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Teaching Plan

Teaching content:

Reading: COMMUNICATION: NO PROBLEM?

Teaching aims：

1.

Students will know different ways of greeting in different cultures and be aware of

the relationship between body language and culture 2. Students will understand and practise new words and some key structures.

3. Students will learn to figure out the main idea and the structure of the passage.

4. Students will be able to practise some reading skills ( predicting,analyzing,summarizing,understanding some sentences by reading between lines.)

Teaching focus：

A.Summarizing the main idea and the structure of the passage.

B.The understanding of some difficult sentences.such as: Not all cultures greet each other the same way, nor are they comfortable in the same way with

touching or distances between people.

These actions are not good or bad , but are simply way in which cultures have developed.

Teaching aids: Multi-media

Teaching procedures：

step1.Warming-up

Purpose:to get the students’ ideas of communication and warm the

class up Q1:What’s the purpose of language? Q2:Is there any other way to communicate our ideas or feelings to others? Q3:What are they trying to tell us? Q4:How are they expressing themselves? Q5:What is Body Language?

One form of communication without using any words，

but through the use of ___________ ,

______________,_________ and________________. It plays a surprisingly important role in our daily communication Q6:When two roads meet, we get a crossroad.THEN when two cultures meet, what do we get? (cultural crossroads) Q7:When you are at a cultural crossroads and you don’t understand each other,how can you communicate?(Body Language)

step2.While reading Task1.

Skimming Purpose: to help students to get general information ,main idea and the structure . 1.Who are the people mentioned in the passage?

2. Where are they from? (Different people represent different cultures) 3.What does the text mainly tell us about? It tells us the differences of “body language”

between__________.

It tells us the ___________of “body language”. Part1 (para1,2and3) His experience of meeting international students . Part 2 (Para4and 5) His understanding of the body language. Task2.

Reading for details

Purpose: to help students to get the background information

To help them to have some information about different ways of greeting

To lead the students to read between the lines to find clues to the differences. Questions for para1 When

yesterday who Another student and I What

Went to meet international students where International airport which word tell us the Ss are new to Beijing? I saw several young people enter the waiting area looking around curiously. 2)

Para 2 to 4

fill in the chart

different cultures,different greeting Country / Area Britain

Japan

Spain, Italy, South American countries

France

Middle East, some Muslim countries

Greeting body language

Q1:Julia put up her hands in defence in order to express ____________

A

she disliked Tony because she was afraid to see him.

B

she was angry and protected herself .

C

she couldn’t accept this way of greeting.

3) .para3 Q1:How did Ahmed Aziz greet “I ”

and

how did I react? Q2. Is the author of this passage a man or a woman? How do you know? Q3. How did Tony and Darlene greet each other?

Q4.Was there any cultural misunderstanding between Tony and Darlene?

4). para4 and Para 5

Purpose: To lead students to think about the function of unspoken languages in communication What has the author learned as he gets to know more international friends? _____ all cultures greet each other the same way, nor are they comfortable in the same way with ____or _______ between people.

People express their feelings using unspoken “language”

through ________, ______ or________.

What is the author’s understanding of different body languages of greeting? These actions are _________, but are simply ____ in which cultures have developed.

Cultural customs for body language are _______—not all members of a culture ___________________ Step 3

Problem-solving: ways out

Purpose: to help Ss to think about possible solutions to the problems in communication.

( Tips):

1.____________________________ can certainly help 2. We should r______and a______different customs. 3._________________________________入乡随俗。

Step 4

Learning for practice

Purpose: to apply what the students have learnt from the text by fulfilling tasks

1.I: Performance: (Body language)

Let’s learn sth by doing. 1. Greeting

A Chinese and

an American greet each other a

Japanese and an Egyptian, greet each other 2. the teacher share a story of cultural differences and the Sstry to fill in the blanks with new words.

Last term, a group of foreign students visited Taizhou NO.1 middle school. The school g_______ the c_____好奇foreigners warmly. We were one of the host families, r______ their school. The next morning

,the i_______ student refused to eat beef dumplings after trying one ,saying that he ate light breakfast. After talking with his teacher, we knew

he took beef as pork and that as a Jewish ,they don't eat pork for religious reason. Obviously that's a cultural m________. so how can we avoid difficulties on the cultural c________? Step5 Homework Please write a summary of this passage in no more than 80 words .