Teaching Goals:

1. Talk about the famous person you admire.

2. Learn some expressions of career;

3. Talk about the past experience;

4. talk about the achievement of oneself or others;

5. Write a passage introducing the experience of one’s own and others.

6. Learn to write a brief biography of somebody.

Teaching Guide

1. Language functions: talk about successful person.

2. Language goals:

Who’s that? That’s Deng Yaping. She is a great ping-pong player.

When was she born? She was born in 1973.

Who’s Shirley Temple? She is a movie star.

When did she become a movie star?

When she was three years old.

3. Language structure:

Passive voice: be born Adverbial clauses with when When/ How long questions

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

5. Learning strategies:

Cooperating, Using what you know.

Period One

Warming up

Write the word born on the blackboard and tell students we are going to talk about 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 ask students to think of some famous sports stars, or athletes, and write their names under International Sports Stars.

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

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. Make your own conversations about the people in the picture. Then ask several pairs to say their conversations to the class.

2A and 2B Listening

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.

(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 asks a question and then the other person takes a turn.)

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) Talk the pictures with the students. Then tell them each sentence talks about one of the pictures.

Let the students say some of the world’s recorded. then finish the chart on the book

Step 5 (2b) Play the recording twice and then ask the students repeat the sentences one by one.

Step 6.(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.

Homework:

1. Make sentences with the words on page 53

2. Make conversations with sentences: Who is thst…?

When was she born…?

Period Two

Step1.Greet the class as usual and check the homework.

Step2 .New words learning

Golf Brazilian Professional Achievement Perform

Step 3, students try to find out some phrases in the text.

Invite one student read the little passage then the others read them together

Then finish the chart below

Step4.conversation making

Students work in pairs to make conversation with the information on 3a

Step 5.3b.

Tell the students the three pairs are all in the big picture above. Please find them in the picture. Make sure the students understand the questions. Then ask them to write the answers according to the picture.

4a, Interview

How old were you when you started doing the things below? interview your classmates and fill in the chart.

Write this sample question on the blackboard:

When did you learn to ride a bike? then ask two students ask and answer question.

Then students ask each other this question

Homework:

1. Make sentences with the words on 4a

Make two conversations after the conversation in 3a..

Period 3. （section B 1a-3a）

Step 1.Teach the words:

Talented loving outstanding unusual creative grandchild violinist skating skater become

Step2. Ask students to name the places in the pictures ,

Using the words giving to describe the picture

Arthur is a loving grandfather .

He spends all his free time with his grandchildren

Step 3. Make a conversation with one student. The student should tell the truth. Then ask the students to make conversations like this.

Step 4. 2a and 2b listening part

Play the recording three times for the students finish 2a and 2b.

Step 5 2c.

Make a short conversation with one student.

T: who is Midori? S1:She is a famous violinist..

T :When was she born? S2:She was born in 1971.

Then ask the students to practice in pairs and to take both roles.

Step 6. 3a.

1. Ask the students to read the passage silently and circle the description words.

2. Answer the questions students may have.

3. Play the tape for the students listen and repeat.

4. Students read the passage aloud.

Homework:

1. Make a sentence with each new word on page 56

2. Recite 3a.

3. Write about a famous person.

Period 4.

Step1

Show the new words on the screen

Pianist hum piece accordion Chopin receive honor alive athlete took part in competition

Step 2. 3b.

Look at the information in activity 2b .W rite an article about Laura

Then ask some students to read their own

Step 3. Self check 1

Ask the students read the words one by one and find out the meanings of any words they don’t know.

Step4. 3

1. Students read the passage.

2. Make sure the students understand the phrases:

Start to. do sth. Be born in

Take a taxi Tsinghua University

Join a team The first prize

Major in In the speech competition

3. Students read together

4. Enjoy just for fun together.

Homework:

1. Ask each student to write one students in our class

2.Make a conversation of talking about famous person

A: Who's that?

B: That’s Deng Yaping. She’s a great Chinese ping-pong player.

A: When was she born?

B: She was born in 1973.

A: Who’s that?

B: That’s Michael Jordan. He is a great American basketball player.

A: When was he born?

B: He was born in 1963.

A: Who’s that?

B: That’s Martina Hingis. She is a great Swiss tennis player.

A: When was she born?

B: She was born in1980.

A: Who’s that?

