Unit 4 Body Language Assessing Your Progress + Project 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 8

Teaching and learning contents: Assessing Your Progress + Project 

Comprehensive teaching and learning objectives:

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

1) Present and evaluate their writing;

2) Consolidate the vocabulary and grammar item (v-ing used as object an predicative) learned in this unit by completing the exercises;

3) Learn to make a body language information sheet and talk about body language in different cultures to broaden the students’ horizon;

4) Reflect on what has been learnt in this unit.

Teaching and learning important points:

1) Writing presentation and evaluation;

2) Consolidating the vocabulary and grammar item (v-ing used as object an predicative) learned in this unit;

3) Learning to make a body language information sheet and talking about body language in different cultures to broaden the students’ horizon;

4) Reflecting on what has been learnt in this unit.

Teaching and learning difficult point:

1) Consolidating the vocabulary and grammar item (v-ing used as object an predicative) learned in this unit;

2) Learning to make a body language information sheet and talking about body language in different cultures to broaden the students’ horizon.

Teaching and learning procedure:

Step 1 Leading in

Activity 1 Leading in

Introduce the learning objectives of this period.

Step 2 Writing presentation and evaluation  

Activity 2 Writing evaluation and presentation

1. Work in pairs to evaluate each other’s writing, using the checklist (for writing Task 1).

√ Is the person properly identified?

√ Is the description clear?

√ Does the writer give his/her impressions of the feelings and personality of the person in the drawing, and also explain why he/she has these impressions?

√ Does the writer use correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling?

2. Choose a few (2-3) students to read their writing to the class and give feedback.

3. Get the students to make some revision to improve the writing. 

Step 3 Assessing Your Progress

Activity 3 Vocabulary review and exercises

1. Revise the meaning and usage of the words in the box.

2. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box. And then check the answers and give some explanations if necessary.

Answers: components, interacting, perceiving, crucial, staring at, embarrassment, demonstrates, lack.

Activity 4 Grammar review and exercise

1. Revise the usage of v-ing as object and predicative briefly.

2. Decide whether each verb in its -ing form functions as a subject (S), object (O), predicative (P), or attribute (A). And then check the answers.

1) Seeing is believing. (S, P)

2) A man cannot be robbed of his learning. (O)

3) Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. (S, O)

4) After staying in the sleeping bag the whole night, I really needed to stretch my legs. (O, A)

5) You should have been more careful. She started coughing and sneezing yesterday. (O, O)

6) One may agree that in a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving. (S, O)

7) After a long day she looked forward to putting her feet up with a nice cup of tea. (O)

8. Isabella really put her back into learning Chinese. She wants to start living in China in two or three months. (O,O)

9. Fishing in troubled waters may cause even more problems. (S)

Step 3 Project: Making a body language information sheet