Unit 4 Body Language Reading and Thinking 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

Reading＆Thinking P37-39 选择性必修 Book 1 Unit 4 Listening to How Bodies Talk Period A: Reading comprehension Pre-reading Look and discuss What might the people be doing in the photos? What do you think they might be feeling? When and how do you use body language to convey meanings? P37 What might the people be doing in the photos? What might be their feelings? A B C D What might the people be doing in the photos? What might be their feelings? A In the photo A，a girl is covering her face with her hand. A woman sitting next to her is looking at her. Maybe the girl has just received bad news and she is feeling very _______________. The woman looks quite ______________________. sad/depressed worried/helpless In the photo B, two men are clapping hands (clapping high fives) and two women are laughing. Possibly they have just successfully completed a project and they are congratulating together. They look very _____________________. B happy/excited/cheerful C In the photo C, a man is hugging his daughter while his wife is standing next to him and watching them. I guess the man is leaving for some reason. The daughter might be feeling _____________ to leave her father. Her father probably feels the same way. unwilling In the photo D, two businessmen are shaking hands and bowing to each other. I think they are making a business deal. They are showing ____________ to each other. D respect When words can’t convey fully what we mean, we may adopt some body language to help show how we feel. sad Can you guess what they are trying to communicate? I am sad. Come here！ happy Goodbye！ surprise Our bodies are talking all the time. But how? Let's look at the passage on P38-39 and learn more. In Bulgaria and southern Albania, shaking one’s head means “no”, and nodding means “yes”. ___ Body language is used to express our thoughts and opinions in our interactions with other people as words. ___ Moving your hand in circles over your stomach means “I am hungry”. ___ F F T Listen and read , then finish the exercises. T or F In Japan, eye contact may demonstrate respect to look down when talking to an older person. ___ If we are feeling down or lonely, seeing the smiling face of a good friend can make us happy. ____ T T Read the passage again and underline the following words or phrases, guess their meanings according to the context. 1 interactions 6 demonstrate 2 varies 7 employing 3 crucial 8 encountering 4 appropriate 9 identical 5 by contrast 10 interpret Check your understanding of the vocabulary in the passage. Play this game, choose the correct explanation for the word or phrase in each sentence. Game Time! Read again and answer the following questions: 1. How is the body language mentioned in the text interpreted in China? 2. Can you think of an example of body language that is appropriate in China but might be misunderstood in another culture? 3. What advice on body language can you give a foreign friend on his/her first trip to China? 1. How is the body language mentioned in the text interpreted in China? Some are the same in China. For example, the gesture for putting hands together and resting them on the side of your head means sleeping. 2. Can you think of an example of body language that is appropriate in China but might be misunderstood in another culture? Avoiding eye contact and lowering one's head may mean respect and being shy in China, whereas in some other countries this body language may be interpreted as being rude. 3. What advice on body language can you give a foreign friend on his/her first trip to China? Please pay attention to the social distance, which is different in China and in the West. Homework: Read the passage again and finish the blanks on page 39 $$