B: That’s David Beckham. He’s a great British soccer player.

A: When was he born?

B: He was born in 1975.

G: Who’s that?

B: Charles Smith. He holds the world record for hiccupping. He hiccupped for 69 years and 5 months.

G: When did he start hiccupping?

B: He started hiccupping in1922.

G: And when did he stop?

B: He stopped it in 1990.

G: How could he hiccup for that long?

B: I don’t know. Oh, look, this is Donna Green.

G: What’s she famous for?

B: Sneezing. She sneezed for 978 days.

G: Really? When did she start sneezing?

B: Let’s see. It says she started sneezing on January 13, 1981, and she sneezed until September 16, 1983.

G: Wow! That’s a long time.

B: Who do you admire?

G: I admire Midori.

B: Midori? Who’s that?

G: She is a famous violinist.

B: Oh, yeah. She is a Japanese, isn’t she?

G: Yes, she was born in Osaka in 1971. when she was eight, she was already a talented violinist. When she was 14, she toured the United States. I saw her play when I was 8.

B: Wow. Do you have any of her CDs?

G: Yes, I do. I play them all the time. But how about you? Who do you admire?

B: I admire my Grandmother, Laura.

G: Really? Why? 、

B: Well, she was born in Russia in 1932. she was an unusual girl because she started ice skating when she was 4, and she became a skating champion when she was 10.

G: A skating champion? Did she have to work hard?

B: Yes, very hard. But that was a long time ago. Now she’s a kind and loving grandmother.

翻譯下列句子：

1. 任何時候開始做事情都不算太早。

You’re never ___ young ____ _____ doing things.

2. 例如，Tiger Woods 在十個月大時就開始打高爾夫球。

____ _____, Tiger Woods started ______ ____ _____ ____ _____ ten months old.

3. 莫扎特四歲時就開始了音樂創作。

Mozart _____ ____ _____ when he was four years old.

4. 羅納爾多，巴西著名足球運動員，十七歲時就為國家隊效力。Ronaldo, the great Brazilian _____ _____, ___ ___ for his national team __ ___ ___ ___ 17.

5.秀蘭鄧波爾三歲時就成為一名電影明星。

Shirley Temple ___ ____ ____ ____ when she was only 3.

6. 梅蘭芳十歲的時候首次登臺演唱京劇。

Mei Lanfang ____ ____ Beijing Opera at ___ ____ ___ ten.

7. 中國體操運動員劉璇在十七歲時就贏得了世界冠軍聯賽的金牌。Liu Xuan, the Chinese _____, ____ a gold medal at the World Championship when ____ _____ ______.

8. 中國著名鋼琴演奏家，李云迪一直熱愛音樂。

Li Yundi, the ___ Chinese ___, always ___ ___.

9. 1982年他出生在重慶。

He ____ ___ in 1982 in Chongqing.

10. 當他還是小男孩的時候，他就可以哼歌曲和不同難度的樂曲。When he ____ ____ ____ boy, he could ____ ____ and difficult _____ ____ music.

11. 他四歲開始學手風琴，七歲開始學鋼琴。

He started to _____ _____ ____ when he ____ ___, and he started to learn the piano ____ ____ ___ ___ ___.

12. 在2000年十月，他參加了在波蘭舉行的第十四屆肖邦國際鋼琴大賽。 In _____ 2000, he _____ _____ _____ the 14th Chopin International Piano Competition in Poland.

13.在同組他獲得了一等獎。

He ____ ____ ____ ___ in his group.

14.他也是在肖邦國際鋼琴比賽70年的歷史上，第一個獲此殊榮的中國鋼琴家。He was also the first Chinese pianist in the ______ ______ of the competition ____ _____ _____ ______.

句型轉換和單詞填空：

1. He had to stay there for two hours.

2. He took many photos on the Great Wall last year.

3. She started ice skating when she was four.

4. He went to bed after his father came back.

5. I lived here for about five years.

6. We moved to Xi’an five years ago.

7. His grandma was born in 1919.

8. She started writing books when she was 10.

9. I feel like s _____ often. I’m afraid I have a cold.

10. The girl is good at drawing. She is a t______ painter.

11. She has a kind and l___ grandmother. She loves her grandmother very much.

12. It was an u______ day in my life. I will never forget that day.

13. I like to listen this p_____ of music.

14. Chopin was a great p______.