Learning about Language名师教学设计

高一英语人教新课标必修4 Module4

Unit4 Warming up &Reading教学设计

I. Teaching Aims: 1. Train the students’ reading ability.

2. Enable the students to realize the importance of body language and understand different body language in different cultures. 3. Stimulate the students’ interest and love for learning body language as well as to learn verbal language. II. Teaching Important & Difficult Point Get the students to learn different reading skills for different reading purposes. III. Teaching Methods 1. Warming up to arouse the students’ interest in body language.

2. Fast reading to get general idea of the text. 3. Careful reading to understand the passage better. IV. Teaching Aids: Multi-media and other normal teaching tools.

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Lead-in Use a song to lead in the topic. Step 2 Warming Up

1. Play a guess game: ask some students to act out the meanings of some pictures, and have the rest students guess the meaning from the body language. 2. Play another guess game: show some pictures of gestures and make the students speak out the meaning that each picture stands for.

Step 3 Pre-reading

Do people all over the world act the same? Step 4 Reading

1.

Fast reading 1)1.

How many international students are mentioned in the passage?

2. Where is Darlence Coulon from?

2)Ask students to read the text quickly to divide the passage into four parts and then match the main idea of each part with lines. Part 1 (

)

Different people have different body language.

Part 2 (

)

Summary of body language. Part 3 (

)

Meet the visitors at the airport. Part 4 (

)

People from different countries express greetings in different ways. 2.

Detailed Reading Para. 1 – I went to the airport to meet the international students.

I

stood for

our school organization to meet the international students →

The plane they took arrived →

they looked around with interest →

I watched them and then went to say hello to them →

took them to places where they live in school first →took them to places where they eat Para. 2-3 – I saw five scenes caused by differences in body language.

Scene 1

__Tony Garcia _____________

vs.

__Julia Smith____________

Line 8 – 15 How did they greet each other?Line 8 – 15

Name

Description

Body language

Tony Garcia

Julia Smith

A man from Columbia A woman from England He

got closer to

Julia, touched her shoulder and kissed her on the face below eyes. She stepped back appearing surprised and put up her hands, as if she wanted to protect herself.

reasons: They didn’t understand each other.

Para. 2-3 – I saw five scenes caused by differences in body language.

Scene 2

__Akira Nagata _____________

vs.

__George Cook____________

Line 15 – 18 How did they greet each other?Line 15 – 18 Name Description Body language A man from Japan. He __bowed

Akira Nagata A man from Canada.

He _reached_ his hand __out. George Cook

Result: Akira’s nose _touched George’s moving hand__.

Para. 2-3 – I saw five scenes caused by differences in body language.

Scene 3

Ahmed Aziz ____ vs.

_the author_____________ Scene 4

Darlene Coulon__ vs.

__Tony Garcia__________ Scene 5

_Ahmed Aziz___

vs.

_other girls____________ Line 19 – 24 How did they greet each other?Line 19 – 24 Name

Description

Body language

Ahmed Aziz

Darlene Coulon

A man from Jordan.

A woman from France.

He __came closer___ to ask a question and shook my hand. He simply _nodded at___ girls and usually not touch women. She _shook___ hands with and then _kissed___ each other twice on each cheek.

Para. 4 – People from other countries have different body language.

Ways to _greet_______ People in the country/area

each other

Do not stand very close to People from English-speaking countries

others or touch strangers as soon as they meet.

Approach others closely and People from Spain, Italy or South American are more likely to touch countries

them. prefer to bow Japanese

Shake hands Most people around the world

3.

True or False: 1.English people often stand close to others or touch strangers as soon as they meet.(

) 2. Most people around the world now greet each other by kissing.(

) 3. Japanese will bow to others as greeting.(

) 4. Some body languages in some countries are good while some countries’ body languages are bad.(

) 5. People from Jordan will move very close to you as you introduce yourself to them.(

) 4.

Post-reading:

Summary of the passage Yesterday, another students and I,representing_our university’ s students association, went to the Capital International Airport to meet__this year’s international students. The first person to arrive_was Tony Garcia from Colombia. Tony _approached_

Julia, touched her shoulder and kissed her on the _cheek_.Then Akira Nagata from Japan_bowed_so his nose touched George’s_moving__hand. Men from Middle Eastern and other Muslim countries will often stand quite _close

to other men to talk but will usually not_touch__women . As I get to know more international friends ,I learn more about this_cultural_“body language ”.In_general_,

studying international_customs__can certainly help avoid difficulties in today’s world of cultural __crossroads__. 5.

Extensive reading

Ask students to read the passage again and finish the chart in English Weekly. Step 5 Summary

Step 6 Homework ▪ Read the passage again to get a better understanding and find out some useful words and expressions. ▪ Collect some information about body language in different cultures. Step 7 Record after teaching: