--Who’s that?
--That’s Deng Yaping. She is a great Chinese ping pong player.
--When was she born?
--She was born in 1973.
Review and talk about these pictures: (要用到的句型)
Yao Ming
Birthday ---1980.9.12
Basketball player
Messi
Birthday (1987.6.24 )
A famous football
player
Lin Dan
Birthday (1983.10.14 )
A famous badminton player
2a Listen and fill in the “How long” column in the chart.
Listen and fill in the chart.
69 years and 5 months
978 days
1922
January
13,1981
1990
September
16,1983
2b Listen again and fill in the “started” and “stopped” columns in the chart.
A: How long did Charles Smith hiccup?
Boy: He hiccupped for_______ years and ____ months.
A: When did he start hiccupping?
Boy: He started in________.
A: When did he stop hiccupping?
Boy: He stopped in _______ .
69
5
1922
1990
2c  Pairwork
A: How long did Donna Green sneeze?
Boy: He sneezed for ________ .
A: When did he start sneezing?
Boy: He started __________________.
A: When did he stop sneezing?
Boy: He stopped _____________________.
978 days
on January 13, 1981
on September 16, 1983
根据2b表格中人信息补全下列对话：
Make a similar dialogue like these:
A: How long did you study English?
Boy: I studied English for ____ years and ____  months.
A: When did you start to study English?
Boy: I started to study English in ____. 
A: When did you stop studying English?
Boy: I stopped in_______.
1. How long did Charles hiccup?  查尔斯打嗝多久了？
    He hiccupped for 69 years and 5 months.  他打嗝69年5个月。
    “How long”是就一段时间进行提问,因此回答时用一定加介词for, 并且后面加表示一段的时间。   
Language points
例: 你在校学英语多久了？我学英语一年了。
        How long did you learn English at school?
        I learned English for one year.
2. When did he start hiccupping?                       他什么时候开始打嗝的？
    He started hiccupping in 1922.                          他从1922年开始打嗝。
    “when”是对具体时间进行提问, 回答时用表示时间的一点的短语, 如“in 1922”，注意与“How long”的区别。
3. start的用法
    start意为“开始”后接名词，动名词或动词不定式。常用短语：
    start doing sth. /  start to do sth.
    例: The birds started singing / to sing in the tree．
   鸟儿开始在树上唱歌。
4. When did he stop hiccupping?
    stop的用法, 常用的两个短语
stop doing sth. 停止做某事(停止正在做的事情, 不再做了)
stop to do sth. 停下来去做某事(停止原来做的事情去做另外一件事)
例: Class begins. Let’s stop talking.
    When the teacher came in, we all stopped talking.
    Class is over, Let’s stop to have a rest.
5. You are never too young to start doing things.
      too ... to ...结构表示“太……以致不能……”。too是副词，其后跟形容词或副词的原级；to是不定式符号，其后跟动词原形。
例如：
The bag is too heavy to carry.
这个包太沉了，背不动。
【拓展】
      so ... that ... 结构表示“如此……以致……”。它可与too ... to ... 结构进行转换。例如：
The girl is too young to go to school.
= The girl is so young that she can’t go to school.