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Unit 4  Body language

The First Period

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target Language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

misunderstand, similar, facial, expression, agreement, yawn, chest, gesture, adult, punish

b. 重点句型或交际用语

Act out the following meanings, please.

Please guess what I mean.

Please show the actions, using body language.

Now it is your turn to show the action / gesture.

Please use either spoken words or body language to express your ideas.

2. Ability goals能力目标

a. 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 goals 学能目标

a. 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.

Teaching important points教学重点

a. 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.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

a. 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.

Teaching methods教学方法

a. Individual work, pair work and group work.

b. Acting out by imitation, mime or with gestures and body movement.

Teaching aids教具准备

A computer, a projector and some pictures.

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step I Lead-in

The teacher uses the pictures on the screen to asks the students to think of the body language and let some students to act something without speaking

Step II Explaination  What is body language ?

Let the students to think about when do people use body language

The teacher shows some pictures on screen. These pictures are from the Evening Party Celebrating the coming Lunar New Year of the  

Ss: Yes, Thousands of Hands Kwan-yin.

Step Ⅲ  Introduction

T: Ok. It’s time to take up the lesson. Please look at the screen. Let’s take a look at the following gestures:

T: What are the actions of the above gestures? What do they mean?

S1: The first gesture is a handshake, which means “You’re welcome”.

S2: The second is a handclap, which means “Come on” or “Be cheerful” or something like that.

S3: The third one is a V-shaped posture of the first finger and the middle finger, which suggests a wish for the other or others to succeed.

S4: The fourth is a half-closed hand with the thumb down. It means the one who gives this gesture is against the other’s idea or simply refuses the request.

T: You have all done a good job. So you see that there are many cases or situations in which body language can convey meanings as well as spoken or written languages. If you want to know more about it, let’s do some practice.

Step Ⅳ Practice

Show some pictures and guess them one by one.

Time for Fun

T: Now let’s play a game in groups of three. One thinks of a situation and asks the others to show some actions using body language. When the one chooses the action that is most likely, it is his or her turn to think of some other situation for the others to show the actions so that the game may go on for a few rounds. Clear?

Ss: Yes. That’s funny!

T: Try to make the situations as interesting and enjoyable as you can. And show the situation as lively as possible. Besides, make sure that everyone has a turn.

Ss: All right.

Step V Pre-reading

Let the students understand the function of body language by answering some questions.

Step VI  Homework

1. Team work: Discuss the importance of body language and write a passage about body language.

2. Revise the words and expressions

3. Preview the Reading:

1) Communication: No Problem?  

2) Showing our feeling.