新课程标准高中英语必修四 Unit 4 Body language

　　第一课时 精读课 学案

　　Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading

　　一．学习目标

　　1．预习本课时中出现的重难点单词和短语。

　　2．阅读课文了解不同国家的文化差异以及身势语在人们日常生活中所起的重要作用。

　　二．知识重难点

　　1．知识重点：培养阅读能力，尤其是推理判断和概括能力

　　2．知识难点：学会如何运用不同的阅读技巧

　　三．背景知识

　　What is body language? Body language is an important media through which people communicate with each other. It refers to the patterns of facial expressions, body movements and gestures that people use to express their meanings and feelings in communication.

　　Body language, which has been used frequently and widely in all kinds of areas of education, is the movements, gestures and expressions that teachers often use in teaching activities. It directly affects a teacher's teaching efficiency and level, as it is known that what or how the teachers say or do will be possibly imitated by the students, sometimes subconsciously. A teacher's proper body language in teaching not only helps to improve the students' artistic appreciation and moral character but also to motivate them to study the subject the teacher teaches, and to form an active and optimistic learning desire.

　　The affection of teachers' body language on the students can shorten the teacher-student estrangement, by which a more harmonious studying atmosphere is created. As a matter of fact, teachers' friendly appearance of body language can greatly encourage the students' studying enthusiasm，especially for the young learners. Furthermore, the characteristics of theory and abstraction of knowledge also requires the vivid, dramatic and accessible gesture to make it specific and figurative. As a result, the students' interest is motivated and the effect of teaching is greatly improved.

　　The direct teaching method in foreign language teaching system particularly emphasizes that we should avoid using mother tongue and translation．Instead, we should use such direct ways as movements，expression setting，and substances to replace the function of using mother language and translation. By doing that we can establish a "direct" bridge between meaning and language form itself.

　　四．课前预习

　　翻译下列单词和短语

　　1. 陈述；说明n. 2. 飞行；航班n.

　　2. 交流；传递n. 4. 问候；迎接n.

5. 代表；象征vt. 6. 好奇地adv.

　　7. 接近；靠近v&n. 8. 保护；保卫vt.

9. 主要的 10. 面颊