Lesson Plan Unit4 Body Language教学设计

Lesson Plan Unit4 Body Language
Reading: Communication: No Problem?
Teaching Objectives
By the end of the class,
1.Students will be able to master some new words such as represent,
association, canteen, dormitories, approached, defence, misunderstanding,
and so on.
2.Students will be able to understand the main idea of this passage and the
structure of the passage.
3.Students will be able to know different ways of greeting in different
cultures and be aware of the relationship between body language and
culture.
4.Students will be able to learn some reading skills, such as predicting,
skimming and scanning.
Teaching material
This unit is about the cultural differences and intercultural communication. The reading passage is about the body language of greeting in different countries and the author’s believes of studying international customs.
Teaching Focus
1.Students should summarize the main idea and structure of the passage.
2.Students should learn to use the reading skills to find information.
Teaching Difficulties
Students may find it is difficult to summarize the main idea of each paragraph and get the main idea.
Teaching aids: Multi-media blackboard
Teaching procedures:
Step 1: Warming-up (2mins)
Greet with students and ask students “what were we doing?” to introduce the word greeting.
Step 2: Pre-reading (3mins)
Task1. There are so many different ways to greet someone using words, but can you greet someone/express your feelings without speaking?
(gestures/facial expression/eye contact/postures) Then introduce the body language. Step 3 : While-reading (24mins)
Task1: Skimming (3mins)
Read Para2-3 quickly and answer two questions.
1.How many international students are mentioned in the story?
2.How many cultural mistakes are mentioned by the author?
Task2: Scanning(8mins)
Read the passage paragraph by paragraph and underline the topic sentences of each paragraph.
Work in group of six to discuss the main idea and write them down.
Task3: Careful Reading(13mins)
1.How do different international students behave when they greet people?
2.Did any students have similar greeting customs? If so, which ones?
3.Find out the two cultural mistakes in Para.2
4. Complete the chart with information from Para.4
Step 3: Post-reading(10mins)
1.Is the author of this passage a man or a woman? How do you know?
2.What do you think this famous saying “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”
means?
3.A summary of this passage.
Step4: Homework(1mins)
1.Read the passage at least three times.
2.Find more cultural differences in greeting.
Blackboard design
Unit 4 Body language
nonverbal greeting
A major misunderstanding
Another culture mistake
Reflection
This passage is about the greeting ways and body languages in different cultures, so there are some names of foreign students and countries which are difficult to pronounce, then students couldn’t find the information quickly. I should read these words before the class several times. Some of them were a little nervous and shy about the environment so that the whole atmosphere was not good. Besides, I should slow down my requests to make them clear and increase some drill after the comprehending .。