (pl.) times: All these things were to be answered in the days to come. 將來總有一天，這一切都是要償還的。There was no television in the days of Queen Victoria. 維多利亞女王時代沒有電視。In the old days the peasants lived a miserable life. 在舊社會，農民的生活很痛苦。
2. date
n.[C] 1.日期,日子,年月日 the time, shown by the day, month, and sometimes the year: The date for the meeting has been altered from Wednesday to Friday. 會議日期已從星期三改為星期五。What is the date today? 今天是幾號？ The date on this letter is 7 July 1975. 信上寫的日期是一九七五年七月七號。2. 和…約會 meeting that you have planned with someone: Karen has a date with Paul on Friday. 星期五凱倫和保羅有個約會。3.海棗；椰棗 small, sweet, brown fruit of a tree called the date palm
vt. 寫日期 have or put a date on: He dated his letter 6 August, 1987. 他在信上寫了1987年8月6日。I don't know when he wrote the letter -it isn't dated. 我不知道他什么時候寫的這封信--信上沒有寫日期。
3.trip
n. [C]旅行: We had a trip to the coast last Saturday. 上星期六我們到海邊旅行去了。He is on a business trip now. 他現在出差。
a delightful trip 愉快的旅行;an extended trip abroad 在國外周游; successful trip 愉快而成功的旅行; one's bridal trip 結婚旅行; have a trip 作一次旅游; organize a vocation trip 組織一次假期旅游活動
v. 1. 絆倒；失足 catch your foot on something so that you fall or nearly fall: He tripped over the step. 他在臺階上絆倒了。Ken put out his foot and tripped me up. 肯伸出腳把我絆倒。I tripped against a rope. 我被繩子絆倒。2. 犯錯誤，失言 make a mistake in a statement, speaking, commit an error: His tongue tripped. 他說話失言了。We are all apt to trip. 我們都容易犯錯誤。I have often caught him tripping. 我常常挑他做錯事。
IV Grammar studies (語法學習)
一般現在時的用法
1. 經常性或習慣性的動作，常與表示頻度的時間狀語 (every…, sometimes, at…, on Sunday)連用: I leave home for school at 7 every morning.
2. 客觀真理，客觀存在，科學事實: The earth moves around the sun. Shanghai lies in the east of China.
3.表示格言或警句中: Pride goes before a fall.驕者必敗。
注意：此用法如果出現在賓語從句中，即使主句是過去時，從句謂語也要用一般現在時。
例：Columbus proved that the earth is round..
4 現在時刻的狀態、能力、性格、個性: I don't want so much. Ann Wang writes good English but does not speak well.
*比較：Now I put the sugar in the cup.
I am doing my homework now.
第一句用一般現在時，用于操作演示或指導說明的示范性動作，表示言行的瞬間動作。再如：Now watch me, I switch on the current and stand back. 第二句中的now是進行時的標志，表示正在進行的動作的客觀狀況.
一般現在時表將來
1.下列動詞：come, go, arrive, leave, start, begin, return的一般現在時表將來。這主要用來表示在時間上已確定或安排好的事情。
The train leaves at six tomorrow morning.
When does the bus star? It stars in ten minutes.
2.倒裝句，表示動作正在進行，如：
Here comes the bus. = The bus is coming.
There goes the bell. = The bell is ringing.
3.在時間或條件句中。
When Bill comes (不是will come), ask him to wait for me.
I'll write to you as soon as I arrive there.
4. 在動詞hope, take care that, make sure that等后。
I hope they have a nice time next week.
Make sure that the windows are closed before you leave the room.