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!