Learning about Language优秀教案板书设计

Teaching goals

a. Enable the students to understand what a certain gesture of the body language means in a given situation. b. Enable the students to act out some meanings, requirements, requests or situations given in the target language. c. Enable the students to express with the target language the meanings given in body language. Teaching methods

a. Individual work, pair work and group work. b. Acting out by imitation, mime or with gestures and body movement. Teaching aids

A computer, a projector and some pictures. Teaching procedures & ways

I. Warming up

Warming up by acting Look at the list of interpretation on the right side of the chart. Perform the action or the nonverbal behaviour on the left side.

Warming up by defining—What is body language? II. Pre-reading 1.

Looking and saying

Look at the man in the picture below. What does he say to you by his body language? III. Reading

Step 1. Fast reading 1. Go through the passage quickly and find out the main idea of each paragraph. · Match the main idea of each para. with lines.

(Para.1)

A. Other examples of different greeting body language.

(Para.2)

B. Different people have different body language.

(Para.3)

C. Summary of body language.

(Para.4)

D. Meet the visitors at the airport.

(Para.5)

E. Examples of different greeting body language.

设计说明：通过这个题目的练习，让学生掌握速读，先对文章段落大意有一个了解。然后再去归纳中心思想。

2. Try to write down the main idea of the text. The text is mainly about different _____________ in different countries. In order to avoid difficulties in today’s world of cultural crossroads, we should

Step2 careful reading Para 1

When:

__________________________ Who:

______________________________ ______________________________________ Where:

_______________________________ What to do:

____________________________

Para2

Find out the two cultural mistakes in Para2

Para3

1. How do men from Muslim countries greet others ? 2. Is the author male or female? How do you know? Para4

Fill in the table according to Para4

People in the Ways to greet each other country/area

English people People Italy from and Spain, South American countries Japanese

Most people around the world

Para5

True or false?

1.

Body language in some countries is

good

while some in others is bad. 2.

All members of a culture behave in the same way. 3.

Learning English well can certainly help avoid

difficulties in today’s world of cultural crossroads.

Step3

language points

Step4 Fill in the blanks

The first person to arrive was Tony Garcia from Columbia, closely _________ by Julia Smith from Britain. When they were introduced to each other, Tony

approached Julia, _______ her shoulder and

_______ her on the cheek . Julia stepped back appearing surprised. Akira

Nagata from Japan came in smiling at the same time with George Cook from Canada. As they were introduced, George _______ his hand out to the Japanese who ______ . His nose touched George’s moving hand, and they both _________.

These are examples of learned or cultural “body language”. Not all cultures ________ each other the same way, nor are they comfortable touching strangers or being too close or too far away. In the same way that people ____________ with spoken language, they also __________ their feelings using unspoken “language” through keeping physical distance, actions or _________.