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Unit 4 Body Language

Warming up and Reading

Teaching Aims

To help students develop their reading ability.

To help students learn about body language.

Teaching Procedures

I. Warming up

Warming up by acting

Look at the list of interpretation on the right side of the chart. Perform the action or the

nonverbal behaviour on the left side.

Examples Of Body Language

Warming up by defining—What is body language?

II. Pre-reading

Match the two columns

Do you know?

Different countries have different body languages.

Let us learn some different body languages between Chinese body language and

America body language.

Guess new phrases

Guessing new words

III. Reading

Reading aloud to the recording

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.

Reading and underlining

Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the

passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.

1 Choose:

Which is the main idea of the text?

A. There are different customs in different countries.

B. Foreigners should follow the customs of the country where they are visiting.

C. People use body movements to send messages and different body movements have

different meanings.

D. The importance of knowing customs.

2 Fast reading find the characters and where they are from?

3 Please divide the passage into four parts and find out the main idea of each part.

4 Matching the people and the different ways of greeting (para2&5)

5 Read the text carefully, then decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F). 6 Discussions:

An Englishman and a man from Jordan meet for the first time, an interesting thing

happens.

Ⅳ summary What can you learn from this passage?

Body language is very important in our daily life, and it may vary from different cultures.

When we are visiting other countries, we should follow their customs. That is to say, ___when in Rome ，do as Romans do __.