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Unit4 Using Language 教学设计

I. Teaching Aims: To help students read the passage SHOWING OUR FEELINGS. To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing. II. Teaching Important & Difficult Point Get the students to learn different reading skills for different reading purposes. III. Teaching Methods 1. Warming up to arouse the students’ interest in body language.

2. Fast reading to get general idea of the text. 3. Careful reading to understand the passage better. IV. Teaching Aids: Multi-media and other normal teaching tools. Procedures I. Warming up

Enjoy some pictures

to Lead in -----SHOWING OUR FEELINGS. II. Guided reading 1. Reading ----skimming ,carefully reading

Read the text SHOWING OUR FEELINGS to know the main idea of the passage and the idea of each paragraph. 2. Reading and underlining

Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from SHOWING OUR FEELINGS Show all kinds of feeling, turn one’s back to…, show anger, close one’s hand, shake… at…, a universal facial expression, put…at ease, hide feelings, lose face, nod the head up and down, look away from…, hold one’s arms across one’s chest, protest…from …, turn toward…, roll one’s eyes, show respect for…, use gestures, give a hug to sb., stand close to…, with…open, look directly at…, look sb. in the eye, tell the truth, be wrong about…

3. Doing exercises

Now you are going to do exercises No. 1 and 2 on page 30 following the article.

The importance of body language People can not live without each other, we are social beings. As soon as we are in contact with others we are communicating. For this we can make use of spoken and written language. In these ways we make the content of a message clear to each other. However we can also communicate without words. This kind of communication tells us something about the relationship between people. Often this is more important than getting the content of the message across. The communication about this non spoken communication, which tells us something about the relationship between people, is called Meta-Communication. Communicating about communication! 4. Writing

Turn to page 31. Make a list of three positive body language expressions and three negative body language expressions. Non-verbal communication, or body language

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Refers to messaging without words

In a personal spoken message

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According to Albert Mehrabian, in Psychology Today (1968), of the total message

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7% is conveyed by the words

38% by the vocal tones, and

55% by facial and body expression

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Reading body language is an important skill