Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending优秀公开课教案

Unit 2 Sailing the Oceans Learning Goals: After this period, you should be able to: 1.Comprehend body language varies from culture to culture and learn methods to summarize the main idea of a story..

2. Predict the main idea of the text by the pictures and the title, acquire useful information quickly by skimming and scanning and analyze the information they get.

3.Learn the importance of body language in communication. 4. Learn some useful words, expressions and some sentence patterns.

5. Learn about cultural differences and intercultural communication and let the Ss avoid misunderstanding in intercultural communication.

Preview: Please write down the Chinese meanings of the following new words.

statement:______________

greet:______________ represent:______________ association:______________ dormitory:______________ canteen:______________ flight:______________ curious:______________ approach:______________ cheek:______________ defense :______________ major:_____________ misunderstand:__________ dash:______________ adult:______________ spoken:______________ simply:______________ be likely to :______________ in general:______________

Step1 Warming-up 1. Look at the picture on Page 25 and discuss with your partner:

What are these people communicating? 2.Group work: read the following statements on Page 25.Choose a phrase and act it out without speaking. Can your partner guess what you are trying to communicate? Step2 Pre-reading

Discuss the questions in pairs and show answers.(Group work)

1. What do you think is the purpose of language? 2. How can you communicate with someone if you cannot speak?Give an example. 3. Look at the title and the pictures of the reading passage. Predict what it is about.

Step3 While-reading 1.Fast-reading 1). Skim the text and answer the following questions.

Why did the international students come to China?

How many cultural mistakes are there in the text?

2).Read the passage quickly and write down its main idea. The passage is mainly about the ______ and necessity of body language

and its _______ between different cultures.

2.Careful-reading 1). Listen and scan the passage quickly and match the main idea of each part with lines. Part1. (Para.1)

Different people have different body language.

Part2. (Para.2~3)

Summary of body language.

Part 3. (Para.4)

Meet the visitors at the airport.

Part 4. (Para.5)

People from different countries express greetings in

different ways. 2) Read the passage part by part. Part 1. (Para.1)

Judge the following sentences T or F (1) Yesterday, only one student, representing our university's student association, went to the Capital International Airport to meet this year's international students. _____ (2) After half an hour of waiting for their flight to arrive, I saw several young people enter the waiting area looking around curiously. _____ (3) I stood for a minute watching them and then went to greet them. _____

Part 2 (Para.2~3) (1) Complete the chart with information from the passage: Name Description Body language

To Whom Tony Garcia

everyone

No touching

Man from Japan

George Cook

To man To woman

Shake hands and kiss twice on each check

(2)

Find out the two mistakes the writer found in the airport:

Part 3.

(Para.4)

Is the author of this passage male or female? How do you know? Part 4.

(Para.5) How can we understand “None

of these actions is either good or bad”? Which of the following sayings has the same meaning?

A.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

B.

Advice when most needed is least heeded.

C.

A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.

D.

A good friend is my nearest relation. 3) Comprehending

(1) Which of the following statement is not true? A. If you are angry at a person, you might turn your back to him or her. B. If you sit looking away from a person, or with your back turned, you are saying you are not interested in that person. C. You

had better not greet your new teacher by giving her or him a hug. D. Smiling is a facial expression which always show true happiness and put people at ease. (2). What does the word “universal” in paragraph one mean?

A. unique

B. different

C . misunderstanding

D. common

(3)The author’s attitude towards body language is _ ______.

A. indifferent

B. negative

C. supportive

D. critical

Step 4 Post-reading Discuss the following questions in groups:

1.“ When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” What do you think this famous saying means?

2. Why do you think we need to study body language? 3. Do you agree with the author’s statement that body language is not good or bad? Why or why not? Homework 1. Write your suggestions on how to study body language. 2. What are some situations where body language is the only form of communication? Why? 3.Finish the exercise on Page28. Exercises1,2and3.