unit4 body language 教案

Unit 4 Body Language一. Teaching goals1. Target LanguageImportant words and phrases:Words: misunderstand, similar, facial, expression, agreement, adult, punish…Phrases: be likely to;2. Ability goalsa. Enable the students to understand what a certain gesture of the body language means in a given situation.b. Enable the students to act out some meanings, requirements, requests or situations given in the target language.c. Enable the students to express with the target language the meanings given in body language.3. Learning ability goalsa. Help the students learn how to express themselves in body language when needed.b. Help the students understand others when body language is being used.二. Teaching important pointsa. Teach the students how to understand body language used in different countries or cultures as well as in different occasions.b. Teach the students how to use body language in the most appropriate occasions.三. Teaching difficult pointsa. Enable the students to realize the importance of body language in communication so that little or no misunderstanding may occur.b. Let the students know that there is both positive body language and negative body language.四. Teaching methodsa. Individual work, pair work and group work.b. Acting out by imitation, mime or with gestures and body movement.五. Teaching arrangement:Period 1: Warming up & readingPeriod 2&3: words and expressionsPeriod 4: grammar --v-ing formPeriod 5: using language (SHOWING OUR FEELINGS)Period 6: Listening, writingPeriod7: RevivePeriod 1: Warming up & readingCommunication：no problem?Aims:To help students develop their reading ability.To help students learn about body language.Procedures:Step1. Warming upWarming up by actingLook at the list of interpretation on the right side of the chart. Perform the action or the nonverbal behaviour on the left side.Step2. Pre-readingLooking and sayingLook at the man in the picture below. What does he say to you by his body language?Talking and sharingBody language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all!According to experts, our non-verbal language communicates about 50% of what we really mean (voice tonality contributes 38%) while words themselves contribute a mere 7%.Our bodies send out messages constantly and often we don't recognize that we're communicating a lot more than we realize.Our understanding and use of non-verbal cues in facial expression are familiar to us nearly from birth Step3. Reading1. Reading aloud to the recordingNow please listen and read aloud to the recording of the text COMMUNICATION: NO PROBLEM?. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence.I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.2. Reading and underliningNext you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.3. Reading to identify the topic sentence of each paragraphNext you are to skim the text to identify the topic sentence of each paragraph.4. Reading and transferring informationRead the text again to complete the table. Where is he/ she from? What does he/ she do when he/As you have read the text times, you can surely tell which sentences are difficult to understand. Now put your questions concerning the difficult points to me the teacher.6. Reading and translatingNow it’s time to translate the text into Chinese, sentence by sentence. Who will be the first to do it?Step4. exercise:To end the lesson you are to do the comprehending exercises No. 1 and 2 on page 26 and 27. Step5: homework:Try to retell the passage with your own words and prepare for the next period—language points. AfterthoughtsPeriod2 &3 words and expressionsTeaching goals1. Target languagea. Important words and phrases:major, represent, introduce, approach, touch, cheek, misunderstanding, avoid; be likely to, be curious about, avoid doing…b．important sentences:1)His nose touches Mr. Cook's moving hand, and they both apologize.2)Four people enter looking around in a curious way.3)Not all cultures greet each other the same way.4)Shaking the head means that you do not agree, or that you refuse to do something. Teaching important pointsTo get the ss master the important points in the readingTeaching difficult pointsHow to get the ss master the important points in the readingTeaching methods: explanation; practice; Task-based.Teaching procedures:Step1. checking:Ask one volunteer to retell the reading passage with his own words.Step2: readingRead the whole passage together loudly and underline the important words and sentences.Step3: language points:major a. a major earthquake 大地震，a major subject 主修科目local a. local customs地方风俗，a local pain 局部疼痛，当地时间local timerepresent v.代表，代替=in place of sbcurious a.be curious about 对… 好奇children are always curious about new things.n. curiosity 好奇心out of curiosity 出于好奇心Introduce v.be introduced from… 从…传来的introduce…to sb. 向某人介绍……approach v. & n.v. 靠近，接近cautiously approached the house 小心地走近那房子,n. 方法，通道，来临。