四年级英语上册第一课Unit1Ourbirthdays.doc

Unit 1 Our birthdays
Task objectives：
Understand a series of instructions and act accordingly
Relate personal experience and information about family and friends by eliciting and responding to simple questions
Recognize rhythm in simple rhymes or poems
Provide information by using graphs，tables and posters
Pupils should be polite and helpful
Language focus：
When’s Grandma’s birthday? It’s in September.
Is your birthday on May 17? Yes, it is.
Topic vocabulary:
January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,November,December,1st-31st
Sixth Periods in Unit 1

The first period
Teaching contents: New words: birthday calendar month January.
Teaching aims: Learn the words and sentences above and the sentences in page 1.
Main points: New words
Difficult points: Sentences: How many + pl. n… ?
There are …
Teaching aids: Computer, calendars, word cards.
Teaching steps:
A. Review the week.
T: Hello, Good morning! Happy new school term! What day is today?
P: It’s Wednesday.
T: Can you say out from “Sunday” to “Saturday”?
Pupils say the week, then show word cards let pupils spell the week together.
B. Lead to the new lesson
Show pupils the calendar.
T: This is a calendar. Learn the word “calendar”. Pupils read the word after teacher. T: What’s that? P: It’s a calendar. Then lead to the word “month”. Tell pupils it’s a month. It’s January. Teach “January”. Then show pupils the sentences on the blackboard:
How many days in a month? There’re …days in a month.
Let the pupils count.
C. Show computer, pupils read after it. Try to read part A.
D. Do exercises: Choose the correct words:
1.____ day is today(What, How )? It’s Monday.
2. How many ____ are there in a month (days, day)?
3．It’s my (nine, ninth)birthday today.
4. What (is, are) that?
E. Sum up : Today we have learnt the new words: birthday calendar month January and the sentences How many …? There are …
F. Homework 1) Copy PB part A . 2) Copy the new words.
3) Listen to the tape and read after it.
G. Blackboard：
Unit 1 Our birthdays
How many ____s are there in a ____?
There are __________.
calendar month January

The Second Period
Teaching contents: 1) Words about months. 2) Workbook P1.
Teaching aims: Learn the new words about months.
Main points: Words about months.
Difficult points : Sentences: What is the date today? It’s…How many …are therein a…? There are… .
Teaching aids: Recorder, cards, computer, calendar.
Teaching steps:
A. 1. Greeting
2. Review the words and sentences learnt in last class .Try to make dialogues, using the sentences.
What day is today? What is the date today?
It is….
B. Teach the new words .
1、T: How many months in a year?
Then use a calendar to teach the months from “January” to “December”. Try to say and spell the words. Some words are long .Pay attention to the pronunciations of them.
2、Play word games.
C. Practice
D. Fill in the blanks with the correct words.
1. There are twelve_________ in a year.
2. Children’s Day is _____ June the 1st.
3. Ann’s birthday is _____ May.
4. Our National Day is on _____________.
E. Sum-up: Today we have learned words about months.
F. Homework
1、Listen to the tape and repeat after it.
2、Copy the new words.
G. Blackboard：
Unit 1 Our birthdays
Month July What is the date today ？ January August It’s ….
February September How many……?
April October There are…….
May November
June December

The Third Period
Teaching contents: 1) PB B1 B2 B3.
Teaching aims: Learn ordinal numbers.
Main points: Ordinal numbers.
Difficult points: Ordinal numbers.
Teaching aids: Calendar, recorder.
Teaching steps:
A. Free talk with children.
B. Teach B1 .
First, ask pupils when are their birthdays. Then make dialogues.
A: When’s your birthday? B: It’s in….
A: I can buy you a present. B: Good idea.
Then try to say the dialogues about the next pictures.
eg. Picture 2 When’s aunt Jane’s birthday?
It’s in July.
I can buy Aunt Jane a present.
Good idea.
C. Teach PB B2 .
First, review the cardinal numbers. Then use a calendar to learn the ordinal numbers. First second third fourth …
Note: that from the beginning of fourth, the words are ended with “th”. But pay attention to the following words:
Fifth eighth ninth twelfth twentieth thirtieth thirty-first.
Ask pupils to remember these.
D. Teach B3
Ask the pupils listen to the tape. Tell them to circle the correct dates this time. Check the answers with the pupils. Ask the pupils to work in pairs and ask each other Is your birthday on…? Unit they guess the date of their friend’s birthday.
Read after the recorder.
E. Do PB D exercises.(draw lines)
first 4th
second 5th
third 1st
fourth 3rd
fifth 2nd
F. Sum-up. Today we have learned words about the ordinal numbers.
G. Homework:
1. Listen to the tape and read after it.
2. Copy the new words and remember them.
H. Writing: Unit1 Our birthdays
When’s Grandma’s birthday? It’s in September.
I can buy Grandma a present. Good idea.
First second third fourth Fifth eighth ninth
twelfth twentieth thirtieth thirty-first

