Learning about Language第一课时教学实录

Warming up and Reading Teaching goals

1. Target Language a. words and expressions b. key sentences 2. Ability goals a. Enable the students to realize the importance of body language. b. Enable the students to understand the text. c. Enable the students to retell the text in their own words. 3. Learning ability goals

Help the students learn how to explain the common idea—“different cultures, different body languages” with the target language in this unit.

Teaching important points

How does body language differ among people from different cultures? Teaching difficult points

The understanding of the poorly-written reading text, especially the relationship awkwardly built up between “you” and the other people in the text, who are met by the awkward arrangement of the compilers of the textbook. Teaching methods

Skimming method, task-based method, role-play method. Teaching aids

ppt Teaching procedures & ways Step I Lead-in 1. an outline of ways of communication a. spoken language b. written language c. body language ( including facial expressions, gesture, action) 2. show some pictures

a. facial expressions(happy, angry,sad, terrified)

b. gestures( good, bad, come here, me? I don’t know, ok, stop, silent, well done) c. what else gestures do you know? Step ⅱPre-reading 1. ways to greet someone without words (smile, wave, shake hands, hug, kiss, bow, etc.) 2. predicting

Step

ⅲ

Predicting 1. Look at the picture and the title of the passage on page 26. What do you think the topic will be?

Stepⅳ

Reading 1. First-reading Read the passage and divide the whole passage into several parts and find out the main idea. 2. Careful reading How do different international students behave when they greet people? Complete the chart with information from the passage.

Name

Description

Body Language no touching

To

Whom everyone

Tony Garcia

George

Cook

man from Japan

to men

to women

shake hands and kiss

twice on each cheek

3. Post-reading

Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

1. Englishmen often stand close to others or touch strangers as soon as they meet. 2. Most people around the world now greet each other by kissing. 3. Japanese will bow to others as greeting. 4. People from Jordan will move very close to you as you introduce yourself to

them.

5. Some body languages in some countries are good while some countries’ body

language are bad. 6. People from different countries may have a major misunderstanding while

greeting each other. 7. All members of a culture behave in the same way. Keys: FFTF FTF Step V Discussion 1. If you meet a foreigner who comes up close to you to talk, what countries might he be from? How can you show him that you are uncomfortable with that? 2. What are some situations where body

language is the only form of

communication? Why? 3. Discuss ‘Do you agree with the author’s statement that body language is not good or bad? Why or why not?’

Step VIHomework Talk about body languages you usually use.