Unit 4 Body Language
Part One: Teaching Design
Teaching goals
1. Target Language
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a. 重点词汇和短语
重点词汇和短语
misunderstand, similar, facial, expression, agreement, yawn, chest, gesture, adult, punish
b. 重点句型或交际用语
爱国议论文重点句型或交际用语
Act out the following meanings, plea.
Plea guess what I mean.
Plea show the actions, using body language.
Now it is your turn to show the action / gesture.
Plea u either spoken words or body language to express your ideas.
Plea u both spoken words and body language to express your ideas.
2. Ability goals
a. Enable the students to understand what a certain gesture of the body language means in a given situation.
b. Enable the students to act out some meanings, requirements, requests or situations given in the target language.
c. Enable the students to express with the target language the meanings given in body language.
3. Learning ability goals
a. Help the students learn how to express themlves in body language when needed.
b. Help the students understand others when body language is being ud.
Teaching important points
a. Teach the students how to understand body language ud in different countries or cultures as well as in different occasions.
b. Teach the students how to u body language in the most appropriate occasions. Teaching difficult points
a. Enable the students to realize the importance of body language in communication so that little or no misunderstanding may occur.ribosome
b. Let the students know that there is both positive body language and negative body language.
Teaching methods
a. Individual work, pair work and group work.
b. Acting out by imitation, mime or with gestures and body movement.
Teaching aids
A computer, a projector and some pictures.
Teaching procedures & ways
The first period reading
(COMMUNICATION: NO PROBLEM?)
适合发朋友圈的话
Aims
To help students develop their reading ability.
To help students learn about body language.
Procedures
I. Warming up
Warming up by acting
Look at the list of interpretation on the right side of the chart. Perform the action or the nonverbal behaviour on the left side.
Examples Of Body Language
Warming up by defining—What is body language?
II. Pre-reading
1. Looking and saying
Look at the man in the picture below. What does he say to you by his body language?
Basically, how the ...... do I know? Or, I don’t know nothin! The shoulders are hunched and the hands are open signifying a big question mark.
2. Talking and sharing
Body language is the quiet, cret and most powerful language of all!
According to experts, our non-verbal language communicates about 50% of what we really mean (vo
ice tonality contributes 38%) while words themlves contribute a mere 7%.
Our bodies nd out messages constantly and often we don't recognize that we're communicating a lot more than we realize.
Our understanding and u of non-verbal cues in facial expression are familiar to us nearly from birth
III. Reading
1. Reading aloud to the recording
Now plea listen and read aloud to the recording of the text COMMUNICATION: NO PROBLEM?. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the paus within each ntence. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.
2. Reading and underlining
Next you are to read and underline all the uful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.
3. Reading to identify the topic ntence of each paragraph
Next you are to skim the text to identify the topic ntence of each paragraph.
4. Reading and transferring information
Read the text again to complete the table. Where is he/ she from? What does he/ she do when he/ she meet someone at the airport for the first time?
Name Country Action Meaning
Mr Garcia
手机型号怎么看Julia Smith
Ahmed Aziz
Madame Coulon
5. Reading and understanding difficult ntences
As you have read the text times, you can surely tell which ntences are difficult to understand. Now put your questions concerning the difficult points to me the teacher.
6. Reading and translating
Now it’s time to translate the text into Chine, ntence by ntence. Who will be the first to d o it?
IV. Closing down
Closing down by doing exercis
To end the lesson you are to do the comprehending exercis No. 1 and 2 on page 26 and 27.
Closing down by checking
C heck some of the following basic non-verbal cues and you'll recognize that you already speak and translate much of the language.
“I’m surprid!” I’m shocked!” “I’m sad!”
The cond period Learning about Language
(The ~ing form as the Attribute & Adverbial)
I. Warming up
3月31日Warming up by discovering uful words and expressions
Turn to page 27 and do exercis No. 1, 2 ,3 and 4 first. Check your answers against your classmates’.
II. Learning about grammar
1. Reading and thinking
Turn to page 25 and read with me the text of COMMUNICATION: NO PROBLEM? As you read along, pay attention to the us of The ~ing form as the Attribute & Adverbial. (They are visitors coming from veral countries. 作定语；Four people enter looking around in a curious way. 作状语；
作状语； This is an exciting experience for you. 作定语; You stand watching and listening. 作状语；……)
2. Doing exercis No. 1 and 2 on page 29
Turn to page 29. Do exercis No. 1 and 2。
III. Ready ud materials for The ~ing form as the Attribute & Adverbial
... When we u a verb in -ing form more like a verb or an adjective, it is usually a prent participle:. Anthony is fishing. I have a boring teacher. In this lesson, we will look at the u of verbs in the ~ing form ...
1.The ~ing form 作定语
2 The ~ing form 作状语
IV. Closing down by doing a quiz
To end the period you are going to take a quiz on ~ing words.
~ING WORDS
Highlight all the words ending in '-ing'.
Make lists of all the different categories of '-ing' words; that is, their different functions in the ntence.
Examples of some of the different categories
· He's swimming.
· He's wearing a swimming suit.
· He likes swimming.
· Swimming is pleasant.
Rewrite each ntence without using the '-ing' form.
Is there a change in meaning? What is it?
Find ntences in the text which can be rewritten using an -ing form.
Is there any change in meaning? What is it?
The third period Using Language
迅速的拼音
(SHOWING OUR FEELINGS)
Aims
To help students read the passage SHOWING OUR FEELINGS.
To help students to u the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing. Procedures
I. Warming up
Read aloud to warm up: L et’s warm up by reading aloud to the recording of the text SHOWING OUR FEELINGS.
II. Guided reading
1. Reading and translating
Read the text SHOWING OUR FEELINGS and translate it into Chine paragraph by paragraph. He Jing. You are to do paragraph 1, plea. ….
2. Reading and underlining
Next you are to read and underline all the uful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.
Collocations from SHOWING OUR FEELINGS
Show all kinds of feeling, turn one’s back to…, show anger, clo one’s hand, shake… at…, a universal facial expression, put…at ea, hide feelings, lo face, nod the head up and down, look away from…, hold one’s arms across one’s chest, protest…from …, turn toward…, roll one’s eyes, show respect for…, u gestures, give a hug to sb., stand clo to…, with…open, look directly at…, look sb. in the eye, tell the truth, be wrong about…
3. Doing exercis
Now you are going to do exercis No. 1 and 2 on page 30 following the article.
The importance of body language
People can not live without each other, we are social beings. As soon as we are in contact with others we are communicating. For this we can make u of spoken and written language. In the ways we make the content of a message clear to each other. However we can also communicate wit
hout words. This kind of communication tells us something about the relationship between people. Often this is more important than getting the content of the message across. The communication about this non spoken communication, which tells us something about the relationship between people, is called Meta-Communication. Communicating about communication!
4. Writing
Turn to page 31. Make a list of three positive body language expressions and three negative body language
expressions. Non-verbal communication, or body language
o Refers to messaging without words
In a personal spoken message
o According to Albert Mehrabian, in Psychology Today
(1968), of the total message
§ 7% is conveyed by the words
§ 38% by the vocal tones, and
§ 55% by facial and body expression
o Reading body language is an important skill
The fourth period Listening, writing
Step 1 Turn to page 31 and do the listening and writing exercis No. 1 and 2. Positive gesture clusters - 2
胜利者英文●Confidence
o Steepling (fingers touching like a church steeple)
o Hands behind back, authority position
o Back stiffened
●Expectancy
o Rubbing palms
o Jingling money openly
o Crosd fingers
o Moving clor
