Talk about famous people: Who’s he/she? When was he/she born? Achievement and age （成就）

Unit5 When was he born?

• 第二课时（ Section A 3a---Section B 2C ）

too…to… 太…而不能。“too…to…” 是英语中常用的一种结构，其句型为“ too ＋形容词或副词原级＋ to do …” ，译为“太…而（以致）不能…”。它在形式上是肯定的，但在意义上是否定的。 “ too…to…” 本身已含有否定的意思，因此，不定式前一般不加 not ．The boy is too young to go to school.The box is too heavy for me to carry.

Achievement Age

Tiger Woods golfing

Shirley Temple

Mozart

Mei Lanfang

Ronaldo

Liu Xuan

movie star

ten months old

three years old

writing music four years old

performing Beijing Opera ten years old

Played for national team seventeen years old

World Championships gold medal

seventeen years old

Tiger Woodsgolf player

ten months old

A: Who’s that?B: That’s Tiger Woods. He is a famous Californian golf player.A: When did he start golfing?B: when he was only ten months old.

start golfing

Shirley Templemovie star

three years old

A: Who’s that?B: That’s Shirley Temple. She was a great Californian movie star.A: When did she become a movie star?B: She became a movie star when she was three years old.

April 23rd 1928

Mei Lanfang

dramatist （戏剧家）1894

A: Who’s that?B: That’s Mei Lanfang. He was a famous Chinese dramatist.A: When did he start performing Beijing Opera?B: when he was ten.

Perform Beijing Opera

Mozartmusician

Ronaldosoccer player

Liu Xuangymnast

--Who’s --Who’s Liu XuanLiu Xuan??--She’s --She’s a Chinese gymnasta Chinese gymnast..--When did she --When did she win a gold medal?win a gold medal?--She --She won a gold medalwon a gold medal When she was When she was 1717.

learned to ride a bicycle? started learning English?

started playing sports? first went to a movie?

first had a party?

Who helped you?

How old were you when you

4a Interview

learned to ride a bicycle?

started learning English?

started playing sports? first went to a movie?

first had a party?Who helped you?etc

How old were you when you

4a Interview

4b Tell your classmates what you learned about one student.

A: Selina started things early. She went to her first movie when she was three years old ! It was a comedy called…

Section B

JackieChan

He is an actor. He was born in 1954 in China. He often does Chinese Kong fu in the movies, and he sings well, too.

He is from Xingjiang. He was born in 1968 . He is funny and famous host in CCTV. He likes to say “Yeah!” .

Li Li YongYong

1a write one or two words to describe the person.

talented

loving

Outstanding

unusual

beautiful

kind

creative

famous

2a Listen. Two people are talking about people they admire. Circle the words in the list in activity 1a that you hear.

talented loving outstanding unusual

beautiful creative kind famous

1. She is a famous violinist.2. She was born in 1971.3. She started ice skating when she was four.4. I saw her play when I was eight.5. She’s kind and loving grandmother.6. She was born in 1932.7. She became a skating champion when she was ten.8. She toured the U.S. when she was fourteen.

MM

MMLLMMLLLLLL

MM

2b Listen again. Are these sentences about Midori or Laura? Write “M” or “L” on the lines.

See sb do sth. 表示看见某人做了某事或看见某人经常做某事See sb doing sth. 表示看见某人正在做某事I saw him come into the classroom just now.I often saw him play the piano in the room.I saw him playing the piano when I came back.

-Who do you admire?

-I admire Midori.

-Midori? Who’s that?

-She’s a famous violinist.

-Oh, yeah. She’s Japanese, isn’t she?

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

-Wow. Do you have any of her CDs?

-Yes, I do. I play them all the time. But how about you?

Who do you admire?

-I admire my grandmother, Laura.

-Really? Why?

-Well, she was born in Russia in 1932. She was an unusual girl because she started ice skating when she was four, and she became a skating champion when she was ten.

-A skating champion? Did she have to work hard?

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

2c

A. Who is Midori?B. She is a famous violinist.A. When was she born?B. She was born in 1971.A. When did she tour the US?B. When she was fourteen.

spend ( 主语通常是人 )

(1) spend (time/money) doing sth. 花多少时间 / 金钱做某事

(2) speng (time/money) on sth. 在做某事上花了多少时间 / 金钱

(3) speng (time) with sb. 与某人共度时光

spend ( 主语通常是人 )

(1) spend (time/money) doing sth. 花多少时间 / 金钱做某事

(2) speng (time/money) on sth. 在做某事上花了多少时间 / 金钱

(3) speng (time) with sb. 与某人共度时光

I spent 2 hours _______ (do) my homework last night.

He spends 35 yuan ______ this CD.

A. in B. on C. at D. of

I spent one week _______ my grandma last summer.

A. on B. about C. with D. at

I spent 2 hours _______ (do) my homework last night.

He spends 35 yuan ______ this CD.

A. in B. on C. at D. of

I spent one week _______ my grandma last summer.

A. on B. about C. with D. at

doingdoing

spendspendspendspend比一比，练一练

see

(1) see sb. do sth. 看见某人做某事，强调过程

(2) see sb. doing sth. 看见某人正在做某事，强调状态

see

(1) see sb. do sth. 看见某人做某事，强调过程

(2) see sb. doing sth. 看见某人正在做某事，强调状态

I saw him _______ (read) in the classroom this morning.

I saw the little boy _______ (run) out of the house.

I saw him _______ (read) in the classroom this morning.

I saw the little boy _______ (run) out of the house.

readingreading

runrun

seeseeseesee比一比，练一练

What do you learn in this class?总结一下，这节课你学到了什么）

Everybody has dreams.

We should study hard tomake our dreams come true我们要努力学习去实现理想 !

Never give up!决不放弃 !

Never say die!永不言败 !

• 巩固性作业：掌握 be born 结构以及本节重要词组。

• 拓展性作业：根据 4a 填写的信息写一下自己的经历。