Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending第二课时教案

Unit4. Body language Reading

Communication: No problem?

儋州市第二中学

李梅

Ⅰ. Learning objectives:

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to: 1. use the vocabulary to explain what body language is. 2. understand different cultures have different body languages. 3. tell the importance of body language in communication. 4. strengthen the awareness of cultural equality by discussing.

Ⅱ. Teaching important points:

1. Enable students to understand different cultures have different body languages in communication.

2. Improve students’ scanning and skimming skills. Ⅲ.

Teaching difficult points:

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How to make students understand the importance of body language in communication.

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How to make students understand the title Comunication: No problem?

Ⅳ. Teaching methodology: 1. Task-based language teaching

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2. Communicative approach

Ⅴ. Teaching procedure:

Step 1.

Greeting

Step2. Lead-in

1. Play a song if you are happy and ask students to sing along with and act out the three kinds of body language. (clap hands, stamp feet and wink eye) 2. Guessing game:

The teacher shows pictures of body language and asks students to guess their meanings.

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Definition: What is body language?

(Body language is one form of nonverbal communication without using words. Eye contact, facial expression, gesture, and posture, or the way you stand, are different kinds of body language.) Step3. Pre-reading 1. Show several pictures of body language for greeting.

2. Look at the title Communication: No problem? and predict what the topic will be.

Step4. While-reading

1. Fast reading

Task1:

What does the text mainly talk about？

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A. Two university students meet the international students in the airport.

B. Men and women use different body languages in foreign countries.

C. Different cultures have different body languages.

D. There are different kinds of cultures in the world. 2. Careful reading Task2. Read the text carefully and then complete the chart with information from the text. And show it by self- introduction. Name

Tony Garcia

George Cook

Country

Body language

Japan

Jordan

no touching

shake hands kiss twice on each cheek.

You can use the following structure to introduce.

My name is____. I come from____. We usually _______when we greet others.

Task3. Read the text carefully again and then find out the mistakes they make.

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The first mistake Tony Garcia is from Colombia. Julia Smith is from Britain. Tony Garcia approaches Ms Smith by______ _______ ______

and _____ her on the_____.

Julia Smith_____ _____appearing _______ and _____ ______ her hands. The second mistake

Akira Nagata is from Japan. George Cook is from Canada. George Cook reached ______ _______ ________ to the Japanese.

Akira Nagata______to Mr. Cook and his nose_____Mr.Cook’s ______

______.

3. Question:

Communication: No problem?

Step5. Post- reading DISCUSSION: Show several pictures of American, Korean, Russian, Thai and people in Dubai. And then ask students to discuss if they meet these people, what kind of body language they will use to greet them.

Step6. Summary

What have we learnt today? 1. The meaning of different kinds of body language.

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2. Different countries have different cultural body language.

3. The importance of learning different countries’ body language.

Step7. Showing some famous sayings When in Rome, do as the Romans do. 入乡随俗。

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form.

优雅的举止胜于美丽的外形。

It is not the fine coat that makes the gentleman. —Thomas Fuller

并非考究的衣饰使人成为绅士。——托马斯·富勒

Step7. Homework Surf the Internet to find out more body languages in different countries.

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