Unit 4 Body languange Period 3 Extensive Reading

The General Idea of This Period

　　This period aims at training the students' reading skill.The students have to get the general idea of how body language expresses our feelings.Having read the two articles,the students are expected to sum up the functions and similarities of body language.What's more,the students are encouraged to express their feelings with body language.

Teaching Important Points

　　Develop the students' reading skill to get all the needed information.

　　Train the students' abilities to express their opinions of why body language is important.

Teaching Difficult Points

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

Teaching Methods

　　Reading skill directing.

　　Task-based activity.

Teaching Aids

　　A tape-recorder,a projector,some slides and a multi-media computer.

Three Dimensional Teaching Aims

Knowledge and Skills

　　Train the students' abilities to know more body language.

　　Enable the students to sum up the functions of body language.

　　Train the students' abilities to express their opinions on why body language is important.

Process and Strategies

　　Get the students to learn about the functions and similarities of body language.

　　Necessary explanation to help them get the main idea of the passage.

Feelings and Value

　　Body language is an important non-verbal communication.Learning about the meanings of some body language in different cultures and applying it properly is of great help to our daily communication.

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Review and check the homework