Step 1 Warm up and lead-in.

1．Listen to a song. T: What can you hear? (the twelve months. Learn the new word: month)

2．Share: How can you remember the words? (When students answer, according to students' answers, show the picture to help remember and understand the words. )

　3. T: My birthday is in August.

　　(Read the sentences. -- My birthday is in August.)

　　T: When is your birthday?

S1: My birthday is in...(Show a birthday cake and say"The birthday cake is for you."

　　Read the sentences:

　　When is your birthday? -- My birthday is in August.

4．T: We'll learn unit 8 When is your birthday? (Read the title.)

Step 2 Work on 1a.

　　1. Listen and repeat.

2. Students say one by one: My birthday is in...(When students say, show the month words.)

Step 3 Presentation.

1. Compare:

2. Can you know the differences: My birthday is in August.

My birthday is on August 1st.

　　3. Learn the ordinal numbers.

　　 (1) Present the ordinal numbers

　　 (2) Read the Students' Book P81.

　　(3) Work on 2a. Listen and repeat.

(4) 基数词变为序数词的顺口溜: 基变序，有规律，一、二、三特殊记，词尾字母t, d, d；

　　-th 四加起，八少t来九去e； （从4起在词尾加th）

　　ve变f替，y要变ie。若想表示几十几，只变个位就可以。

Step 4 . Working on 1b.

　　2. Listen and repeat.

　　4. Practice reading some dates.

Step 5 Pair work.

Ask the Ss to ask and answer about their own birthdays.

　　A: When is your birthday, Wang Ming?

　　B: My birthday is on May 5th.

Step 6 Listening practice.

(1) Work on 2b. Listen and circle the numbers you hear in 2a.

(2) Work on 2c. Listen and match the names, months and dates.

　　(3) Listen and read the conversations after the record.[K]

Step 7 . Pair work. Work on 2d.

　　1. Ask some Ss about the birthdays of the four students in 2c.

　　T: When is Alice's birthday, S1?

　　S1: Her birthday is on September 5th.

　　T: When is Frank's birthday, S2？

　　S2: His birthday is on ...

T: Now ask and answer about the birthdays of the four students in 2c with your partner.

　　(Ss work in pairs to ask and answer about their birthdays.)

2. Do you know your parents' birthday? Ask your partner about the birthday in his or her family?

　　S1: When is your father's birthday?

　　S2: His birthday is on September 10th.

　　S1: When is your mother's birthday?

　　S2: Her birthday is on August 20th.

　　 (Then S2 ask S1 about the birthdays in his or her family.)

Step 8 . Homework

　　1. Remember the new words we learned today.

2. Look at the chart below and write a conversation between you and Mike like 2d.