Body Language阅读课教学说课稿

How to Teach the Reading Material

I．The analysis of the teaching material

The topic of this Unit is about Body Language and non-verbal Communication,  Body language plays a very important part in people’s communicating with others. In fact we have already known something about body language, as we have been using it a lot every day. Yet we can help the students know how people in different countries greet each other in their daily life by learning this reading passage.

This reading passage is an exposition which introduces how people in different countries greet each other.

Through this reading passage we must make the students bear in mind it is very important to know the meanings of gestures and movements in the country.

(By learning this reading passage, I can help the students to achieve the following goals, so let’s go to the second part :

II. Teaching aims:

1. Knowledge objects (The knowledge objects of learning this passage are to…)

Enable the students to learn different greetings around the world

Help the students to know body language is also very important in communication

2. Ability objects: (The ability objects of learning this reading passage are to…)

Improve the students’ reading ability.

To develop students’ communicative ability.

3. Moral objects: (The moral object of learning this passage is to…)

Help the students to know that when we are in a foreign country, we must pay attention to their body language. Following the customs will help us communicate with people and make our stay there much more pleasant and comfortable.

III. Teaching important points:

---get to know the the structure of the passage

---how to improve the students’ reading ability by skimming’ scanning and careful reading                             

IV. Teaching difficult points:

---how to get the students to grasp the main idea and the key words of each paragraph as quickly as possible

---how to finish a task: act out different ways of greetings and discribe  the performance                          

V. Teaching aids:

   Multi media computer                    

 VI. Teaching methods:

1.      Communicative Approach

2.      Task-based teaching approach

3.      Multi-media assistant teaching approach     

VII. Teaching procedures:

Step 1: Lead -in:

In order to arouse the students’ interest in the reading passage and make them eager to know the importance of body language and different ways of greetings in different countries, I will give the students a performance without saying anything first then ask the students to guess what my performance is about. After the performance I will ask the students why they can understand me .This can be used to be a bridge leading to--Skimming.

Step 2: Skimming

 Doing fast reading is a good way to train the students’ ability of getting information within very short time. First I will ask the students to look through the passage and choose the best title for the passage. Second students are asked to find out the main idea of each paragraph. This is also a good way to train the students reading comprehension especially the ability of understanding about the layout of this reading. After the students are aware of the structure of the reading passage, I will give the students enough time to read the text. Then go to step 3—careful reading.

Step 3: Careful reading

In oder to help the students understand the passage better, I will deal with the reading passage paragraph by paragraph. For paragraph one, ask the students to Fill in the blanks .For paragraph 2—paragraph 4 I will ask the students to finish a table

For the last paragraph I will ask the students to remember body language is fascinating and people can give away much more by their gestures than their words.

Step four: Questions    . 

So in order to make the students understand the passage better I will ask the students to raise two questions based on Paragraph 2, both beginning with “why…?(students may raise questions like Why do Europeans and Americans use their right hands to greet others ? And why does every culture has developed a fromal way to greet strangers?

As the students know the whole reading passage better, I will go to finish the next task: Step five: Performance        Some students will be asked to come to the front to act out how people in the countries mentioned in the passage greet each other. While the students are performing ,others have to figure out which countries they are from and describe their performance in English.(While they do this, they have to use the information from the passage again, so this is also a good way to go over the whole reading.)           

 Step six: Discussion (Work in groups of four and tell each other)     

Is body language important for us students? WHY?

 After the students’ discussion , a representative from each group may demonstrate their results to us. This is a good way to train students’ ability of team work.

After that, I will give the conclusion that students must remember it is important to learn some information about body language,since we are learnig English, we must know a lot about body language of English native speakers, so that we can communicate with them better some day. Even between students and teachers ,body language is also important when we are having lessons we can use our body language more to communicate instead of using words.

Then at last I will assign the homework:

Find out more ways of greeting in the different cultures

VIIII. The design of the blackboard:

The title of this reading passage is on the top of the blackboard. Divide the blackboard into 2 parts. The left part is for some key words, while the right part is for the screen.