上海牛津高一英语教案U1 Body Language

Unit 1 Body language

First Period (text understanding)

Knowledge Objective: to enable students to get a general idea of the material

to fill out information gap about body language

Competence Objective: to practice students’ speaking abilities

Emotional Objective: to help the students to know more about the culture

Teaching Procedures:

I. Pre-instruction:

T: In our daily life we often inevitably communicate with other people and can you tell me what are the common ways we use to exchange information with others?

S: utterance(spoken words)…

T: But do you know between 60-80% of our message is communicated through our Body Language, only 7-10% is attributable to the actual words of a conversation. By the way, do you have any idea of body language?

S:…

T: Body Language is the unspoken communication that goes on with another human being. It tells you their true feelings towards you. and who’d like to give us some examples of body language?

S:…

T: So you see body language sometimes discloses people’s wishes, fears or what someone gets in his mind; sometimes conveys people’s moods, now next can you tell the moods from different facial expressions? (P2. Ex.. A)

S…

II. Performance

T: and here is a story in the text about body language, from the story we will discover how it works,why it is so important and how, with a little knowledge and understanding you can greatly change the outcome of everyday situations. Please skim the story and list the body languages between Debbie and Simon. (pair work)

S:

T: So do you think body language is very important? Your ability to read or understand a person’s body language can make difference between making a good or bad impression.

T: now use your own words to describe Debbie or Simon to your deskmate(pair work)with the help of the table. above

S:…

T/S: (explain and understand the verbal phrases)

III.Promotion:

T: Now I’d like to ask some students to use his or her body language to act out these verbal phrases and the others speak up the correct phrases.

S:…

T: After you have learned the body language ,I’m sure all of you will pay more attention to it in your communication with others.

Homework:

1.Review the verbal phrases

2.Preview the vocabulary and phrases in the text and finish Ex.C1,C2

3.Practise reading and act out the story

4.Fill out the table to know more about body language

Examples of Body Language

6. Daily talk: My Body Language ( The body language of my family members)