Body Language(1)

Teaching Aims

1.　 Learn and master the following

(1)　 make oneself done

(2)　 accept…as

(3)　 not…but…

(4)　 kiss sb. goodbye/hello

(5)　 It is/was+adj./n.+inf.

(6)　 with+compound object.

2.　 Improve the Ss’ ability of reading comprehension

Teaching Difficult Points

Some sentences are hard to understand.

Teaching Methods

1.　 Question-and-answer activity to help the Ss to go through with the whole text.

2.　 Pair work or group work to make every student work in class.

3.　 Fast reading to find out the detailed information about the text.

Teaching Aids

1.a tape recorder

2.a projector

3.the blackboard

Teaching Procedures

Step Ⅰ Greeting

Greet the whole class as usual.

Step Ⅱ Revision

Ask some pairs of Ss to act out their dialogues of No. 1 on Page 75. Revise some expressions of offering or accepting or refusing help.

Step Ⅲ Preparation for Reading

1.T: What do we say in English when we meet someone for the first time?

Ss: Hello!/How do you do?

T: What else can we do?

(Teacher makes a handshake gesture.)

Ss: We can shake hands.

T: Do you know what people do in other countries when they meet for the first time? Today we are going to

read how people behave when they meet or talk to others.

First, look at the title. Do you know the meaning of body language? Look at me, please.(Teacher begins to

silently nod, shake his or her head, smile, frown, wave to the class.)

T: Do you understand Body Language? OK. Let’s learn some new words in this lesson.

1.　 Show the new words in this lesson on the screen, and then give the Ss brief introduction.(Here left out.)

2.　 Ask the Ss to read the text as quickly as possible and try to answer the following question.

—How do the Chinese and British have similar body language?

—Yes.

Step Ⅳ Reading

1.　 Let the Ss read the text again, then answer some detailed questions in the text.

2.　 Show the questionnaire on the screen, ask them to read and discuss them in pairs or groups to complete

the task.

A Questionnaire

3.Check the answer with the whole class.

And deal with the following.

(1)She couldn’t make herself heard.

(2)I cannot accept you as my assistant.

(3)He is not English, but American.

(4)They kissed goodbye when they went away. She kissed her mother hello as soon as she got home.

(5)It is possible to do the experiment in another way.

It is our duty to help the poor.

(6)With a boy leading the way, they started towards the village.(Adverbial)

The old man with his eyes looking at the sky came from Shanghai yesterday.(Attributive)

Step Ⅴ Comparison

T: Now we know different people have different ways of making communication? through body language. And not all the body language means the same thing in different cultures. Please read the text again, then fill in the blanks of the table.

Suggested Answers(Here left out.)

Step Ⅵ Workbook and consolidation

1.　 Play the tape and let the Ss listen to the text.

2.　 Deal with the exercises of No. 2-3 on Page 76.

Step Ⅶ Summing-up

Help the Ss sum up what they have learned in this lesson. Write them on the blackboard.

Step Ⅷ Homework

Read the text again and learn the ABC of Body Language by heart.

Record After Teaching

Attachment

The Design of the Writing On the Blackboard