高中英語必修4Unit4教案

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 ⅴ homework
1. get ready to retell the text in your own words.

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.