Unit Nine When were you born?
Teaching Goals:
1. Talk about the famous person you admire.
2. Learn some expressions of career;
3. Talk about the past experience;
4. talk about the achievement of oneself or others;
5. Write a passage introducing the experience of one’s own and others.
6. Learn to write a brief biography of somebody.
Teaching Guide
1. Language functions: talk about successful person.
2. Language goals:
Who’s that? That’s Deng Yaping. She is a great ping-pong player.
When was she born? She was born in 1973.
Who’s Shirley Temple? She is a movie star.
When did she become a movie star?
When she was three years old.
3. Language structure:
Passive voice: be born Adverbial clauses with when When/ How long questions
4. Key words:
achievement, record, Brazilian skater, violinist, pianist, sneezing, hiccupping
start, stop, first went, first had, learned, talented, loving, creative, outstanding, unusual Recycling: Japanese, Ping-pong player, basketball player, tennis player, soccer player, champion, great, born, star, golfer, music, musician, sports, bicycle, movie, party, beautiful, kind, famous,
Who is…? When questions
5. Learning strategies:
Cooperating, Using what you know.
Period One
Warming up
Write the word born on the blackboard and tell students we are going to talk about when some students were born. Let’s find out when some of you born.
When is your birthday? April the first.
When were you born? In 1990.
Then ask students to think of some famous sports stars, or athletes, and write their names under International Sports Stars.
Listening
Get the students listen carefully and write the date under each person was born. Play the recording twice and get the students to listen and write down the answers to each picture.
Martin Hingis: 1980
Michael Jordan : 1963
David Beckham: 1975
Pair work
Point out the conversation in the box in activity 1c. ask two students to read it to the class. Ask the students work with a partner. Make your own conversations about the people in the picture. Then ask several pairs to say their conversations to the class.
2A and 2B Listening
Get the students look at the picture and teach them the words hiccup and sneeze. And point out the columns in the chart and read the column headings to the class. Then explain the meaning of the words at the top of each column.
(1c) First ask a pair of students to read the example conversation ,the other students repeat. Then ask the students to work in pairs.(First one person asks a question and then the other person takes a turn.)
Demonstrate the activity.
T: Who is that?
S: That is Deng Ya ping. She is a great Chinese ping-pong player.
T: When was she born? S: She was born in 1973
Ask the students to work in pairs. Then ask some pairs to act it out .
Step4.(2a) Talk the pictures with the students. Then tell them each sentence talks about one of the pictures.
Let the students say some of the world’s recorded. then finish the chart on the book
Step 5 (2b) Play the recording twice and then ask the students repeat the sentences one by one.
Step 6.(2c) Demonstrate the activity.
T: How long did Charles Smith hiccup?
S1: He hiccupped for 69 years and ? months.
T: When did he start hiccupping
S2: He started in -----
T: When did he stop hiccupping?
S3: He stopped in-----
Then ask the students to work in pairs.
Homework: