Teaching Aims and Demands

Words and Phrases

Four Skills: unfair customer avoid ahead manage fold vary crazy part handshake gently anger useless occur focus

ahead of give sb. a hand get through tear down hold up make a face in order

Three Skills: suitcase firm bow fist tap specific bend

Spoken English:

Making offers and requests

Can /Shall I help you with that? Could you help me with…?

Would you like me to…? Do you need some help with that?

Could you please … ?

No thank you. Thanks for all your help.

Would you like some help?

No, thanks. I can manage it myself?

Could you give me a hand with this?

That’s very nice of you.

Is there anything else I can do for you?

Grammar:

V-ing作主語、賓語和表語 （2）

1. 用英語表達(dá)“做某事如何的”--V-ing形式作主語:

Talking while eating is not polite.

2. 有些及物動(dòng)詞后面需跟V-ing形式作賓語:

You can’t stop him doing what he wants.

3. 絕大多數(shù)介詞后面需跟V-ing形式作賓語:

She left without saying goodbye.

4. 用英語表達(dá) “什么事是某事” --- V-ing形式作表語:

Seeing is believing.

Use of Language:

Help the students to finish the tasks of listening, reading, writing, speaking presented in the book and the exercise book through using what the students have known. Learn the text Body language. Get the students to feel the culture lying with the body language.

Important points:

Feel the culture difference among different body language.

Difficult points: The use of V-ing.

Teaching aids: Computer, tape-recorder

Way of Teaching: The communicative teaching approach.

Lesson1

Step 1 Warming Up

Tell the students to look t at the pictures and match each picture with the correct emotion and sentence.

The answers are:

Picuure 1 Confused I don’t know what to do.

2 Angry I can’t believe she said that! That’s so unfair!

3 Sad I have lost my wallet!

4 Happy I got an A in my exam!

5 Tired It’s been a long way. I can’t keep my eyes open.

Then ask the students to give more examples of facial expressions. Then ask the students:

Are all the facial expression easy to understand?

Can the same facial expression mean differently in different situations?

Ask the students to give more examples.

Step 2 Listening

Tell the students that they are going to hear about ways that people use body language in different situations. Then check the answers. The answers to Part 1: D B A. The answers to Part2: B B.

Step 3 Consolidation

Ask one student to act the ideas in Part 2 out with gestures and facial expressions. Then ask the other students to guess what the actions mean in their own words.

Step 4 Speaking

First ask the students to read the example in the Speaking part, then students work in pairs and act their dialogue out.

Step 5 Homework

Finish the exercise in the students’ workbook.

Lesson2

Step 1 Revision

Ask the students to act their dialogues.

Step 2 Presentation

Ask the students to act out the following body language:

Thank you! NO. Yes. In don’t know. Come here!

Are always mean the same meaning?

Note: There are both cultural, regional, and individual differences in how we communicate what we think and feel with our bodies.

Step 3 Reading

Ask the students to read the text carefully and then find the main idea of each passage.

They are:

1. Both words and body language can express how we think and fell.

2. Gestures, a kind of body language, have different meanings in different cultures.

3. The way people greet each other varies from culture to culture.

4. Some gestures, however, have the same meaning in most cultures.

5. Smiles may be the most commonly understood facial expression in the world.

Step 4 Language points

1. Names of different fingers: thumb(大拇指), index finger/forefinger(食指), middle finger(中指), ring finger(無名指), little finger(小拇指).

2. A smile can help us get through difficult situations and find friends in a world of strangers.

Get through sth. (設(shè)法)做完某事

I have got through a lot of work to get through.

Let’s start; there’s a lot of work to get through.

3. Shaking your fist at someone is a way of saying that you are very angry.

at “向;朝;以---為目標(biāo)”

She opened the door and stood there, frowning at me.

He threw a stone at the dog.

Step 5 Listening

Get the students to listen to the text.

Step 6 Post-reading

Ask the students to work in groups and finish the chart in this part.

Step 7 Homework

Go over the following text and finish the exercise on P121.

Lesson 3

Step 1.Revision

Check the homework.

Step 2 Word Study

Finish the exercise 1 2 on P120 as a test on the vocabulary.

And then complete the box on P61 and the exercise 2 , Make sure the students know what they are expected the do.

Step 3 Grammar

1. First ask the students to find the V-ing form in the text.

2. List the sentences on the blackboard and then divide them into three groups according to the part the V-ing plays.

Subject In many countries, shaking one’s head means “no” and nodding means “yes”.

Object We can learn a lot about what a person is thinking by watching his or here body language.

Predicative A way of saying “I am hungry” is patting the stomach before a meal.

Step 4 Practice

Finish the following exercises.

Step 5Homework

Finish the exercises in the workbook.

Lesson 4

Step 1 Revision

Check the homework.

Step 2 Presentation

Show the students some pictures of Shuanghuang to get the students to have a general idea about this kind of art form. Make sure they really understand what it means. Then ask the students to work in pairs to act their plays out.

Step 3 Reading

Ask the students to read the text on P122 in the students’ workbooks. Then finish the exercise---to fill in the chart.

Homework

Prepare a short passage about your opinion about the body language.