3.Let students master the reading methods of dates.

2.Have students try to find out some rules of changing cardinal numbers into ordinal numbers.

1.Give students cardinal numbers 1 to 31.Have them try to write out their ordinal numbers.

3.Let students Know how many days there are in each month.

StepⅢ.Presentation

2.Have students pay attention to the short forms of the 12 month in a year.

StepⅠ.Warm-up

Listen and sing along with a song “Happy Birthday to You”. And thus leads to the new lesson “Unit8 When is your birthday?(Period2).

StepⅡ.Revision

1.Look at the pictures and review the months.

A projector and a computer.

Listening and reading methods.

Pairwork and communicative approach.

When is Leila’s birthday?

Her birthday is September 5^th.

When is Nick’s birthday?

His birthday is July 4^th.

Ordinal numbers 1^st to 31^st.