The Third Period Reading (II)

Teaching goals 教學目標

1. Target language目標語言

a. 詞匯和短語

unspoken, facial, function, at ease, lose face, turn one’s back to, fist, subjective

b. 重點句子

Body language is one of the most powerful means of communication, often even more powerful than spoken language.

2. Ability goals能力目標

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 學能目標

How we can “show our feelings” with the body language learned in this unit or gained in our social life.

Teaching important points 教學重點

How body language shows the same or different feelings among people from different cultures.

Teaching difficult points 教學難點

How to tell that the same body language shows different feelings in different cultures.

Teaching methods 教學方法

Fast reading: dealing with the “true” or “false” questions.

Discussion: the importance of body language.

Teaching aids 教具準備

A recorder, a projector and a computer.

Teaching procedures & ways教學過程與方式

1 Pre-reading

1. 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?

2 Fast reading

TURE OF FALSE

1. 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.

3 Further reading

T: 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 make

sure 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.

Homework

1. Read aloud all the reading texts in this unit.

2. Get ready to retell the two reading passages learnt in this period.