Teaching aims:
Knowledge aim:
Students will master the expression of date and the sentence structure: -What is ...’s birthday? -It is ...
Ability aim:
Students will improve their abilities of speaking and listening.
Emotional aim:
Students will be more confident in speaking English.
Key and difficult point:
Key Point: Students will master how to express a date in English.
Difficult Point: Students will use the sentence structure in daily life.
Teaching procedure:
Step 1: Warming-up
1. Greetings.
2. Ask students if today is anyone’s birthday. And invite the whole class to sing a ‘Happy Birthday’ song to him or her.
Step 2: Pre-listening
1. Review the knowledge about ordinal numeral: write some numbers on the blackboard and ask students to change the cardinal numeral into ordinal numeral.
2. Ask students to look at the picture in the textbook to predict what the dialogue may be about.
Step 3: While-listening
1st listening: Ask students to listen to the tape for the first time and check if their prediction is correct or not.
2nd listening: Ask students to listen to the tape for the second time and complete the form below.

3rd listening: Ask students to listen to the tape for the third time, read after the tape and invite
Several students to summarize how to express the date, paying attention to the preposition used: in + month
On+ month+ ordinal numeral form of date Step4: Post-listening
(1) Role-play: ask students to practice this dialogue in pairs.
(2) Survey: ask students to make a survey about the date of friends: or family members: birthday. Steps: Summary and Homework
Summary： ask a student to conclude the content of the lesson and summarize with the whole class. Homework: ask students to practice the sentence structure learned today with desk mates after class.
Blackboard design: