新人教版必修四Unit4 Body Language教学设计

Unit 4 Body language Ｉ．单元教学目标II．目标语言Ⅲ．教材分析和教材重组1．教材分析本单元以Body Language——“体态语”为中心话题，具体涉及什么是“体态语”，如何理解“体态语”，以及“体态语”的跨文化性等。

本单元的语言技能和语言知识也都是围绕“体态语”这一中心话题设计的，旨在通过单元教学，用听、说、读、写、做(表演)等多种形式，让学生正确认识和掌握“体态语”在交际中的作用和意义，使学生明确“体态语”在人类交际中的重要性，了解“体态语”在不同民族、不同文化交际中的多样性；使学生在今后的日常生活、学习、工作和交往中尽量减少或避免运用“体态语”时可能产生的误解，提高他们的“语言交际”能力和“非语言交际”能力。

1.1 WARMING UP 以列表对比（填充及增补）的形式，并通过WARMING UP 的活动，让学生了解有声语言与“体态语”的对应关系，了解语言意义与行为意义（“体态语”）在交际中具有同等重要的作用。

同时，学生在听、说、做（即表演“体态语”的动作）中能够增进对语言交际的感性认识，为他们在阅读过程中上升到对语言交际的理性认识打下基础。

1.2 PRE-READING 通过提供三个关于不同文化背景下“体态语”的问题，启发学生思考我们所学习的“语言”的目的、形式、功能。

通过引导学生联系自己日常生活的实际，提高学生努力学习英语的积极性和自觉性；同时培养学生留心社会、关注生活的洞察力，为引导学生进一步“阅读”作好准备。

1.3 READING 是一篇介绍性（记叙文）体裁的文章，主要介绍了各种文化背景下的“体态语”的异同，为学生提供了来自不同国度、不同语言文化背景的“体态语”及其在交际中的异同和影响的具体例证。

学生也可以结合自己在语言交际中所遇到的实际例子来进一步理解“交际，毫无问题可言吗？”这一主题。

1.4 COMPREHENDING 包括八个问题（前5个旨在检查学生对阅读材料细节的理解，6~7旨在引导学生对“体态语”的意义及文化差异的思考，第8个检查学生能否通过细节进行推理判断），通过对来自不同国度、不同语言文化背景的六个角色对待男女不同性别所使用的“体态语”异同的（学生在老师指导下的自我或小组讨论后的）归纳，进一步熟悉和掌握“体态语”在不同语言文化交际中的作用和意义。

1.5 LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE 分词汇和语法两部分。

词汇部分由“本单元重点词汇英文释义”，“词语填空”和“词性变换”三项内容构成，语法部分由两大方面组成：一是让学生自己通过在课文中寻找相关语法的句子并按其语法功能分类，二是根据学生的认知规律安排该语法项目的练习让学生进行操练。

整个项目通过三个练习和一个游戏，以及语法结构讲练，进一步巩固本单元所学词汇（尤其是课文中的黑体字），学习“现在分词”结构用作定语和状语，并通过操练，以收到“学以致用”、“熟练生巧”的效果。

1.6 USING LANGUAGE 通过增加阅读篇目“Showing Our Feelings”来拓展学生在“体态语”方面的知识视野，并通过“True” or “False”判断练习和问题讨论，使学生进一步明确“体态语”对人们在日常交际中了解对方情感、思想、态度等方面所起的作用。

同时要让学生认真对待自己的“体态语”，并在日常交际中“听其言”（Listen to them）、“观其行”（Watch them）。

此外，该部分还通过听、说、读、写四个方面来巩固本单元所学内容和语言交际项目。

1.7 SUMMING UP 师生从话题、词汇和结构三个方面来共同总结本单元所学的单词和短语，语言及语法项目，总结本单元所学的主要内容和收获。

1.8 LEARNING TIPS 建议学生关注实用交际技巧，学会“体态语”；建议学生在看英语电影时或与以英语为母语的人士交谈时，观察对方面部表情和体态姿势，观察对方的“言”、“行”，进而形成有效的口笔头语言及“体态语”的交际能力。

2. 教材重组2.1 听力：Using language中的Listening, Workbook中的Listening和Listening Task 这三部分的任务及话题较为接近，将这三个部分整合在一起上一堂听力课。

