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　　Unit9 When was he born?
　　Teaching Goals:
　　1. Learn to use “be born” to ask sb sth
　　2.掌握一般过去时态的以how long , when , where 等疑问词开头的特殊疑问句.
　　3.能用有关的形容词来描述人，并能用一般过去时来谈论熟知的、敬佩的人物
　　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
　　Period One
　　Step1  Warming up
　　Write the word born on the blackboard and tell students we are going to talt 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 asdents to think of some famous sports stars, or athletes, and write their names under International Sports Stars.
　　Step2  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
　　Step3  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. Mar own conversations about the people in the picture. Then ask several pairs to say their conversations to the class. 
　　(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 asestion and then the other person tarn.)
　　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 and 2B Listening
　　(2a)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. 
　　Let the students say some of the world’s recorded. then finish the chart on the book
　　(2b) Play the recording twice and then ask the students repeat the sentences one by one.
　　Step5.  (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.