Lesson 7 Months of the Year优秀教学实录

Lesson7 Months of the Year Teaching goals: 1、

Students will be able to aurally understand, orally use, recognize and spell the following vocabulary:

Month, Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, Jun., Jul., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec. 2、Students will be able to aurally understand and orally use these sentences:

What’s your favorite month?

Whose birthday is in…? 3、Students will be able to sing the song Twelve Months. Teaching preparation: 1、

Audiotape or multimedia CD for Lesson 7. 2、

Flash cards for 12 months. 3、A calendar. Teaching process: Step 1:

Greeting

Play the Twelve Months song as students arrive for class. Say:“hello”to students. Be positive and tell them that a new unit is about to begin. When everyone is ready to listen, begin with a general talk about learning. Emphasize that the previous unit gave them information and words to talk about basic things in their classroom. Now, we are going to dig deeper and begin to learn how to talk about things that are not necessarily related to school. Step 2:

Lesson hook

When is your birthday? It’s a very special day. So let’s learn how to tell others which month and what day. And of course, let’s learn how to do it using English. Step 3:

Teach new concepts 1、Months of the year Begin by asking some students to tell when their birthday is (using Chinese).Explain the meaning of month. Write the word on the board and have students say it after you. Ask general questions about month：How many days in a month?

Lead the students to an understanding that different months have different number of days. See if anyone can tell you (in Chinese) which is the shortest month (Feb.), which months have 30 days and which months for 31 days. Use your calendar to help the students see the months. You can practice counting here as well. Point to each day on the calendar and count the days. Ask more questions: What can we do August? (swim, play outdoors, vacation) What

can do in December?

Ask students to open their books to page 18 and look at part 1. Point to each month on the blackboard, say the month and ask the students to repeat after you. Find the month in

their books and ask them to say it again. Repeat this process, pointing to the month on the blackboard, then in the book and saying it aloud.

Ask students to look at the pictures. What do they see between January and February? (snow) Repeat this process for all the months. Lead the students to understand that the months can be talked about using weather as your guide.

Play the audiotape and follow along. Play it again, only this time ask the students to say the months as they hear them on the audiotape. Practice: Ask: Whose birthday is in January? Those students should hold up their hands. Repeat for all 12 months.

Put the 12 month flash cards in different places in the classroom. Tell the students to find the flash card for their birth month and stand beside that flash card.

Ask the students to take their seats. Now I want to find out What is your favorite

month? First, tell the students what my favorite month is and why it is my favorite .Then ask volunteers to tell what is their favorite month. Point to a student and say: What’s your

favorite month? The student should by now be able to answer my question using: My favorite

month is ____. 2、Let’s sing! Okay, boys and girls. Let’s learn a new song. It will help you really remember the days of the month! Play the Twelve months song once and listen to it for pleasure. Play it a second time, now, point to the months as they are sounded in the song. Ask the students to look at page 18, part 2. Read the words to the song aloud. Then, read it aloud as the students follow along and read it with you. Ask for 12 students to come forward. Assign one month to each student. Give the students the flash cards. Now play the song and the students sing along. January sings that word and holds up the card, then, February and so on until the whole song is completed. 3、Let’s do it!

Group work. Ask and answer. Then write.

This is a group work activity. Make new groups. Then ask students to look at page 19, part 3. First, teach the students the abbreviated forms for the 12 months. Explain the exercise using the graphic as the model.

The students need to make a chart like the one shown here. One student will be the recorder of the birthdays. That student asks: Whose birthday is in Jan.? Those students whose birthdays are in that month answer with My birthday is in Jan. The recorder then writes the student’s name in the correct place in the chart. Repeat until all students in the group have answered the question and their names have been entered in the chart. As the students work on this exercise, go around the room and listen and assist where necessary. 4、Let’s play!

Now, let’s have some fun and play the Bingo game.

Ask the students to look at page 19, part 4, and explain how to do this game.

Each student needs a blank bingo game sheet and a pencil. Ask the students to divide the sheet evenly into nine squares. Ask the students to write any nine month words onto their bingo game sheet. Each student must mix up the sequence of the words as much as

possible. If every student has the same sequence of words, the game will not work.

Call out any three month words. When a student, or students, marks a row of words in any direction on his or her bingo sheet, he or she calls out Bingo! Have a summary: Repeat the above knowledge together. And sing the Twelve months song together. Homework: 1、

To read and memorize new words. 2、

To read and remember the key sentence pattern. 3、

Write about your favourite month and the reason. Typography design:

Lesson 7 Months of the Year January

Jan

February

Feb

March

April

Apr

May

June

July

Jul

August

Aug

September

October

Oct

November

Nov

December These are the twelve months of the year. What’s your favorite month? Mar

Jun Sep

Dec