Unit 4 Body Language 2.doc

Unit 4 Body LanguageReading IClass 10 Teacher: Danielle Date: 2014/12/17 1. Target languages:(1) Important words and phrases: represent, representation, association, dormitory, flight, curious, curiously, be curious about, be curious to do sth, approach, defend, major, misunderstanding, adult, in defence, be likely to, in general, look around, communicate with, kiss sb on the check, shake hands with sb(2) Important sentence structures:1) She stepped back appearing surprised and put up her hands, as if in defence.2) Not all cultures greet each other the same way, nor are they comfortable in the same way with touching or distance between people.2. Ability goals:(1) Enable the students to understand what a certain gesture of the body language means in a given situation.(2) Grasp the important words, phrases and sentence structures in this period.3. Learning ability goals:(1) Help the students learn how to express themselves in body language when needed.(2) Enable the students to develop their reading skills, learn to use some reading strategies such as guessing, scanning, skimming, and so on.4. Teaching important and difficult point:1) Teach the students how to understand body language used in different countries or cultures as well as in different occasions.2) Enable the students to realize the importance of body language in communication so that little or no misunderstanding may occur.5. Teaching methods:Individual work, pair work, and discussion,role-playTeaching procedures:Step 1: Ss previewing the lesson1) to be familiar with the new words and phrases, and preview the passage: to finish the exercise in advanceStep 2: Greeting and Lead -in1) to know what is body language?2) To enliven Ss atmosphere, ask one student to show some body languages: stop, silent, victory, pick-up, I love you, come here, I dont know, happy, good, bad, applause, OKStep 3: Pre-readingTo check out Ss preview, ask them to answer the following questions, and at the same time, to divide the class into four groups to compete.1) Do you think body languages are all the same throughout the world? 2) How many characters are mentioned in the passage? Who are they?3) Do all members of all cultures behave the same way?Step 4: While-readingTo make Ss to master reading skills, Ss need to finish the following questions according to the teacher arrangement.1) How many paragraphs in this passage, and how many parts can be divided? Match the main idea with each part.2) Who, when, where, to what?3) What are the internationalities students doing?4) Who is the first person to arrive? The last one? What happened between them?5) Decide whether the following are true (T) or false (F).1. Englishmen often stand close to others or touch strangers as soon as they meet.2. Most people around the world now greet each other by kissing.3. Japanese will bow to others as greeting.4. People from Jordan will move very close to you as you introduce yourself to them if you are a man.5. Some body languages in some countries are good while some countries body languages are bad.Step 5 Post-reading1) listen to the tape 2) Play a role3) Discuss what they have learned today4) Discuss the meaning of OK and Good in different countries. Step 6 Homework1) Collect some information about body