Learning about Language第一课时导学案

Unit 4 Body language Reading

通城一中

王一珍

Teaching Aims and Demands

Knowledge and ability aims 1. Get students to know what body language is. 2. Get students to read the passage and learn about cultural differences and intercultural communication. 3. Enable students to develop their reading ability and try to use some reading strategies such as guessing , key sentences, skimming, scanning and so on. Emotional aims 1. Enable students to recognize the importance of body language and try to use them correctly. 2. Develop students’ sense of cooperation. Teaching key points

Get students to read the passage and learn about cultural differences and intercultural communication.

Improve the students’ reading ability by skimming and scanning.

Teaching difficult point

1. To guide the students to understand the passage and know about cultural differences and intercultural communication.

2. Get students to be actively involved in the class.

Teaching Methods 1.

Task-based teaching and learning 2.

Cooperative learning 3.

Discussion Teaching Aids The multimedia and other normal teaching tools Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Leading in and warming up 1.

How do you communicate in our daily life? 2.

Guess the meanings of some gestures. 3.

When several students from different countries meet, what will happen? Step 2 Fast reading

Read the text quickly and answer two questions. 1. Find out the topic sentence or key words of each paragraph 2. Underline the names of the international students and their nationalities.

Step 3 Careful Reading

1. Greeting 1: Tony Garcia (Columbia, South America) met Julia Smith (Britain, Europe) Greeting 2: George Cook (Canada, North America) met Akira Nagata (Japan, East Asia)

Greeting 3: The writer (?) met Ahmed Aziz (Jordan, West Asia) Greeting 4: Darlene Coulon (France, West Europe) met Tony Garcia (Columbia, South America ) 2. Act the situations out according to their body language. 3. Greetings in other countries. Step 4 Summary 1. Body language ______________ from culture to ________. Not all cultures _____ each other the ____way,

are they comfortable in the same way with touching or distance between people. Therefore, we should try to understand and__________ each other’s culture in order to make good _____________. Answers: is different from; culture; greet; same; nor; respect; communication 2. Difficult sentence Not all cultures greet each other the same way, nor are they comfortable in the same way with touching or distance between people.

not…nor… : not…and not 既不

---也不--- He does not like watching TV nor playing computer games. He likes reading. nor 也不(inversion 倒装）

He was not at school yesterday, nor was I. Step 5 Discussion

Do you think learning body language is important?

Why? Or why not? Example: I think learning body language is important.

To begin with…

In addition…

Last but not least…

Summary of the teacher and suggestions. Human communication, language is just the top level. What you try to say or not to say is in the space between words and looks. In today’s word of cultural crossroads, body language is part of culture. It plays an important role in daily communication. So, it is very important to understand and use it correctly. And for a foreign language learner, it is as necessary to learn the body language as to learn the verbal language. Suggestions Study international customs

When in Rome, do as Romans do. Smiling is a powerful way.

Love is the magic key.

Step6 Homework 1. Surf the Internet and find out more about body language. 2. Write a short passage about your understanding of body Language.