Unit 5 When was he born?
Section A
Language Goal:Talk about famous people
1a Make a list of international sports stars
you know.
1b Listen and write year the sports star
was born under each photo.
Conversation 1
Who's that?That's Deng Yaping.
She's is a great Chinese ping-pong player.
When was she born?She was born in 1973.
Conversation 2
Who's that.That'Michale Jordan.
He's a great Amierca basketball player.
When was he born?He was born in 1963.
Conversation 3
Who's that?That's Martina Hingisl.
She a great Swiss tennis player.
When was she bord.She was born in 1980.
Conversation 4
Who's that?That's Davis Beckham,
He's a great British soccer player.
When was he born?He was born in 1975.
1c PAIRWORK
Practice the conversation about Deng yaping below.
Then make conversations about the other sports stars.
Who's that?
That's Deng Yaping.
She is a great Chinese ping-pong player.
When was she born?
She was born in 1973.
2a Listen and fill in the "How long" column in the chart.
Who's that?Charles Smith.
He holds the world record for hiccupping.
He hiccupped for 69 years and 5 months.
When did he start hiccupping?
He started hiccupping in 1922.
And when did he stop?He stopped in 1990.
How could he hiccup for that long?I don't know.
Oh,look,this is Donna Green.
What's she famous for?Sneezing.
She sneezed for 978 days.
Really?When did she start sneezing?
Let's see.It says she started sneezing
on January 13,1981,and she sneezed until September 16,1983.
Wow!That's a long time.
2b Listen again and fill in the "Started" and
"Stopped" columns in the chart above.
2c PAIRWORK
Fill in the blanks with information from the
chart in activity 2a.
Practice the conversation with a partner.
Then have the same kind of conversation about
Donna Green.
Grammar Focus
When was he born?
He was born in 1895.
How long did he hiccup?
He hiccupped for 69 years and 5 months.
When did he start hiccupping?
He started hiccupping in 1922.
3a PAIRWORK
Student A,read this article and fill in as
many blanks as you can in the chart.
Student B,go to page 69.
You are never too young to start doing things.
For example,Tiger Woods stares golfing when
he was only was four year old.
Mozart startes writing music
when he was four years old.
And Ronaldo,the great Brzailian soccer player,
played for his national team
when her was seventeen.
3b Now exchange information with your partner
and fill in the chart.
Who is Shirley Temple?
She's a movie star.
When did she become a movie star?
When she was three years old.
4a INTERVIEW
How old were you when...
How old were you when you started doing
the things below?
Interview your classmates and fill in the chart.
Name
Achievement
learned to ride a bicycle
started learning English
started playing a sport
first went to a movie
first had a party
Age
More information
4b Tell your classmates what you learned about
one student.
Selina started things early.
She went to her first movie when she was three
years old!
It was a comedy called...