The Fourth Period
Teaching contents: 1) PB C, D.
Teaching aims: Pupils can respond to simple questions.
Main points: Pupils can act the story.
Difficult points: New words
Teaching aids: Computer, recorder.
Teaching steps:
A. Free talk with children.
B. Learn the PB C A story .
Listen and master the expressions.
What’s the date today? It’s November 14.
Surprise! Silly me!
Review the present continue tense.
Susan’s cooking and Linda’s painting.
Ask pupils to make sentences of present continuous.
Pupils read the sentences after the cassette, read together. Ask the pupils to role-play the story in groups of four and to read the characters’ speech bubbles. Some groups may come to the front and act the story.
C. Teach PB D Read the story again. Write the answers.
D. Do exercises: Fill in the blanks with the correct words.
1. Today is my Mummy’s ____________ birthday. She is forty years old.
2. _____ is your Grandpa’s birthday? It’s _____ December 3rd.
3. Our holiday is in ______ and _____.
4. Christmas Day is on __________.

E. Sum-up. Today we have learned words about new words in Part
HW: Read Parts A, B, C.
F. Writing on the blackboard:
Unit 1 Part C A story
New words：great-grandpa What’s the date today?
date It’s November 14.
day
silly

The Fifth Period
Teaching contents: 1) PB G, E. 2) WB P 2, 3, 4.
Teaching aims: 1. Recognize rhythm in simple rhymes or poems
2. Listen to and sing a song about birthdays
Main points: Part D and WB exercises.
Difficult points: Exercises in Part D.
Teaching aids: Recorder.
Teaching steps:
A. Free talk with children, then pupils ask and answer one by one: What’s the date today?
B. Sing the song of PB , Page 8.
Mary, when’s your birthday?
Listen to the tape and sing the song.
C. Teach PB E Pupils listen to the sound and the words, then read together, listen to the poem and read it. Tell them to circle the same letters with the same sound. Get the pupils to repeat the poem.
our four your fourth pour
D. Do Workbook P2, 3, 4. Ask pupils listen to the cassette. Check the answers with the pupils.
E. Sum up : Today we’ve learned PB E, G.
E Say the sounds and the words:
our four your fourth pour

F. Homework: Get ready for a dictation.
G. Writing on the blackboard:

The Six Period
Teaching contents: 1) PB F, H. 2) WB P 5, 6.
3) Review Unit 1 4) Dictation
Teaching aims: 1. Do a group survey and make a birthday train
2. Dictation
Main points: How to make a birthday train.
Difficult points: How to make a birthday train.
Teaching aids: Word cards.
Teaching steps:
A. Sing the song of PB , Page 8.
B. Free talk with children, then pupils ask and answer one by one: When’s your birthday?
C. Use word cards read and spell the words together, then have a dictation.
D. Do F Make a birthday train .
Ask pupils to write down their own birthday months. Then go around to collect the names of their classmates who has the same birthday months. Then tell it to the classmates.
Ask pupils who have the same birthday month to make a birthday train. Tell the pupils to line up in order of their birthdays and to present their train by saying who is the first, the second, the third and so on.
E. Teach H Think about it
F. Do Workbook P5, 6
G. Sum up : Today we’ve learned PB F H.
H. HW: 1. The pupils complete their birthday book by finding out the birthdays of their family members, relatives and friends outside the class.
2. Preview Unit 2.
Unit 1 Our birthday
When’s your birthday?

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