1. Unit 4 Body Language

2. gestures
facial expressions
postures

3. Act them out with body language
warming up
Let’s play a guessing game.
Act them out with body language

4. Action show

5. Pre-reading
There are many different ways to greet someone using words. How can you greet someone if you cannot speak? Share with your ideas with your partners.
someone whom you know
someone whom you meet just
for the first time

6. