Unit 1 Our birthdays教案

四年级上册 Unit 1 Our birthdays教学设计
课 题 Period 1 (The months) Unit 1 Our birthdays
教学目标 To learn the months of the year
教材分析 重点 To learn the name of the months
难点 The pronunciation of January, February, September, October, November, December.
教具 A calendar, word cards, a recorder
教 学 过 程

Step 1. Greeting
How are you? What day is it today?

Step 2. Guide in.
What day is it? It’s Monday.---- day
How many days are there in a week?--- week
How many days are there in a month? ---- month
How many months are there in a year? ---year
There are 12 months in a year. What are they?
They are January, February, March…..

Step 3. Presentation & Practice
1. Ask the pupils if they know the names of the months. Ask the pupils to say after the teacher the names of the months, in order, using the calendar if necessary.

2. Guessing game:
Using the calendar, the teacher turn to a particular page, ask the students to guess what month it is.

3. Make a quiz for the pupils.
Write the names of the months using the letters in the wrong order. Also mix up the order of the months, for example, GASTUU= August. Tell the pupils to unscramble the letters. See who can be first to finish.

4. (Books open). Show Transparency. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette and point to the speech bubbles. Ask the pupils to repeat after the cassette.

Step 5 Homework

布置作业
1. Copy Book, Copy the names of the month fourth times each.
2. Copy Book, Dictation of the new words.
3. Listen and read Part A, Unit 1 5 times.
板书设计
How many… are there? Day week
There are…. Month year

January February March April
May June July August
September October November December

教学后记
The quiz for the students is a little bit difficult for most of them. Maybe it will serve better when using it in the second period.

课 题 Period 2 ( The ordinal numbers), Unit One Our birthdays
教学目标 Learn how to read the dates
教材分析 重点 The way to say the dates
难点 The pronunciation of first/ second/ third/ twelfth/twentieth
教具 The number cards. The calendar. The recorder.
教 学 过 程

Step 1: Greeting

Step 2: Free talk
1. What day is it today?
2. How many months are there in a year/
3. What are they? They are January/ February/ March/ April/ May/ June/ July/ August/ September/ October/ November/ December.
4. The spelling of the months.

Step 3: Presentation
1. What’s the date today? It’s September 7.--- seventh.
2. When’s New Year’s Day? January 1--- first.
3. second, third, fourth….
4. Read the words in B2, Page 3.

Step 4: Practice
1. The conclusion of the formation of the words.
2. Read out the dates:
9/1, 10/03, 9/ 10, 3/ 08
5/9, 1/05, 4/ 15, 11/ 21
12/ 23, 10/ 31.
3. Write out the ordinal numbers
1--- 5---- 3---
12--- 20--- 8---
31--- 42--- 86---
99--- 50--- 67---

Step5: Homework.

布置作业
1. Recite the ordinal numbers on page 89.
2. Listen to B1 five times and finish the little dialogues for picture2, 3, 4, 5.
板书设计
Day--- Tuesday
Date--- September 7
First fourth twentieth
Second fifth thirtieth
Third sixth fiftieth
教学后记
1. The read-out of the dates seems ok to them.
2. But they can’t not figure out how to write the ordinal numbers: forty-second, eighty-sixth, ninety-ninth, etc.
 

课 题 Period 3 (Part B1), Unit One Our birthdays
教学目标 Learn to talk about the birthdays.
教材分析 重点 The sentence pattern: When’s Grandma’s birthday? It’s in…. It’s on….
难点 In used when mentioned only in months
On used when mentioned the special dates.
教具 The calendar, the recorder
教 学 过 程

Step 1: Greeting

Step2: Revision;
1. Dictation of the names of the months.
2. Read the ordinal numbers on Page 89.
3. Correction of the homework.
42--- forty-second 86--- eighty-sixth
99--- ninety-ninth 50--- fiftieth
4. Read out some special dates.

Step 3: Presentation and Practice.
1. (Book closed.) Ask Which month is it? What’s the date today?
2. Ask individual pupils When’s your birthday?
Guide the students to answer: It’s in … It’s on…. Then get the students to work in pairs to ask each other When’s your birthday?

3. (Books open.) Show Transparency. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette. Explain that Tim is going to use his saved money to buy Grandma a present.
4. Read the conversation and ask the class to read it after the teacher. Practise the falling intonation for the question When’s Grandma’s birthday?

5. Demonstrate the conversation in picture 2. Show the pupils that Tim is asking about Aunt Jane’s birthday and point to Aunt Jane in his thought bubble. Get the pupils to repeat the conversation after the teacher.
6. Ask two pupils to role-play Tim and his mother in picture2.

7. Tell the pupils to work in pairs. Ask them to look at pictures 3, 4 and 5 and role-play Tim and his mother.
8. Ask When’s …’s birthday? About the people in the thought bubbles in pictures 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Step 4: Homework

布置作业
1. Copy Book: Copy Part A & B1 once.
2. Listen to B2 & B3 three times and finish the practice in Part B3.
板书设计
What’s the date today?
It’s….
When’s your birthday?
It’s in….
It’s on….
教学后记
The students seem to grasp this sentence pattern quite well.

课 题 Period 4( Part B2), Unit One Our birthdays
教学目标 Learn how to talk about their birthdays.
教材分析 重点 Sentence Patten: Is your birthday on….? Yes, it is. No, it isn’t.
难点 The short forms of writing the dates.
教具 The calendar, the recorder.
教 学 过 程

Step 1: Greeting.
Step 2: Free talk:
1. How are you?
2. What day is it today?
3. What lesson do you have on Friday?
4. What’s the date today? It’s September 10.
5. Today is Teachers’ Day. What do you say to the teachers?

Step 3: Guide in.
1. T: What’s your name, please? Nice to meet you. When’s your birthday? It’s on….
The teacher writes the dates on the blackboard, using the short forms.

After 3 examples. Ask the students to conclude the ways to write the dates in the short forms.

Step 4: Presentation and Practice.
1. Ask the students: Do you know my birthday? The students say no. Then the teacher says: My birthday is in January. Can you guess on which date?
2. Students guess the teacher’s birthday using the sentence: Is your birthday on…..?
3. Group work: Guessing their partner’s birthday in groups of six.

Step 5: Part B3 Listen and circle the correct dates.
Listen to the tape twice and find out the correct answers.

Step 6: Homework.
布置作业
Listen and follow Part c 5 times. And answer the questions in Part D on Page 5.
板书设计 Jan. 1st
Is your birthday on…? Feb. 2nd
Yes, it is. Mar. 3rd
No, it isn’t. Apr. 4th.
教学后记
The students like the guessing game. And students in Grade 4 seem to be more active in this class. I like it.

课 题 Period 5 (Part C & D) Unit one Our birthdays.
教学目标 Enable the students to understand Part C, and answer the question in Part D.
教材分析 重点 To understand Part C.
难点 1. To understand the sentence: Silly me!
2. To answer the questions in Part D correctly.
教具 The tape recorder. And the projector. 
教 学 过 程

Step 1: Greeting

Step 2: Free talk
1. What day is today?
2. What’s the date today?
3. How many months are there in a year?
4. How many days are there in September/
5. When’s your birthday?
6. When’s Children’s Day/ Teacher’s Day/ Christmas Day/ National Day/ New Year’s Day/ Women’s Day/ Labor Day?

Step 3: Presentation
1. Listen to the tape once.
2. Listen again and answer the teacher’s question.
3. Listen and follow, sentence by sentence.
4. Group work: Students read or role-play Part C.
5. Ask the pupils to read the story again. Show them where to write their answers.
6. Check the answers with the pupils.

Step 4: Practice
Exercise: Answer the questions followed:
1. What day is today?
2. What’s the date today?
3. When’s your birthday?
4. When’s your mother’s birthday?
5. How many months are there in a year?
6. Is your birthday in October?
7. Is your father’s birthday in January?

Step 5: Homework

布置作业
1. Copy book: Copy Part C&D once each.
2. Listen to Part E five times. 板书设计
New year’s Day
Women’s Day
Labor Day
Children’s Day
National Day

教学后记
The students seem not to be active in the class, because of the difficult questions I prepared for them, I think.

Their interests in learning English should be enhanced.

