二、考题解析 【教案】 Teaching aims: Knowledge aim: Students will master the expression of date and the sentence structure: -What is ...’s birthday? -It is ... Ability aim: Students will improve their abilities of speaking and listening. Emotional aim: Students will be more confident in speaking English. Key and difficult point: Key Point: Students will master how to express a date in English. Difficult Point: Students will use the sentence structure in daily life. Teaching procedure: Step 1: Warming-up 1. Greetings. 2. Ask students if today is anyone’s birthday. And invite the whole class to sing a ‘Happy Birthday’ song to him or her. Step 2: Pre-listening 1. Review the knowledge about ordinal numeral: write some numbers on the blackboard and ask students to change the cardinal numeral into ordinal numeral. 2. Ask students to look at the picture in the textbook to predict what the dialogue may be about. Step 3: While-listening 1st listening: Ask students to listen to the tape for the first time and check if their prediction is correct or not.