Learning about Language教案和学案内容

Unit 4

Body Language

单位：天峻县第一民族中学

姓名：切增拉毛

科目：英语

课题：Body Language 年级：高一

Warming up：

Look at the pictures below. What are these people communicating? Discuss ideas with your partner. Do you have the same idea about each picture?

Pre-reading：

1.What do you think is the purpose of language? Discuss your opinion with your partner. 2.How can you communicate with someone if you cannot speak? Give an example Teaching Goals: 1.Talk about body language:cultural differences and intercultural communication. 2. Practice talking about prohibition & warning as well as obligation. 3. Learn to write a diary that showing the observation of how body language helps in communication. 4. Help the students learn how to explain the common idea—“different cultures, different body languages”.

Teaching Important Points:

1.Teach the students how to understand body language used in

different countries or cultures as well as in different occasions.

2. How does body language differ among people from different cultures?

Teaching Difficult Points:

1.Let the students know that there is both positive body language and negative body language.

2.To grasp the main idea of the text.

Reading

Communication: No problem? Main idea of the text:

People use body movements to send messages and different body movements have different meanings. Main idea of each divided part: Para 1: You are going to meet this year’s international students.

Para 2 3 4: Not all cultures greet each other the same way. Para 5: A Summary of body language. Homework:

Read the text carefully, then decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F). 1. Englishmen 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. People from Jordan will move very close to men but not shake hands with women. 5. Some body languages in some countries are good while some countries’ body language are bad.