Learning about Language第一课时教学实录

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Warming up and Reading Teaching Aims To help students develop their reading ability. To help students learn about body language. Teaching Procedures 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. Examples of body language NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR Brisk, erect walk Standing with hands on hips Sitting with legs crossed, foot kicking slightly Sitting, legs apart Arms crossed on chest Walking with hands in pockets, shoulders hunched Hand to cheek Touching, slightly rubbing nose Rubbing the eye INTERPRETATION Confidence Readiness, aggression Boredom Open, relaxed Defensiveness Dejection Evaluation, thinking Rejection, doubt, lying Doubt, disbelief - 1 -

Hands clasped behind back Locked ankles Head resting in hand, eyes downcast Rubbing hands Sitting with hands clasped behind head, legs crossed Open palm Pinching bridge of nose, eyes closed Tapping or drumming fingers Steepling fingers Patting/fondling hair Tilted head Stroking chin Looking down, face turned away Biting nails Pulling or tugging at ear

Anger, frustration, apprehension Apprehension Boredom Anticipation Confidence, superiority Sincerity, openness, innocence Negative evaluation Impatience Authoritative Lack of self-confidence; insecurity Interest Trying to make a decision Disbelief Insecurity, nervousness Indecision Warming up by defining — What is body language? The gestures, poses, movements, and expressions that a person uses to communicate.

●The outward signs of a person which indicates their inner thoughts or attitude. For example, a bowed head indicates submission, a hand over the mouth indicates the person doesn't want to talk or feels their words aren't worth listening to. Scratching - 2 -

indicates nervousness. A person passing another on the street might bow their head as a subconscious sign of submission. Conscious or unconscious bodily movements and gestures that communicate to others a person's attitudes and feelings. This may also include dress, facial features, skin colour or other personal means of communication without words.

communication via the movements or attitudes of the body

Body language is a broad term for several forms of communication using body movements or gestures, instead of, or as a complement to, sounds, verbal language, or other forms of communication. In turn, it is one category of paralanguage, which describes all forms of human communication that are not language.

II. Pre-reading Looking and saying Look at the man in the picture below. What does he say to you by his body language?

Basically, how the ...... do I know? Or, I don’t know nothing! The shoulders are hunched and the hands are open signifying a big question mark.

Talking and sharing Body language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all! According to experts, our non-verbal language communicates about 50% of what we really mean (voice tonality contributes 38%) while words themselves contribute a mere 7%. Our bodies send out messages constantly and often we don't recognize that we're - 3 -

communicating a lot more than we realize. Our understanding and use of non-verbal cues in facial expression are familiar to us nearly from birth III. Reading Reading aloud to the recording Now please listen and read aloud to the recording of the text COMMUNICATION: NO PROBLEM?. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.

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 COMMUNICATION: NO PROBLEM? send… to do sth., meet … at the airport, meet with…, at a hotel, represent the Chinese government, look around, in a curious way, be followed by…, introduce…to…, kiss… on the cheek, step back, appear surprised, take a few steps away from…, coming in, at the same time, reach one’s hand out to …, touch sb’s hand, greet each other, communicate with spoken language, express one’s feelings, use unspoken language, keep physical distance, stand close to…, approach… closely, shake hands, - 4 -

move close to…, move back a bit, nod at …, stand close to…, behave the same way, avoid difficulty

Read to identify the topic sentence of each paragraph Next you are to skim the text to identify the topic sentence of each paragraph. Reading and transferring information Read the text again to complete the table. Where is he/ she from? What does he/ she do when he/ she meet someone at the airport for the first time? Name Tony Garcia Description

Man from Colombia

Julia Smith Woman from Britain Akira Nagata Man from Japan Bowing Shaking hands Shaking hands nodding Darlene Coulon Woman from France Shake hands and kiss twice on each cheek

Reading and understanding difficult sentences As you have read the text times, you can surely tell which sentences are difficult to understand. Now put your questions concerning the difficult points to me the teacher.

Reading and translating Now it’s time to translate the text into Chinese, sentence by sentence. Who will be the first to do it? IV. Closing down Closing down by doing exercises People she knows everyone everyone To men and women No touching Everyone

Body language

Kiss on the cheek To whom everyone George Cook

Man from Canada

Ahmed Aziz

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To end the lesson you are to do the comprehending exercises on page 27. Closing down by checking Check some of the following basic non-verbal cues and you'll recognize that you already speak and translate much of the language.

“I’m surprised!”“I’m shocked!”“I’m sad!”

Learning about Language (The ~ing form as the Attribute & Adverbial) Teaching Aims To help students learn about the ~ing form as the Attribute & Adverbial. To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions. To help students discover and learn to use some useful structures. Teaching Procedures

I. Warming up Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions Turn to page 28 and do exercises No. 1, 2 and 3 first. Check your answers against your classmates’.