课 题 Period 6 (Part F) Unit one Our birthday
教学目标 Enable the students to use the language they have learned
教材分析 重点 To fulfill the task : Make a birthday train.
难点 Enable the students to use the language they have learned to fulfill the task: Make a birthday train.
教具 The textbook. The scissors.
教 学 过 程

Step 1: Greeting.

Step 2: Revision
1. Read the names of the month.
2. Read the ordinal numbers.
3. Read some special days.

Step 3: While-task stage
1. Tell the pupils to ask others in the class about their birthdays in order to get into groups with birthdays in the same month. They should follow the example in the pictures on page 6.
2. within their groups, the pupils find out the birthdays of their group members in order to get into order of dates.
3. Ask each pupil to cut out the train car on page 77. Tell them to stick or draw a picture of themselves and write the date of their birthday on the carriage.
4. 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.

Step 4: Homework.

布置作业
Read Part A, B, C five times above.

板书设计
Is your birthday in….?
When’s your birthday?

教学后记
1. The students seem to be quite active in this class.
2. It’s very challenging to manage such a big activity for it’s really difficult to keep the whole class under your thumb when everyone gets excited in your class.

课 题 Period 7 (Part E,G&H) Unit One Our birthdays
教学目标 1. Revise the whole unit
2. Say the sound and words in Part E.
3. Sing the English song in Part G
教材分析 重点 1. The revision of the whole unit.
2. Say the sound and words in Part E.
难点 Listen and circle the same letters with the same sound
教具 The multi-media, the tape recorder.
教 学 过 程

Step 1: Greeting.
Step 2: Free talk

Step 3: A competition(见课件unit 1 reading competition)
1), Reading competition
A. Can you read Part B3?
B. Read Part C one by one.
C. Read Part B1 together
D. Read the names of the month using falling and rising tones.
2). Questions:
A. What day is today?
What’s the date today?
B. Is your birthday in December?
How many months are there in a year?
C. When’s your birthday?
How old are you?
D. Where do you live?
When’s your father’s birthday?

Step 4: Part E, G& H
Step 5: Exercises:
一, 用英语写出下列日期:
1).5月5日 2). 3月8日 3). 6月1日 4). 2月14日
5).8月15日 6).9月30日 7).12月25日 8).11月2日
二, 回答下列问题:
1). What’s the date today?
2). When’s National Day(国庆节)?
3). Is your mother’s birthday in April?
4). How old is your father?
5). Which is the first month of a year?

布置作业
一, 用英语写出下列日期
二, 回答下列问题: 板书设计 4 3 2 1
It’s Sept. 15.
It’s on Mar. 9.

教学后记
This is a very interesting competition class. All the students like it. They are so active in the class.

课 题 Period 8 (Exercise Book) Unit One Our birthday
教学目标 To revise the whole unit and finish all the exercises in the Exercise Book.
教材分析 重点 To revise the whole unit and finish all the exercises in EB.
难点 Page 6, Exercise Book.
教具 The tape recorder.
教 学 过 程

Step 1: Greeting.

Step 2: Exercises in the Exercise Book
1. (Page 1) Tell the pupils to look at the months in the box and write the correct months in the word puzzle. Two of the months will not be used. Then ask the pupils to complete the sentence by writing the correct month of Sam’s birthday.
2. (Page 2) Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and listen to the Workbook Cassette. Ask the pupils to write the correct months according to what they hear on the tape.
3. (Page 3) Ask the pupils to circle the correct dates for the people’s birthdays according to what they hear on the tape.
4. ( Page 4) Ask the pupils to look at the top of the page and listen to the Workbook Cassette. They need to circle the words with the same sound and the same letters according to what they hear on the tape.
Ask the pupils to look a the bottom of the page. Tell them to look at the pictures and fill in the blanks.
5. (Page 5) Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and read the sentences. Then tell them to complete the dialogues by writing the correct sentences in the blanks.
6. (Page 6) Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and read the conversation. Then tell them to complete the dialogues by writing the correct words in the blanks.

Step 3: Dictation of the new words and sentences.

Step 4: Homework

布置作业
Prepare the new lessons in unit 2.

板书设计
Workbook
Dictation
教学后记 Most students can do well.