2.2 口语：Warming up, Using language中的Reading and Talking, Speaking和Workbook中的Talking，Speaking Task以及Learning about language中的Discovering useful words and expressions 4, “Play a game in group of four”均紧扣本单元话题，同时涉及到本单元的功能句，教师可指导学生通过“说”（用英语发出与“体态语”相关的指令）与“做”（用“体态语”表达指令）结合来进行口语训练，这将是一节生动有趣的口语课。

2.3 精读：把Pre-reading，Reading和Comprehending三部分整合为一节阅读课。

2.4 泛读：把Using Language中的Reading和Workbook中的Reading Task整合为一节拓展学生视野的泛读课。

2.5 语言学习：深入处理Learning about language中的Discovering useful words and expressions, Discovering useful structures; Workbook中的Using Words and Expressions和Using Structures。

重点学习Discovering useful structures中“-ing (现在分词)”在句中做定语和状语的用法。

2.6 语言运用：处理Using Language中的Reading and Writing和Workbook中的Writing Task。

指导学生写一篇有关“The Body Language I Know”短文，反映其在不同文化背景、不同语言环境中的运用情况，及所造成的理解上的困难、障碍甚至误解等。

3．课型设计与课时分配1st period Speaking2nd period Reading (I)3rd period Reading（II）4th period Language Study5th period Listening6th period WritingⅣ．分课时教案The First Period SpeakingTeaching 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, punishb. 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.Please use both spoken words and 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-inThe teacher shows some pictures on screen. These pictures are from the Evening Party Celebrating the coming Lunar New Year of the Rooster of 2005.Ss: Yes, Thousands of Hands Kwan-yin.T: But do you know who she is? Yes, she was the leading dancer of the program. Her name is Tai Lihua（邰丽华）. She is called a Fairy of Peach blossom(桃花仙子) by people. You know she is a deaf girl, but she is a wise, diligent, charming and energetic girl. She studied very hard and got two degrees of bachelors in university. She was famous as an artist for her wonderful performance. She is deaf and dumb. But how did she get that great achievement and became a successful person? She loves life very much. We should learn from her spirit. Besides her hard working, body language plays a very important part in her life. We are all healthy people, sometimes we can use body language to express ourselves. So we should pay more attention to learning body languages.Step II IntroductionT: Now let’s do some TPR (Total Physical Response) activities together, I hope you will enjoy them and have fun as well.Touch your head / face / eyes / nose / mouth / ears / cheeks / forehead / shoulders / stomach / legs / feet / toes ...Shake your head / arm / hand ...Wave your arm / hand ...Open your eyes / arms /mouth ...Close your eyes / mouth ...Twist your wrist / waist.Cross your arms / fingers.Nod your head. Bow your head.Make a face to each other.Bend / cry / shout / scream / smile / laugh ...T: All right. Now let’s do them a little bit difficult. Let’s play a game together. Those who fail to follow the rule of the game will be dropped out. T he game is: “Simon says”. For example, if I say “Simon says, touch your head”, then you touch your head. If not, you shouldn’t touch your head but remain still. Clear? Ready? Now let’s start.3 or 5 minutes for the game.T: Ok. It’s time to take up the lesson. Please look at the screen. Let’s take a look at the following gestures:Gesture Action MeaningA handshake You are welcome.A clap of hand Come on; be cheerful.A V-shape of the fore-finger and middle finger May you succeed!Or congratulations on your success!A half-closed hand with thumb down I am not in favor of your idea or I’ll have to refuse you.A wrinkling of the browin thought or displeasureor a scowlShe is worried.Tears coming out of hiseyes.He is very sad.All smiles on her face She is very happy.Waving their hands They are waving goodbyeto people around.A hand stretched outforward with strengthHe is stopping a tank.People jump with their both hands stretched open in the air. They are cheering for the victory.T: What are the actions of the above gestures? What do they mean?S4: The first gesture is a handshake, which means “You’re welcome”.S5: The second is a handclap, which means “Come on” or “Be cheerful” or something like that.S6: 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.S7: 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 o r simply refuses the request.S8: The fifth is a worried look of a woman. She wrinkles her brows or frowns. It also seems that she scowls. It shows that she is worried or sad. In other words, she is unhappy.S9: The sixth is a man shedding tears. Tears were running down his cheeks. He is very sad for losing his relatives or sad for his failure.S10: The seventh is a smiling face. It is easy to see that she is very happy.S11: The eighth is a gesture of waving hands. They are waving goodbye to people who are around to see them off.S12: The ninth is a hand stretched out forward with great strength. The boy is trying to stop a tank from entering into his homeland.S13: The tenth is hands stretched out upward. They are all very cheerful. They are wild with joy; maybe they have just won a game. So we can see that they are cheering for their victory.