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.

3.Moral Object

Remember the birthday of family members and give them a present.

2.Ability objects:

Listening and speaking skills.

Communicative competence.

1.　　 Knowledge Objects

Ordinal numbers 1^st to 31^st.

4.Ask and answer practice.

When is your birthday?

My birthday is…

StepⅣ.2a.Listen and repeat.

Have students try to write out the full forms of the ordinal numbers 1^st to 31^st.

StepⅤ.2b.Listen and circle the numbers you hear in 2a.

StepⅥ.Introduce some important holidays to students.

When is Children’s day?

It’s June 1^st.etc.

StepⅦ.2c.Listen and match the names, months and dates.

StepⅧ.2d,Pairwork.

When is your birthday?

My birthday is …

When is your mother’s birthday?

Her birthday is…

When is your father’s birthday?

His birthday is …

StepⅨ.Practice

Ask about some famous people’s birthday.

StepⅩ.Consolidation

Exx1,2and 3.

StepⅪ.Sum-up

StepⅫ.Homework

StepXIII.End up the class with the same song “Happy Birthday to You”.

StepXIV.Blackboard Design.