Unit 9 When was he born?(3a ---- 4b Section A)
Teacher: XU FANTime: Nov. 30th, 2006
Task1: PairworkLook at the following pictures and the information.Make new conversations according to 1c and 2c.
Liu Guoliang, a Chinese table tennis athlete
Date of birth: Jan. 10th, 1976
Time of beginning: 6 years old
Time of ending: March in 2003
win many gold medals in Olympic Games and World Championships
Liu Xuan, a Chinese gymnast
Date of birth: Mar. 12th, 1979
Time of beginning: 8 years old
Time of ending: 2001
play gymnastics
Zhang Guorong, a Chinese actor and singerDate of birth: Sep. 12th, 1956
Time of beginning: 1977(singing) 1978 (performing in movies)Time of ending: Apr. 1st, 2002
Fu Mingxia, a Chinese diving athlete
Date of birth: Aug. 16th, 1978
Time of beginning: 1987
Time of ending: 2000
dive v. 跳水
Michael Schumacher,
a German race driver
Date of birth: Jan. 3rd, 1969
Time of beginning: 1984
Time of ending: September, 2006
drive race cars
Martina Hingis, a Swiss tennis athlete
Date of birth: Sep. 30th, 1980
Time of beginning: 2 years old
Time of ending: Feb, 2002
Michael Jordan, an Amerian basketball athlete
Date of birth: Feb. 17th, 1963
Time of beginning in NBA: 1984
Time of ending: 1999
Tiger Woods, American golfer
Mozart, Austrian Composer
Ronaldo,Brazilian soccer athlete
Mei Lanfang,Beijing Opera actor
Shirley Temple,American movie star
Task 2: 3a, 3b PairworkStudent A, read the article on page55.Student B, read the article on page84.Fill in as many blanks as you can in the chart.
Now exchange information with your partnerto complete the chart.
Achievement Age
Tiger Woods started golfing 10 months
old
Shirley Temple
became a movie star 3 years old
Mozart started writing music 4 years old
Mei Lanfang performing Beijing Opera
10 years old
Ronaldo played for national team
17 years old
Liu Xuan won Championships gold medal
17 years old
Task 3: GroupworkInterview your group members by asking “How old were you when you …?”. And fill in the chart.
Choose one of you to tell the classmates what you learned about each one of your group members according the example.
Homework:
Write an interview report about your family members or yourgroup members.
Thank you!
Good-bye!