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Teaching Design:
Unit 4 Body language
Teaching Hours: 40 mins
Teacher: Mrs Cao
Lesson type: Reading
Learning Aims:
Knowledge objectives: grasp some important words, phrases in this part;get the students to own their concept of body language
Skill objectives: master related reading skills;
Emotional objectives: learn to accept cultural differences and develop cultural confidence.
Teaching Important and Difficult Points:
1.Help students to get familiar with the key words in the passage
2.Help student to get into the learning of all kinds of body language and how to express properly using our body language.
Teaching Procedures:
· Step 1:Lead-in
Let's suppose
You have a foreign friend named Nick who will come to China next month.
How can you communicate with him when he comes ?
How many ways of communication?
Written language Spoken language Body language
Look and guess
Show some pictures with some postures of gestures; students guess meanings
Whether you can have effective communication?
Look and think.
What helps you guess the meanings?
What is body language?
Body language is one form of _____________ (交流) without using words, including eye contact , facial____________, gestures, and __________ (姿势).
· Step2. Pre-reading Prediction
Read the title together.T: Can our bodies really talk? Why does the writer use “talk” in the title? (personification) What may be talked about in this text?Go through the whole text and check predictions.
· Step3: While-reading
Task 1. Read for main idea
What is the main idea of the text?
A. The cultural similarities of body language
B. The differences between body language and spoken language.
C. The characteristics of body language
D. Body language in different cultures
Task 2. Read for structure and main ideas
Underline the topic sentence in each part, and choose the structure of the text. Then guide the students to summarize each part
Task 3. Read the text quickly and choose the best answer.
1. How does the