II. Learning about grammar Reading and thinking Turn to page 26 and read with me the text of COMMUNICATION: NO PROBLEM? As you read along, pay attention to the uses of the ~ing form as the Attribute & Adverbial. (They are visitors coming from several countries. 作定语

Four people enter looking around in a curious way. 作状语

This is an exciting experience for you. 作定语

You stand watching and listening. 作状语；……)

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Doing exercises No. 1 and 2 on page 29 III. Ready used materials for the ~ing form as the Attribute & Adverbial ... When we use a verb in -ing form more like a verb or an adjective, it is usually a present participle:. Anthony is fishing. I have a boring teacher. In this lesson, we will look at the use of verbs in the ~ing form ... The ~ing form 作定语

现在分词可以单独作定语，也可以构成合成词作定语，但在更多的情况下是分词短语作定语，包括限定性和非限定性（用逗号与其他部分分开），在意义上相当于一个定语从句。现在分词作定语通常带有主动意义和未完成意义。例如：

The man following was obviously in a hurry。（现在分词单独作定语）

They acted just like a conquering army。（现在分词单独作定语）

Do you know the man standing over there by the motor car?（分词短语作限定性定语。）

Last night, we caught a thief stealing John's bike.（分词短语作限定性定语）

The name Nebraske comes from the Indian word “ebrathka”. meaning flat water.（分词短语作非限定性定语）

The ~ing form 作状语

现在分词作状语表示主语在进行一动作的同时所进行的另一动作，它对谓语动词起修饰或陪衬的作用。这时要注意现在分词与其逻辑主语在时态和意义上的统一。例如：

Rushing out of the room, he has knocked down by a car.（作时间状语）

=When he rushed out of the room, he was knocked down by a car. Working harder, you will pass the entrance exam.（作条件状语）

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=If you work harder, you will pass the entrance exam. She sat at a window and read a book.（作伴随状语）

=She sat at a window and read a book. Having won the championship, he was awarded a million dollars.（作原因状语）

=Because he had won the championship, he was awarded a million dollars. Even if taking a taxi, I will still be late for the meeting.（作让步状语）

=Even if I take a taxi, I will still be late for the meeting. The road is under construction, thus causing the delay.（作结果状语）

=The road is under construction, and thus caused the delay. 注意，当现在分词作让步状语时，一般放在句首，常常由although, though, even if ,unless等连词引入；作结果状语时，一般放在句末，前面可so, thus, hence。

IV. Closing down by doing a quiz To end the period you are going to take a quiz on ~ing words.

~ING WORDS

Highlight all the words ending in '-ing'.

Make lists of all the different categories of '-ing' words; that is, their different functions in the sentence.

Examples of some of the different categories He's swimming.

He's wearing a swimming suit.

He likes swimming.

Swimming is pleasant. Rewrite each sentence without using the '-ing' form.

Is there a change in meaning? What is it?

Find sentences in the text which can be rewritten using an -ing form.

Is there any change in meaning? What is it?

IV. Homework

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Finish exercises in workbook on page 64. Using Language

Teaching Aims

To help students read the passage SHOWING OUR FEELINGS. To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing. Teaching Procedures

I. Warming up Read aloud to warm up: Let’s warm up by reading aloud to the recording of the text SHOWING OUR FEELINGS. II. Guided reading Reading and translating Read the text SHOWING OUR FEELINGS and translate it into Chinese paragraph by paragraph. He Jing. You are to do paragraph 1, please. ….

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, - 9 -

give a hug to sb., stand close to…, with…open, look directly at…, look sb. in the eye, tell the truth, be wrong about…

Doing exercises Now you are going to do exercises 1 and 2 on pages 30-31 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! 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

Refers to messaging without words

In a personal spoken message

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

7% is conveyed by the words

38% by the vocal tones, and

55% by facial and body expression

Reading body language is an important skill

Listening, writing Turn to page 31 and do the listening and writing exercises No. 1 and 2.

Positive gesture clusters - 1 - 10 -

●Acceptance

Hand to chest

Open arms and hands

Touching gestures

Moving closer, one to another

Preening

Sitting on one leg (for female)

Positive gesture clusters - 2 ●Confidence

Steepling (fingers touching like a church steeple)

Hands behind back, authority position

Back stiffened

Hands in coat pockets with thumbs out

Hands on lapels of coat

●Expectancy

Rubbing palms

Jingling money openly

Crossed fingers

Moving closer Positive gesture clusters - 3 ●Cooperation, readiness, openness

Open hands

Hands on hips

Hands on mid-thigh while seated

Sitting on edge of chair

Arms spread, gripping edge of table or desk

Moving closer

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Sprinter's position

Hand-to-face gestures Positive gesture clusters - 4 ●Evaluation

Hand-to-face gestures

Head tilted

Stroking chin

Peering over glasses

Taking glasses off, and cleaning

Putting eye glass ear piece in mouth

Pipe smoker gestures

Getting up from table and walking around

Putting hand to bridge of nose Positive gesture clusters - 5 ●Reassurance

Touching

Pinching flesh

Chewing pen or pencil

Rubbing over thumb

Touching back of chair on entering room

Biting finger nails

Hands in pockets Positive gesture clusters - 6 ●Self-control

Holding arm behind back

Gripping wrist

Locked ankles

Clenched hands

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Speaking and writing

Discuss Lin Pei’s behaviour with your partner. Then write some advice for Lin Pei.

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