Unit 4 Body Language Using language—Listening and Speaking 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 5

Teaching and learning contents: Using Language—Exploring body language (Listening and talking)

Comprehensive teaching and learning objectives:

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

1) Talk about body language and understand some facial expressions;

2) Listen to and understand the conversation and learn to infer meaning;

3) Learn about the expressions used to ask for and give clarification;

4) Try to act out a scene using only body language to communicate;  

5) Learn about the pause in the sentences and practice reading sentences and a passage with correct pauses.

Teaching and learning important points:

1) Listening comprehension and inferring meaning;

2) Learning about and using the expressions to ask for and give clarification;

3) Exploring the meaning and usage of body language and using body language to communicate;

4) Practising reading with correct pauses.

Teaching and learning difficult points:

1) Listening comprehension and inferring meaning;

2) Learning about and using the expressions to ask for and give clarification;

3) Exploring the meaning and usage of body language and using body language to communicate;

4) Practising reading with correct pauses.

Teaching and learning procedure:

Step 1 Review and leading in

Activity 1 Review and leading in

1. Revise the usage of the v-ing as object and predicative, and then check the answers to the grammar exercises in the reference book.

2. Lead in the teaching topic—Exploring body language and introduce the teaching and learning objectives of this period.

Step 2 Listening

Activity 2 Pre-listening

1. Talk and share. Look at these photos and discuss what you think each person is communicating.

  Suggested answers:

1) It is really hard to tell what this man is communicating. Normally, we might think he could be upset.

2) The boy has crossed both his fingers and has his eyes closed, with a serious expression on his face. Usually crossed fingers show that a person is hoping for good luck, especially if he is worried about failure. But crossed fingers can also mean that he has made a promise that he intends to break.

3) The woman in the photo is either deaf or is communicating with her husband who is deaf. She is using American Sign Language, and the sign she is using means “I love you”.

4) The two children seem quite happy. Perhaps they have just won a table tennis match.

Picture	Body language	Meaning
1	frown, tightly-shut eyes, tight-lipped	in great pain
2	fingers crossed	good luck
3	hug, embrace, American Sign Language	love
4	smile, hold hands tightly	friendly

2. Discuss when and where people need to use body language to communicate.

Suggested answer: Body language often needs to be used in situations where people cannot talk to each other directly. This can include, for example, deaf people using sign language, two people who can’t understand each other’s languages, or people in situations where they have to be silent or keep quite. 

Activity 3 While-listening

1. Listen to a conversation about body language twice. And then answer the following questions.

1) How did the man get the idea of using gestures to communicate?

  From an action movie.

2) What did the police leader tell his team by using gestures?

  He used gestures to tell them how many bad guys were in the house. Then he gave instructions on who should go where, and what they should do.

3) What did the woman say about the acting classes that she’s been taking?

  She said that right now they’re learning how to use body language to express themselves.

4) What did the man mean by saying “It’s good you tried” at the end of the conversation?

  He meant that even though she wasn’t very good at it, her experience was still worthwhile.