Learning about Language第二课时教学实录

Body Language 教学设计

湖北省竹山县第一中学

潘翠

Analysis of the teaching material：

Body Language is Module 3 in Senior English 4, which was published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. As a piece of knowledge belonging to culture, it introduces some ways of greeting in different parts of the world, from which we can experience various customs and learn that When in Rome, do as Romans do. In this PPT, I just show something about the second period titled with Reading and Vocabulary.

Analysis of the students：

The students are about seventeen, one period when they are full of energy and have a strong desire to learn about the diverse world. Arousing their curiosity is easy while connecting their life and the knowledge is a little harder. So, to find a bridge between the two is what I need to do.

Teaching aims：

1. Make the students understand the whole text and get as much information as possible. 2. Make the students learn about different cultures. 3. Make it clear to the students that respecting each others’ custom is necessary when communicating with foreigners. Difficult points：

1. how to understand the different customs 2. how to summarize the body language in our daily life Teaching aid：

blackboard, chalk, multimedia

Teaching procedure：

Step one: pre-reading At the beginning, I set a piece of video taken from an animation named Shaun the Sheep, which is a cartoon without words. This part lasts about 40 seconds. After watching, I will ask the students to show out the story coming up in their mind.

(The video is set to arouse the students’

interest in the topic. Of course, they will make similar descriptions about the video for even though there are no words, we can get the information clearly for the characters’ body language.) Step two: reading 1.

ask the students to describe the pictures in before the text (The picture are common gestures which almost all the students can make out the meanings easily. This activity is to improve their speaking ability.) 2.

ask the students listen to the record while reading the material in the book with the questions in mind Questions

Which of the followings is the best title? How many parts can you divide the passage into and what about the general ideas?

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(Reading with questions is of great importance and the questions given by the book are an outstanding help for my teaching.) 3.

analyze the text

(With the information from the text we can point out what the picture in the ppt refers to. This part is designed to improve the students’ analyzing ability. ) Step three: post-reading 1. True or false.

(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.

2. Fill in the blanks Yesterday, another student and I, ___________ (represent) our university's student association, went to the Capital International Airport ___________(to meet) this year’s international students to Beijing University. After half an hour of waiting for their flight to arrive,

I saw several young people enter the waiting area looking around _______(curious). The first ________(arrive) was Tony Garcia from Colombia, __________(follow) by Julia from Britain. Tony approached Julia, touched her shoulder and kissed her on the cheek! She _____(step) back as if in defence. I guessed there was _______ (probable) a misunderstanding. With more students _______(arrive),

I saw more different ways to greet each other.

As I get to know more international friends, I learned that people communicate with spoken language and they also express their feelings using ________(speak) “language”. _______ general, studying international customs can certainly help avoid difficulties in today’s world of cultural crossroads.

(Through the two exercises, the students can consolidate what they have learned from the text.) Step four: activities Moral lesson: Respecting those with different customs and try to be a mind reader is important.

step five: homework ask the students to write a composition to apply what they learnt to the real life.

(Body language may vary from one culture to another, so I have students discuss how to give some advice to the foreign visitors who come to China for the first time.)

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