Learning about Language教学设计第一课时

Unit 4 Body language Warming up and reading

Teaching Aims and Demands

教学目标与要求

Teaching key point 教学的重点

Get students to read the passage and learn about cultural differences and intercultural communication.

Improve the students’ reading ability by

skimming-reading and scanning-reading. Teaching difficult point教学的难点

1. To guide the students to understand the passage and know about cultural differences and intercultural communication.

2. Get students to use different reading skills for different reading purposes. Teaching aims 教学目标

Knowledge and ability aims 1.Get students to learn some useful words and expressions in this part 2.Get students to read the passage and learn about cultural differences and intercultural communication. 3.Enable students to develop their reading ability and try to use some reading strategies such as guessing , key sentences, skimming, scanning and so on. Emotional aims

1.Enable students to recognize different body language and try to use them correctly. 2.Develop students’ sense of cooperative. Teaching Methods 1.

Task-based teaching and learning 2.

Cooperative learning 3.

Discussion Teaching Aids The multimedia and other normal teaching tools Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Leading in and warming up 1.

If a person can not speak, how you can communicate with him or her. 2.

can you do some gestures? 3.

Can you do some movements with your partners to communicate? Step 2 Pre-reading

Look the title and pictures of this reading passage, predict the main idea of the text, Step 3 Reading

Skimming

Read the text quickly and answer two questions. 1. what did the author do yesterday? 2. Did any students have the same greeting customs?

Then read this text quickly again , finish the following exercise.

Character(person) You Mr Garcia Julia Smith Mr Cook Akira Nagata Ahmed Aziz Madame Coulon Suggest answers:

China

Columbia

Britain

Canada

Japan

Jordan

France Scanning 1.

Give students 5min to read this text carefully again, and finish the following exercise.( according to 1-2-3para)

Country

Character(person) I ( author) Country Actions China I___ for a minute _____them and then went to ____them. When introducing myself to Ahmed Aziz, I____ ____ a bit when he is very close. Mr Garcia Columbia Tony___ Julia, ______her shoulder and ______her on the ____. Julia.Smith _____back appearing_______ and___ ____her hands, as if in ________. Julia Smith Britain Mr Cook Canada George____ ______ _____ _____to Akira Nagata. Akira Nagata Ahmed Aziz Japan Jordan Akira _____ to Mr. Cook Ahmed____ very___ to me when introduced, he____ ______

to ask questions, but he _______ at the girls. Darlene Coulon France

Darlene and Tony ______ each other twice on the cheek.

Suggest answers 1). Stood

watching

greet

moved

back 2). approached

touched

kissed

cheek 3). Stepped

surprised

put

up

defence 4). Reached

his

hand

out 5). Bowed

6). Moved

close

came

closer

nodded 7). Shook hands and kissed 2.Ask students to read Paragraphs 4-5 and finish the following true or false exercises 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 language in some countries are good while some countries’ body languages are bad. Suggested answers

1. F

2. F 3. T 4.T 5. F Step4课堂检测

连线

Part1( para1)

A. It mainly talks about the examples cultural “body language”

Part2.(para2-3)

B.

It tells us that different peoples have different body language.

Part3(para4)

C.

It is the summary of body language.

Part4( Para5)

D.

The main idea is that you are sent to Capital International Airport to meet students.

Step5

Summary

Today we have learned a text about body language, It plays an important role in daily communication, so it is very important to understand and use it correctly. Step6

Homework 1. Finish off page 27 exercises 2. Preview the next lesson( Important language points)