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Lesson Five What Body Language Can Tell You that Words CannotI. General Arrangements1. Class Hours 92. Teaching Content1) Comprehension: the importance of reading body language2) Language points 3) Structural Analysis of the Text; 4) Topic Discussion 5) Exercises6) Homework: Dictation; Recitation; Writing and so on.3. Objective: By learning the text, the students are supposed to know something about nonverbal language or body language.4. Methods to be applied 1) Questions and answers (comprehension of the text) 2) Performing body language (in the study of the text) 3) Group discussion: oral topicsII. The Important Points1. Language points: adapt to; tip off; contrary to; turn their body away from each other; pigeon-toe inward; be firmly grounded; childlike; stake out; its the cold shoulder; dampen someones ardor; hands off ; etc.2. Main idea of the text3. Structural analysis of the text4. Word study: approach, indicate, dominate, recognize5. Grammar: tense drillsIII. The Difficult Points1. In what cases do we have to use Body Language? / Body Language2. The theme of the text.IV. Detailed Study of the Text1. intuitive ability: ability to understand things without reasoning. e.g. intuitive knowledge2. They adapt their presentation to the messages they pick up: They change their attitude, behavior, action, etc. according to the information they get by reading body language. adapt: 1) make suitable for a new use, need, situation, etc. e.g. When you go to a new country, you must adapt yourself to new manners and customs.The book is adapted to the needs of beginners.adapt yourself to new ways2) alter, change : adapt sth. for a new purpose3) edit: adapt a play for TVpresentation: attitude, behavior, action, etc.pick sth. up 1) gain, acquire: pick up a foreign language (learn it without taking lessons or studying); pick up bits of information 2) recover, regain: Youll soon pick up health when you get to the seaside.pick sb. up: 1) make the acquaintance of casually: a girl he picked up on the street 2) take (person) along with one: He stopped the car to pick up a boy who was hitchhiking to Beijing.3. tip off: give people a hint or warning. give sb. a tip Hence: tip-off give sb. a tip-offtip sb. off (+noun clause)to tip off what people are thinking: to give a warning (hint) of what people are thinking (to show, suggest).tip (n.) 1) end: the tip of a pen 2) top: the tip of a mountain 3) fee: a tip for the waiter 4) advice: useful tips on how to do it4. nonverbal language: non-word means to communicate5. hunch the shoulders, angle (tilt, tip) the head to one side, and compress the lips.6.They face each other squarely: The look at each other directly and frankly, without trying to avoid each others eyes. squarely (adv.): 1) so as to form a right angle 2) fairly; honestly: act squarely 3) directly opposite: He faced me squarely across the table.7. Such signs are unmistakable forms of body language.You cannot misunderstand the massages of such signs.Such signs have unmistakable meanings in the area of body language.8. dominant behavior: behavior that shows control over others (superior, overbearing). Dominant: 1) chief/ ruling/supreme/ leading/main/major/powerful/predominant/ commanding/ dominating/influential/superior e.g. a dominant influence the dominant issue 2) obvious, outstanding: a dominant feature in the landscape domineering (a.): tyrannical: a domineering person9. submissive stance: in contrast to dominant behaviorassume a submissive stance: adopt obedient posture submissive: docile/ humble/obedient/meek/servile10. tend 1) attend to, care for, look after: A shepherd tends sheep.2) nurse, treat: Doctors tend the sick.3) tend to: be liable to, be disposed to, be inclined to, have a tendency to, incline: I tend to fall asleep in the evening. 11. an air of openness: an air of self-confidence, self-assurance, self-importance. Why openness? Readiness to accept other people, frankness, having little to hide from othersair: look, appearance, manner12. inborn: possessed at birth, implanted by nature. an inborn talent, inborn abilityinborn , innate, inbred, instinctive, natural, congenital, ingrained, inherent1. show upa. make known the real truth: The man said he was a mind reader, but he was shown up as a fake.b. come out or bring out: The detective put a chemical on the paper and the fingertips showed up.c. come, appear: We had agreed to gather at the gate, but he didnt show up.2. juvenile, senile3. coquette (n.) : a girl who flirts. v. flirtcoquettish: flirtatious4. stake out(off): mark (an area) with stakesstake out his territory by putting his cigarettes or cash in front of him : put his cigarettes or cash in front of him as a mark of his territory5. It is a very sexually loaded form of communication.It is a form of communication loaded with sexual message (meaning).V. Answers to Questions (I. Comprehension P83)1. If a lawyer can read body language, he will be able to notice it when the judge disagrees or becomes annoyed and quickly try a new approach.2. He id likely to hunch toe shoulders, angle the head to on side and compress the lips.3. Yes, there are. When they approve of something they swivel their upper bodies toward each other and align their shoulders in parallel. They face each other squarely, they lean slightly toward each other, and there is more eye contract. If they disagree, they turn their bodies away from each other.(When they approve, they tend to turn toward each other. Otherwise, away from each other.)4. People in dominant roles use more expansive gestures while people in submissive roles tend to display self-protective stances (contracting gestures)5. automatic raising of the eyebrows6. It signals uncertainty or stress.7. It means nonverbal behavior occurs naturally, without being taught, firmly grounded in evolutionary development.8. Yes. In fact, early courtship is almost entirely made up of nonverbal action.9. When someone is touched, he or she immediately stops for an instant and wonders: “what did that mean?”VI. Dictation1. intuitive unwittingly overture swivel2. The most successful trial lawyers are those who can look at a jury and judge and pick up littli cues that tip off what people are thinking.A man at a party or at a bar will stake out his territory by putting his cigarettes or cash in front of him to show females his status relative to other men.3. adaptto contrary to what ifVII. ExercisesP.86 C. Translate 1. Experiments were made (conducted, performed, carried out, done) to adapt this variety of shrimp to fresh water.(cf. lobster, prawn)2. Sawdust can be compressed into boards.3. In what direction does the fiver run (flow)?4. What if you go instead of me?5. I was going to touch the machine when the man dried, “Hands off!”1. Thoughts are expressed by means of words.2. By contrast, James are much more outspoken.3. The teacher blamed the boy in the presence of the whole class.4. What if we invite your mother next week? (Better: what about inviting your mother)5. The fisherman saved himself by means of a floating board (log).VIII. Word StudyNotes Can you recognize the criminal when you see him? (tell if he is or not)Can you identify the criminal among those people? (tell who the criminal is)P.87.Translate1. The pilot told the passengers to fasten (buckle) their seat belts for the plane would approach the runway soon.(would be approaching).2. Lets approach the chief engineer and see what he thinks. (about it)3. In his book he adopts an entirely new approach to the controversial (disputable)