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 come to Unit 4 Body Language.Step Ⅲ PracticeT: Look at Page 25.What are these people communicating?Step Ⅳ Time for FunT: Now let’s play a game in groups of four. 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.S1: What are you likely to do if it rains?(Actions) S2: reads a book;S3: puts on a raincoat;S4: cleans the house.S1: Ok. I think S3 seems the most likely, so it is his turn.S3: What are you likely to do if the river floods?(Actions) S1: runs away as fast as he can;S2: helps the younger or elder to escape as soon as possible;S4: climbs on to a tree.S3: Ok. I think S2 seems the most likely, so it is her turn.S2: What are you likely to do if the house catches fire?(Actions) S1: fetches some water;S3: tries to put it out with blooms;S4: runs away as quickly as he can.S2: Ok. I think S4 seems the most likely, so it is his turn.S4: What are you likely to do if you meet with a fierce dog?(Actions) S1: remains where he is and bends down, looking at the dog;S3: tries to scare it away with small stones;S4: runs away as quickly as possible.S2: Ok. I think S1 seems the most likely, so we all have done a good job.T: Yes. I couldn’t agree with you. Now, one more group.Step V Role Play (Speaking task on P67)T: Now, there’s still a little time left. Let’s come to Speaking Task on Page 67.Step VI Homework1. Team work: Discuss the importance of body language.2. Go over the Reading:1) Communication: No Problem?2) Showing our feeling.T: I think you must have known something about these pictures. Yes, they are from a program of CCTV, the Evening Party Celebrating the Spring Festival of 2005, the coming Lunar New Year of the Rooster. I think that was the best program. Do you remember the name of this program?The Second Period Reading (I)Teaching goals 教学目标1. Target language目标语言a. 词汇和短语major, local, represent, curious, Columbia, introduce, approach, touch, cheek, stranger, spoken, express, action, Jordan, nod, general, avoid, comedyb. 重点句子Yesterday, another student and I , representing our universit y’s student association, went to the Capital International Airport to meet this year’ international students.…I saw several young people enter the waiting area looking around curiously.She stepped back appearing surprised and put up her hands, as if in defence.2. Ability goals能力目标a. Enable the students to realize the importance of body language.What is the purpose of language?What is the purpose of body language?How can you tell if someone is sad even if they do not speak?How can you communicate a feeling to someone who does not speak your language?b. Enable the students to understand the text.Where are the visitors from?How do Mr. Garcia from Columbia and Julia Smith from Britain response when they are introduced to each other?What do Mr. Cook and the Japanese visitor do as they are introduced?How can people express themselves besides their spoken language?Do all cultures greet each other the same way?Do English people and other Europeans act the same when they first meet?Is a handshake very common in Japan?Is a kiss often used in France when people meet?Why are there different kinds of body language?c. Enable the students to retell the text in their own words.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标Help the students learn how to explain the common idea—“different culture s, different body languages” with the target language in this unit.Teaching important points 教学重点How does body language differ among people from different cultures?Teaching difficult points 教学难点The understanding of the poorly-written reading text, especially the relationship awkwardly built up between “you” and the other people in the text, who are met by the awkward arrangement of the compilers of the textbook.Teaching methods 教学方法Skimming method, task-based method, role-play method.Teaching aids 教具准备A recorder, a projector and a computer.Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式StepⅠRevisionFree talk about the topic: the Importance of Body Language. While the student on duty gives the presentation, the teacher can simultaneously approve his or her performance by using the body language learned or familiar to the students such as nodding the head, stretching out the hand with thumb up, shrugging the shoulders, etc.Step ⅡPre-readingT: Our text is about a special means of communication—Body Language. Now please look at the screen. And discuss these questions with your partner first. And then some of you will be asked to report your work. Are you clear?Ss: Yes, sir/madam.After a few minutes.T: Now who’d like to answer the first question? V olunteer! S1: Let me try. The purpose of language, of course, is to be used as a tool of communication. That is, to exchange with others ideas, feelings, information, and so on.T: Perfect! Body language is used anytime and anywhere to convey people’s ideas, feelings, information, and so on and so forth. Next question?S2: Even if they don’t speak, I can tell if they are sad bylooking at their facial expressions. I’m a good mind-reader. (Smiling)S3: Yes, that is quite easy. Just by watching their frowned brows, their long faces, we know that they are unhappy.T: Very good. We have got two “mind readers”in our class; I’m sure there are morethan two! Now who’d like to give the answer to the third question?S4: Let me try, Sir / Madam. I’ll try to use body language to tell the other what I need urgently. I’ll do it by miming, by any proper posture, or gestures, even by drawing pictures.T: You are smart! Now who’d like to do the last one. It is more challenging, right?S5: I’d like to have a try, sir. Last summer I went on a study tour in the States. When I was on the way toLos Angeles on the flight of the United Airlines, we stopped at Tokyo / Narita Airport in Japan for 3 hours. So I went into the shop at the airport, for I wanted to buy a digital camera. Of course I knew no Japanese, so I spoke to her in Chinese first and then in English. It seemed that she was at a loss when I spoke to her. Then I decided to try it in body language. I just pointed to the camera that I like most-Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P100. The salesgirl spoke to me in Japanese this time but I couldn’t understand a word of it. So I shook my head and kept pointing at the camera. Finally I reached her understanding and she took out the camera I wanted to buy. I examined it for a little while and asked her the price of it by drawing a big “?” in the air with my forefinger. She took out her calculator and put in the price. The price was reasonable and I decided to take it. I paid for it and the salesgirl bowed to me again and again. T: Wonderful! Thank you for telling us so interesting a true story and giving us so good an example of body language.Step ⅢWhile-reading1. ScanningWhile reading, please try to divide the whole passage into several parts and find out the main idea.Part 1 Para 1You are sent to Capital International Airport to meet this year’s international students.Part 2 (para. 2 and 3 )Examples of learned or cultural “body language”.Part 3. (para. 4 )Different peoples have different body languages.Part 4. (para. 5)Summary of body language.Read the text carefully, then decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F).•Englishmen often stand close to others or touch strangers as soon as they meet.•Most people around the world now greet each other by kissing .•Japanese will bow to others as greeting.•People from Jordan will move very close to you as you introduce yourself to them.•Some body languages in some countries are good while some countries’ body languag e are bad.Step IV Post reading1. Is the author of this passage male or female? How do you know ?The author is male. Ahmed Aziz will not shake hands with women, but he shakes hands with the author.2.What were the two mistakes that the author noticed?He noticed that the Colombian man kissed the British woman, but in her culture, a kiss from a stranger is not acceptable. He also noticed that the Japanese man bowed just as the Canadian man started to shake hands, so one man’s nose touched the other man’s hand.3. Who seemed to prefer to keep more physical distance from others? Who seemed to prefer closer physical distance ?The British woman, Julia, and probably the Canadian man, George, seemed to prefer to keep more physical distance from others. The Colombian man, Tony, and the Jordanian man, Ahmed, seemed to prefer closer physical distance .4. Did any students have similar greeting customs? If so, which ones?Yes. Tony from Colombia and Darlene from France had a similar greeting custom-a kiss. George from Canada and Ahmed from Jordan also had a similar greeting custom-a handshake, but Ahmed shakes hands only with men.5. “ When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” What do you think this famous saying means?This saying means that when we are in a certain place, we should follow the customs of the people who live in that place, not our own customs.6. Do you agree with the author’s statement that body language is not good or bad? Why or why not?Students will give their own answers.Step ⅤHomework1. Get ready to retell the text in your own words.The Third Period Reading (II)Teaching goals 教学目标1. Target language目标语言a. 词汇和短语unspoken, facial, function, at ease, lose face, turn one’s back to, fist, subjectiveb. 