Unit 4 Body Language Reading and Thinking—Language focus 教学设计 -2025-2026学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第一册

Teaching and Learning Design

选择性必修Book1 Unit4 Body Language

教学设计

Period 2

Teaching and learning contents: Reading and thinking—Language Focus and Thinking Quality Development

Comprehensive teaching and learning objectives:

By the end of this period, the students will have been able to:

1) Learn about the usages of new words, chunks and sentence patterns and try to use them in real language situations to develop language competence;

2) Comprehend the text better to improve thinking quality.

Teaching and learning important points:

1) Language focus and better reading comprehension;

2) Text reconstruction and thinking quality improvement.

Teaching and learning difficult points:

New language items learning, text reconstruction and thinking quality improvement.

Teaching and learning procedure:

Step 1 Review

Activity 1 Review

Check the answers to the reading comprehension exercises in reference book to review the main content of the text and improve the students’ reading comprehension of the text.

Step 2 Language Focus

(In this step, the teacher explains some of the new and important language items in the context by offering some examples so that the students could comprehend the text better, and also focus on how to use the language items in specific language situations created by the teacher or doing some exercises such as sentence making and blank-filling exercises to help the students to grasp their usages.)

Activity 2 Learning about the new language items

Learn about the following new language items:

1. interaction n.[u/c] 交流；相互影响

interact v.交流；沟通；合作；相互影响；相互作用

e.g. There was not enough interaction between performers and their audience.

演员和观众之间的互动不充分。

Teachers have a limited amount of time to interact with each child. 教师和每个孩子沟通的时间有限。

Millions of people want new, simplified ways of interacting with a computer.

数以百万计的人们想要新的简化方式实现人机交互。

2. Words are important，but the way people stand，hold their arms，and move their hands can also give us information about their feelings.

言语固然重要，但人们站立、抱臂以及摆手的方式也会向我们传达他们的感受。

the way作先行词的定语从句：(1)way表示“方式；方法”，后接定语从句，且在从句中作状语时，定语从句用in which或that引导，也可以将关系词in which或that省略。 (2)way后接定语从句时，如果关系词在从句中作主语或宾语则用关系代词that/which，作宾语时还可以省略。

e.g. After a while，she apologized for the way (in which/that) she behaved at the beginning.

过了一会儿，她为自己一开始行事的方式道歉。

I think you hurt his pride by laughing at the way (in which/that) he speaks English.

我认为你嘲笑他说英语的方式伤害了他的自尊心。

The way (that/which) he thought of to deal with it was of great importance.

他想到的处理此事的方法非常重要。

3. Just like spoken language, body language varies from culture to culture.   

就像口语一样，肢体语言也因文化而异。

vary vi.(根据情况)变化；改变 vt. 变更；（略做）改变

vary from... to... 在……到……之间变化

vary in... 在……(大小、形状等)方面不同

vary with... 随……而变化

varied adj.各种各样的；不相同的

various adj.各种各样的；多姿多彩的

variety n.不同种类；多样化   a variety of/varieties of 种种；各种各样的

e.g. My doctor said I should vary my diet more.

The students’ work varies considerably in quality.

The menu varies with season.

Pulse rates vary slightly from person to person.

In this school, the class numbers vary between 25 and 30.

It is intended to cover topics varying from music, sports to study strategies, life in school, etc.

它旨在涵盖从音乐、体育到学习策略、学校生活等不同的主题。

Last but not least, I have joined a variety of/varieties of/various activities in and out of the school.

In my free time, I’ll continue to take regular exercise, such as swimming, running and various/varied ball games.

4. appropriate adj. (=suitable, acceptable or correct) 适当的；合适的

  inappropriate adj. 不适当的；不合适的

be appropriate for/to sth. 适合……

e.g. Jeans are not appropriate for a formal party. 正式聚会上穿牛仔裤不合适。

The book was written in a style appropriate to the age of the children. 这本书的文体适合儿童阅读。

Is now an appropriate time to make a speech? 现在发表演讲是不是时候？

5. In other countries, by contrast, eye contact is not always approved of.

  相反，在其他国家，眼神交流并不总是被接受的。

1) by contrast 相比之下

in contrast with/to ... 和……形成对比

by comparison (与……)相比较

in comparison with 与……比较起来

e.g. When you look at their new system, ours seems very old-fashioned by contrast. 

His white hair was in sharp contrast with/to his dark skin.

  By contrast, the new technique is easy and cheap. 相比之下，这个新技术容易而且廉价。

By comparison with London, Paris is small. 与伦敦相比，巴黎较小。

This dress is really cheaper by comparison. 比较起来，这件衣服确实便宜。

A train is slow in comparison with a plane. 同飞机比较，火车走得慢。

2) approve vi.赞成；同意 vt. 批准；通过；认可

approve of sth/(sb./sb’s) doing sth赞成/同意某事/(某人)做某事

approve sth./that… 批准/通过某事

approval n.赞成；同意；批准，通过，认可

give one’s approval to 同意；批准

approving adj.赞许的；许可的