Using LanguageⅡ教案（名师）

showing our feelings

Teaching aims:

1. Get to know the use of body language as the expression of personal emotions and reactions. 2. Improve the Ss to understand the importance of the Body Language through reading. Teaching important points: Enable the Ss to understand the text better. Improve the Ss’ reading ability.

Teaching difficult point: Get to know the same body language have different meanings in some different countries. Step Ⅰ warming up 1. Do you know the meaning of these gestures? (Let Ss guess the meaning of some gestures) 2.

What are you feeling now? 3.

How do you show your feeling? (For example: angry, happy) Step Ⅱ Reading Task 1: Detailed reading 1. If you agree with sb, what will you act? 2. How to show your feeling? Ask Ss to read para.2-5 carefully, and then fill in the form.

action

feeling / meaning

anger threatening sb agreement

be not interested in protect yourself be interested in sb. do not believe or not like sth. 3. Ask several Ss to act those feelings. 4. Summary: some body language is similar everywhere. Task 2: 1. Does the same body language always have the same meaning in some different countries? Ask Ss to give examples 2. Show some examples, let Ss know that body language varies from culture to culture. Task 3: Scanning 1.. Read through the text carefully and then complete the True or False questions. ( F ) 1. Body language is never as important as spoken language. ( T ) 2. If you are angry at a person, you might turn your back to him or her. ( F ) 3. You can threaten a person by refusing to speak. ( F ) 4. If you stand with your arms across your body, you are always protecting yourself from being physically attacked. ( T ) 5. If you sit looking away from a person, or with your back turned, you’re saying you’re not interested in that person.

( T ) 6. You should not greet your new boss by giving her or him a hug. ( F ) 7. Body language is the same all over the world. ( T ) 8. Most people can understand each other if they try 2. Ask Ss to check the answers use body language

Rule: You will be provided with 8 “T” or“F” questions. Each time you give a wrong answer, you have to sit down, which means you are out. 3. If the sentence is false, explain why it is wrong? 4. Play the tape and let Ss enjoy the passage. 5. Q: Is body language important? Step III Discussion 1.

Human body language is similar to same animal body language. Chimps are closer to human in behaviour than any other animal, and we can see their emotions and reactions in their body language. 2.

Discussion: Why did Jane Goodall study the chimp’s body language?

Step IV Homework 1.

Read the text after class.

2.

Do exercises on page 64