重点句子Body language is one of the most powerful means of communication, often even more powerful than spoken language.2. Ability goals能力目标a. Enable the students to know more about body language.What is the function of body language?What is the similarity of body language?How can you understand the universal facial expression “smile”? Does “a smile” always mean the same thing?What is the difference of body language between various cultures?b. Enable the students to understand better body language.What is the proper attitude towards body language?What would happen if we knew nothing about body language?3. Learning ability goals 学能目标How we can “show our feelings” with the body language learned in this unit or gained in our social life.Teaching important points 教学重点How body language shows the same or different feelings among people from differentcultures.Teaching difficult points 教学难点How to tell that the same body language shows different feelings in different cultures. Teaching methods 教学方法Fast reading: dealing with the “true” or “false” questions.Discussion: the importance of body language.Teaching aids 教具准备A recorder, a projector and a computer.Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式StepI Pre-reading1. What is the function of body language?2. How do you find body language in our daily life?3. How can the same body language express different feelings or ideas in different cultures?4. How can different body language express the same feeling or idea in different cultures?Step II Fast readingTURE OF FALSE1. Body language is never as powerful as spoken language.2. If you are angry at a person, you might turn your back to him or her.3. You can threaten a person by refusing to speak.4. You should not greet your new boss by giving her or him a hug.5. Body language is the same all over the world.6. Most people can understand each other if they try.Then ask the students to do it one by one and ask them to explain why some of the statements are wrong.Step III Further readingT: We have just read a passage entitled “Showing Our Feelings”, which tells us more about body language. Now let’s read another passage in the Workbook on P66. The title of the reading text is: The Open Hand - A Universal Sign. You will be given 3 minutes to read through the text as quickly as you can, trying to get as much information from the text as possible.Ss: Yes, Sir.T: What information have you got?S1: More about body language, sir. We have learned how people are communicating or getting along with each other besides using spoken language. We are also asked to think about some new situations in which we will communicate in body language.S2: And we have to think about the following questions: It is known that a smile is a sign that people feel friendly and happy. But we have to consider: 1. What if we don’t know who the new person is? 2. What if we are not introduced by a friend? 3. What if we are meeting a stranger in an unfamiliar place?S3: And the most important of all is that we have to makesure whether we can trust people we do not know, and we have to show that we are not dangerous.S4: Quite true. We have different ways to show our hands —our open hands, which means that we are not armed and we are friendly.S5: In many cultures today, the Western custom of the handshake is used. Besides this, traditionally, Chinese greet others by covering the left hand with the right hand and bowing; the Japanese cover on hand with the other and bow slightly or quite low, depending on whom they greeted; Hindu people join their hands in front of their faces and bow their heads; Muslims will touch their heart, mouth and forehead to show respect.S6: Now young people in the West give each other the “high five”when they clap each other’s hands in the air.S7: You have taken the words out of my mouth. And I believe that in almost all cultures, to smile and show an open right hand is the most common way to show the goodwill greeting.T: I am more than happy to hear you can get so much information from the passage when you do the reading! Now let’s act out some of the gestures in the reading material, OK?Some students are asked to act out the body language which appears in the reading text is: The Open Hand - A Universal Sign, such as a handshake, the traditional greetings in China, the Japanese way to greet people, the ways Hindu people and Muslims use to greet people, and the way young people in the West use now. Several minutes later.T: Before we come to the end of this period, let’s take up the last item, doing the arrangement of the information under the passage on Page 67.S8: It can be dangerous to meet people you do not know.S9: Many Asian people do not usually physically touch strangers.S10: If we show an open hand, it means that we are not holding anything dangerous. S11: The right hand is usually used because it is almost the stronger.S12: People shake their hands when meeting to show that they can be trusted.S13: To show respect, people will touch their heart and mouth when greeting someone.Step IV Homework1. Read aloud all the reading texts in this unit.2. Get ready to retell the two reading passages learnt in this period.The Fourth Period GrammarStructure Study一: V-ing 形式由“do＋ing” 构成, 其否定形式是“not doing”, V-ing 可以带宾语或状语构成V-ing 短语, 没有人称和数的变化, 但有时态和语态的变化。