* National Day is in ____________.(October)

* Thanksgiving Day is in ____________.(November)

* Christmas Day is in ______________.(December)

（设计说明：通过猜测有关日历的谜语，自然引出12个月份。并通过引导学生们谈论熟悉的节假日所在的月份，进一步加深了学生们对于月份的印象。）

(3) Tell the Ss that New Year's Day is coming. Ask the Ss:

-When is New Year's Day?

-It's on January 1st.

The Ss may not know how to say "January 1st" in the right way, so the teacher can give necessary help. Help the Ss to know that when they talk about the day of a month, they need to use the ordinal numbers.

(4) Show the Ss a chart of the ordinal numbers'(from 1-31), and tell the Ss these are the ordinal numbers in a month and ask them to pay more attention to the last two letters of each ordinal number (from 1-31) .

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31th

Help the Ss to realize: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd have different last letters, comparing with the other numbers which end up with "th".

Play 2a and ask the Ss to learn how to read the ordinal numbers in the right way after the tape.

（设计说明：通过谈论即将到来的新年，引出日期的表述方式：月份+序数词。由于本节课的教学目标要求学生能正确读出1-31内相关的序数词即可，所以在学生认读1-31内相关的序数词时，着重设计的活动是让学生首先自己观察序数词变化的相关规律，然后教师再做