Learning about Language优质课一等奖

Unit 4

Body language Period 1

Warming up and reading Tang Xueping

Teaching goals

教学目标

a. Enable the students to understand what a certain gesture of the body language

means in a given situation. b. Help the students learn how to express themselves in body language when needed. c. Help the students understand others when body language is being used. Teaching important points 教学重点

a.

Important words and phrases 重点词汇和短语

misunderstand, similar, facial, expression, agreement,, chest, gesture, adult, punish b. Teach the students how to use body language in the most appropriate occasions. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

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

so that little or no misunderstanding may occur. b. Teach the students how to understand body language used in different countries or

cultures as well as in different occasions. Teaching methods 教学方法

a. Individual work and group work. b. Acting out by imitation, mime or with gestures and body movement. Teaching aids 教具准备

A computer, a projector and some pictures. Step 1 Leading in Show some pictures on the screen. Then ask students about the ways of communicating in these pictures. Step 2 Warming up (1)Show some pictures of Gestures, let the students guess the meaning of these gestures in English. (2)Activity: in groups of six persons,trying to find out more body language with the meaning we haven't talked about.

(3)Guess: guess the meaning of some gestures. Step 3 Reading 1.

Pre-reading What is body language? Background knowledge : Body language is one form of nonverbal communication.Communication without usin

g words.Eye-contact or gaze,facial expression, gesture and posture,or the way you stand , are different kinds of body language. Activities: (1)Show some pictures on the screen then let students talk about the body languages used in the pictures.

(2)There is a group of facial expressions, let students match the motion words with the specific facial expressions.

Summary : Just like a verbal language,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.

2.Fast-reading

Read the passage and then try to write down the main idea. The passage is mainly about different body language in different countries,in order to avoid difficulties in today's world of cultural crossroads.We'd better studying international customs. Read the passage and match each paragraph with its main idea. 3.

Careful-reading (1)

Read the passage again, then choose the best answer according to the passage. (2)

Complete the chart with information from the passage.

Step 4 Text Retelling

Yesterday, another student and I, 1.___________ (represent) our university’s student association. 2._______ (go) to the Capital International Airport to meet this year’s international students to Beijing University. 3. ________ half an hour of waiting for 4. _______ flight to arrive, I saw several young people enter the waiting area looking around 5.__________ (curious). The first 6.___________(arrive) was Tony Garcia from Colombia. Tony approached Julia, touched her shoulder and kissed her 7._______ the cheek! She stepped back as if in defence. I guessed there was probably 8.____ misunderstanding. As I get to know more international friends, I’ve learned 9._______ people communicate with spoken language and they also express their feelings using 10.___________ (speak) “language”. In general, studying international customs can certainly help avoid difficulties in today’s world of cultural crossroads. Step 5 Homework 1. Recite the new words in the text.

2. Finish “Learning about language”

1. 2. And 3 on page 28. （Answer for text retelling:1. representing 2. went 3. After 4. their 5. curiously 6.to arrive 7. on

8. a

9. that

10. unspoken）