Learning about Language教学设计第二课时

Teaching plan of Module 4 Unit 4 Body language

By Huang Zemiao 

Teaching aims:

1) Ability aims:

a. Develop students’ reading ability. Through fast reading and filling the writing outline, students can find the main idea and the structure of the text. b. Enable the students to express with the target language meanings given in body language.

c. Train students speaking skill. 2) Emotional aims:

a．Enable the students to realize the importance of body language.

b．Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning．

c.

Arouse the students’ interest in daily body language. 

Important points: 1) How body language shows the same or different feelings among people from different cultures. 2) Enable the students to realize the importance of body language. 3) Encourage students to perform themselves by using body language and spoken language. 

Students’ potential difficulty: 1)

Students may have difficulties in expressing feeling with spoken language. 2)

Students may be shy to act in front of the class. 

Teaching and learning methods: 1)

Group discussion 2)

Group work and co-operation. 3)

Acting out by imitation, mime or with gestures and body movement. 

Teaching aids: 1) PowerPoint.

2) Listening clip. 

Teaching procedures: 

Step 1: Lead-in (2’) The students are required to guess the meaning of the pictures. Purpose: To review the body language that we use in our daily life to express our feelings or ideas.

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Step 2: Writing outline (4’) Show the writing outline in Page 30 of the text and then ask the students to have a fast reading of the text and finish the writing outline. Purpose: To get the students to have a clear idea of the text structure. Main idea: (Para 1&7) Many gestures and actions are universal. Points: 1 (Para 2) Showing happiness

2 (Para 3) Showing unhappiness and anger

3 (Para 4) Showing agreement or disagreement.

4 (Para 5) Showing boredom.

5 (Para 6) Showing respect. 

Step 3: Careful reading(5’) Task1. Read carefully to find out some details of each supporting points.

Task2. Try to act the feeling mentioned in the text. One or two students are encouraged to act in the platform and the others are required to guess what he or she is acting.

Purpose: Using the writing outline, guide the students find out the details of each supporting points. In this part, students also have a chance to show themselves by acting on the platform. 

Step 4: Post-reading Task 3. Group discussion ( 3’)

Questions:What are some jobs in which using body language is extremely important? ( A possible answer: For example, teachers, anyone who is being interviewed, anyone who is giving orders or directions and anyone who is working in diplomatic jobs and in some government jobs.) Purpose: To practice students’ ability of thinking and talking. 

Step 5: Listening and speaking (9’)

Task1. Guess the correct order of the story by observing the pictures on Page 31. Task2. Listen to the tape and check the order.

Correct order: 2

1

3

4

6

5

Task3. Listen again and try to fill in the blank to retell the story. Lin Pu brought a car from his brother-in-law. He was driving nervously in the city for the first time. Unluckily, he hit a cyclist. They had a quarrel. The policeman thought Lin Pu need to pay a fine for breaking traffic rule.

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Step 6: Act it out without speaking (Group work, 5’) Before acting, the teacher will use the pictures to guide the students to use some body language to express the characters’ feeling.

Purpose: By discussing, imagining and acting, the students are supposed to have a better understanding of the story and the power of body language which not only can express feelings but also can tell a story. 

Step 7: Act it out with speaking (Group work, 6’) The students are required to act the story again by using body language and spoken language. Purpose: By comparing the two performance, the students can have a better idea of the difference between body language and spoken language and the charm and power of them both. Also, in this part, the students have a chance to practise their speaking ability. 

Step 8: Homework (2’) 1)

Read the reading passage (P30) again and underline the language points. 2)

Review the new words of unit 4