Learning about Language教案及板书设计

Unit 4 Body language Warming up & Reading 1 Design idea 紫金县中山高级中学

马燕辉

This is the first part of this period. In this period, the main task is to guide students to have a good understanding of the text. Various reading activities are designed for students to get the main idea and detailed information of the text. After that, the students are expected to practice expressing their own opinions. Teaching aims：

1.

Get the students to know the meaning of body language. 2.

Get the students to have a good understanding of the different ways of greeting in different cultures. 3.

Get the students to cooperate with others to express their opinions and develop the interest in learning about foreign cultures. Teaching important and difficult points: 1.

Enable students to distinguish the differences in body language in different countries. 2.

Enable students to express their opinions in their own words. Teaching steps Step 1 Warming up T: What is the purpose of language? S: To communicate with each other. T: How many ways of communicating do you know? Then lead in spoken language,written language and body language and ask students what body language is. Let them fill in the blanks.At last, play a game about language.

Step 2 Reading 1 Task 1 Leading in Ask the students to think about the questions:

There are many different ways to greet someone using words. 1.What will you do if you can't greet someone with words?

2.Is it the same in other Countries?

3.What will they do when they can't use words to communicate with each other?

4.Do you want to know more about it?

Step 3 Fast reading Read para 2&3 and answer 3 questions. 1. How many characters did I meet in the Airport? Who are they ? Where are they from?

Who:

Where:

2. Do all people of all cultures behave the same way ? 3. Matching the people and their different ways of greeting . ( 8 min' ) Tony Garcia (Columbia)

does not stand very close to others or touch strangers Julia Smith (Britain)

bows Akira Nagata(Japan)

kiss on the cheek to everyone he meet George Cook (Canada)

shakes hands and kisses twice on each cheek Darlene Coulon (France)

shakes hands to men while only nods to women

Ahmed Aziz (Jordan)

shakes hands

Read para 4&5 and answer 2 questions. ( 8 min' ) 1. Arroding to the passage, which of the statement is true? A.Not all of the cultures feel comfortable in the same boby languages.

B.Most people around the world used to greet each other by shaking hands. C.People from places like Spain,Italy or Canada approach others closely and are more likely to touch them. D.English people often stand very close to others or touch strangers as soon as they meet. 2. What can we infer from the passage? A.Not all of the cultures are good to people.

B.The person from Japan will not like the person from Canada.

C.People from places like Spain will not approach others closely when they greet others. D.If we want to avoid difficulties in today's world of cilture crossroad, we'd better study international customs.

Step 4 Conclusion Different countries have

(不同)cultures, so when people greet each other, they will have different

(方式). If people don't know the cultural differences well, people may have difficulties in

（交流）with others throughout the world.

Step 5

Homework Read the passage after class and find out the difficulty points in the passage.