2.Target language:When is your birthday？/My birthday is November 11th./

When is Sarah’s birthday？/Sarah’s birthday is January 21th./How old are you？/I’m thirteen.

1.Language Function:Talk about dates.

5.Teaching Method:Teach students how to communicate with others.

4.Teaching Difficult Point:Improve students’ ability of reading and writing.

3.Teaching Key Point:Learn the key vocabulary and the target language of this unit.

2.Teaching Aims and Demands

(1)Knowledge Object:Learn to talk about dates.

(2)Ability Object

Train students’ listening，speaking，reading and writing skills.Train students’ communicative competence.

(3)Moral Object

Tell students they should remember their parents’ birthdays and give them presents to express their love.

1.Status and Function

The topic of this unit is about dates.In this unit students will learn to ask about when someone’s birthday is.Such topic is closely related to students’ daily life，so it is helpful to raise students’ learning interest easily.It can help to improve students’ spoken English.

(1)In the first period students will learn the names of twelve months of a year first.Then students can learn to ask when someone’s birthday is.They will be happy to learn such useful expressions.And all activities in this period provide listening and oral practice using the target language.

(2)In the second period students will learn ordinal numbers 1-31.This can help students

learn to express on which days their birthdays are.

(3)Exercises of the workbook can strengthen the knowledge and the target language

students have learnt.The birthday game in this period can help students practise their spoken English.This can make students feel they have made much progress in English.

(4)The vocabulary extension activity in the fourth period introduces more words to students.This can help students master more words.It can improve students’ ability of reading and writing.

(5)In the fifth period students will learn to make a schedule.It can make students understand if they have a reasonable schedule they’ll arrange everything well.

(6)Self Check in the last period can check how many words students have mastered.The photos of famous people can make students know their names and their birthdays.Also students can learn from them.Study hard and make our country strong and rich.

3. Ask the students What kind of movies do Tom and Mike? Get the students discuss in pairs. Then get the students express their opinions.

2. Get the students to read their description and write down some key words on the blackboard.