unit 1 when is your birthday?
一. 教学内容：
unit 1 when is your birthday? （section a）
（一）课标词汇、重点短语、句型结构
（二）语法知识：1. when questions 特殊疑问句
2. ordinal numbers 序数词
（三）语言运用：talk about dates and ages谈论日期和年龄
二、知识总结与归纳
（一）课标词汇、重点短语、句型结构
1. when is your birthday?
◎when 疑问副词，什么时候，何时，可以对日期，月份，钟点提问。
◎birthday
birthday party birthday present birthday cake birthday candle
happy birthday!
my birthday is june 4th.
august eighth,
2. months of the year
january february march april may june july august september october november december
3. date of birth
◎—what’s the date today?
—it’s may 5th.
—what day is （it） today?
—it’s sunday.
◎of
the name of the school
the cover of the book
◎birth
be born i was born in january.
4. age
what’s your age? = how old are you?
at the age of
we can go to school at the age of seven.
5. how old
◎—how old are you?
—i’m 13 （years old）.
◎he is an old man.
◎my bike is too old. i want a new one.
6. first second third fourth fifth sixth
seventh eighth ninth tenth eleventh twelfth
thirteenth fourteenth fifteenth sixteenth seventeenth
eighteenth nineteenth twentieth twenty-first twenty-second
thirtieth
（二）语法知识
1. when questions 特殊疑问句
--- when is your birthday?
--- my birthday is november 11th.
--- when is sarah’s birthday?
--- sarah’s birthday is january 21st.
在询问某人的生日时，使用when引导的特殊疑问句。
日期的常用表达方式有两种：（1）月日年，如：november 11，
（2）日月年，如：11 november，
2. ordinal numbers 序数词
first 1st second 2nd third 3rd fourth 4th fifth 5th sixth 6th
seventh 7th eighth 8th ninth 9th tenth 10th eleventh 11th twelfth 12th 共4页，当前第1页1234
thirteenth 13th fourteenth 14th fifteenth 15th sixteenth 16th
seventeenth 17th eighteenth 18th nineteenth 19th
twentieth 20th twenty-first 21st twenty-second 22nd
thirtieth 30th fortieth 40th fiftieth 50th sixtieth 60th
seventieth 70th eightieth 80th ninetieth 90th hundredth 100th
基数词变序数词口诀：
一二三，特殊记；-th从四加起。
八去t、九减e， ve要用f替。
ty结尾，y变为ie。
要是遇到“几十几”，只变个位就可以。
注意：
1. 序数词前要加the，如果序数词前有物主代词或名词所有格则不再用the。
sunday is the first day of a week.
my first teacher is miss li.
2. a/an 也能与序数词连用，意为“再一”“又一”相当于another。
now they have a second child--a son.
a third man went into the room.
（三）语言运用：talk about dates and ages谈论日期和年龄
when is your birthday?
how old are you?
1. which age groups in our culture like to talk about how old they are and which age groups don’t? in the united states, young children like to tell how old they are. teenagers are sometimes sensitive about age questions because they want people to think they are older than they really are. after age 25, it is not considered polite to ask someone’s age, except for business reasons. many people in the united states think it’s good to be young and bad to be old.
2. most american children celebrate birthdays with a cake with lighted candles on top, one candle for each year of their age. the birthday boy （or girl） is supposed to make a wish （without telling anyone what it is） and blow out the candles. if he blows out all of the candles with one breath, the wish will come true. singing "happy birthday to you" is also a tradition on birthdays.
some birthdays are more important than other birthdays, especially in the life of a teenager and young adult.
age 13: becomes a teenager
age 16: can obtain a driver’s license in the united states （for an automobile）
age 18: can register to vote
age 21: can legally drink alcohol
3. in china, people sometimes celebrate their lunar birthday rather than their solar birthday. chinese people also use twelve animals to symbolize the year in which one is born. the animals represent the twelve earthly branches, and they are the rat, the cattle, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig. 共4页，当前第2页1234
【典型例题】
一、单项选择
（ ）1. march 20th is ________ birthday.
a. i b. my c. mine d. he
（ ）2. september 5th is a __________.
a. year b. month c. date d, age
（ ）3. _________ is your birthday, john?
a. where b. what c. when d. how
（ ）4. ________ is your mother? she’s forty.
a. how old b. how c. how much d. what age
（ ）5.there are ________ months in a year. the ________ month is december.
a. twelve, twelve b. twelfth, twelfth c. twelve, twelfth d. twelfth, twelve
二、根据句意及首字母提示补全单词。
1. j____________ is the first month of the year.
2. there are twelve m__________ in a year.
3. children’s day is on j_______1st.
4. s___________10th is teachers’ day
5. ---w__________ is your birthday, william? ---it’s n_____________11th.
6. the fourth month of the year is a__________.
7. september is the n________ month of a year.
8. is december 5th your b_________________? no, it’s mary’s
9. bruce is eleven years old. w_________ is his birthday?
10. how o______ is your sister?
三、连词成句，并用这些句子完成对话
1. your /birthday /when /is /? _________________________________________________
2. birthday /16th /her /is /july /. _______________________________________________
3. old /12 /years /i’m /. ____________________________________________
4. is /karen /old /how /? __________________________________________________
5. birthday /when /paul’s /is /? _______________________________________________
6. a: _______________________________?
b: my birthday is october 8th.
7. a: how old are you?
b: _________________________________
8. a: when is jenny’s birthday?
b: _________________________________
9. a: _______________________________
b: she is 11 years old.
10. a: ______________________________
b: his birthday is march 29th.
四、阅读短文，填空并判断对错t or f
hi. my name is tom and i’m ten years old. today is january twelfth and my birthday is march the fourteenth. i have one brother and one sister. my brother’s name is mark. he is two years old. mark’s birthday is in november. my sister’s name is gina, and she’s thirteen. her birthday is in november, too.共4页，当前第3页1234
7. tom has a brother and a sister.
8. tom and mark are brothers.
9. gina is mark’s sister.
10. gina and tom were born （出生于）in november.
答案：
一、
1~5 b c c a c
二、
1. january 2. months 3. june 4. september 5. when, november
6. april 7. ninth 8. birthday 9. when 10. old
三、
1. when is your birthday?
2. her birthday is july 16th.
3. i’m 12 years old.
4. how old is karen?
5. when is paul’s birthday?
6. when is your birthday?
7. i’m 12 years old.
8. her birthday is july 16th.
9. how old is karen?
10. when is paul’s birthday?
四、
2. january twelfth 3. march fourteenth 4. one brother and one sister
5. 2 6. 13 7. t 8. t 9. t 10. f
