Learning about Language第二课时教学实录

Unit4 Body Language Reading教案

Ⅰ. Analysis of teaching material. 教学内容分析

本节课的内容是新课标高中英语人教版必修四第四单元Body Language第一课时reading部分。本课时reading是一篇介绍性（记叙文）体裁的文章，主要介绍了各种文化背景下的“体态语”的异同，为学生提供了来自不同国度、不同语言文化背景的“体态语”及其在交际中的异同和影响的具体例证。学生也可以结合自己在语言交际中所遇到的实际例子来进一步理解“交际，毫无问题可言吗？”这一主题。

Ⅱ.Teaching Goals（教学目标）

Knowledge and ability aims a. At the end of the class, the students can understand this passage. b. Help the students understand different body movements have different meanings c. Train the students reading abilities-----skimming and scanning. Emotional aims d. Enable the students to realize the importance of

body language. Ⅲ. Teaching important points and difficult points (教学重难点) a. Students can understand this passage. b. Students master two reading skills-----skimming and scanning. c. Students master the meanings of body language which used in different countries or cultures mentioned in this passage. Ⅳ. Teaching Time（教学时间）: 40 minutes V. Teaching aids: CAI VI. Teaching procedures (教学过程)

Step 1 warming up Introduce something about communication and body language to students. 1.

Ways of communication:

Spoken language

Written language

Body language 2. Body language is very important for some people. Doyou know how they communicate with people using body language?

Ways of body languange: gesture, eye contact, posture, facial expression 3.Guess the meanings of some body languange, including some gestures, posture and facial expression.

4.Conclusion: What is body language? How much do you know about it?

Answer:

Body Language is a form of non-verbal communication.

It is the movements or positions of our body showing other people what we are thinking or feeling.

Such as eye contact, facial expression, gesture, and posture. 5. Thinking: Are body languages the same in different countries /cultures all over the world ?

Y or N ? Step 2 Reading Task 1. Skimming 1. What is the main idea of the text?

A. There are different customs in different countries.

B. Foreigners should follow the customs of the country where they are visiting.

C. People use body language to send messages and people from different countries have different customs.

D. The importance of knowing customs.

2. Skim the passage and divide it into four parts, and match the main idea of each part.

Part 1 para.1

Summary of body language.

Part 2 para.2-3

Different people have different body languages.

Part 3 para.4

You are sent to the Capital Airport to meet international students.

Part 4 para.5

Examples of

cultural “body language”.

Task 2:Detailed reading –read the passage part by part and answer some questions. Part 1:paragraph 1

When:

__________________________ Who:

______________________________ Where:

_______________________________ What to do:

____________________________ _______________________________________

Part 2: find out the two cultural mistakes in paragraph 2

The first mistake: Tony Garcia ---- Julia Smith Tony: He approached Julia, _____ ____ _____ and _____ her on the ____. Julia : She _____ ______ and put up her hands, as if ___ ______. The second mistake: George Cook ---- Akira Nagata George: He _____ his hand ____ to the Japanese student. Akira:

He ______ so his nose ______ George’s ______ _______. Part 3: 1.How do men from Muslim countries greet others ? 2. Is the author male or female? How do you know? 3. How did Tony and Darlene greet each other?

Part 4: fill in the blanks according para.4 People in the country/area Ways to greet each other English people Do not stand ______ to others or touch ______when they meet People from Spain, Italy and South ________ others closely and are American countries more likely to _____

Japanese Bow

Most people around the world Shake hands

Part 5:

T or F (read para.5)

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. Task 3: Summary Yesterday I __________ our student association to go to

CIA to _______international students. The first one to _____is Mr. Garcia from Columbia, closely ________by Julia Smith from Britain.

I introduced them to each other ,and I was _______to see them greet each other. Just then, a visitor from Japan comes in ______, together with Gorge Cook from Canada. When Gorge ______his hand out to him, it happens that Mr Cook’s hand _______the Japanese’s nose as he ______. So you see,

people from ________cultures may not greet others in the same way. Now ,most people around the world _______hands when they meet while the ________ prefer to bow. In a word, body languages are not ____or ____, which are widely used in _______________ in today’s world .

Task 4:discussion--- What can we learn from the passage? Suggested answer: Different countries have different cultures and body languages , so when people greet each other, they will have different body languages. If people don’t know the cultural differences well, people may have difficulties in communicating with others throughout the world.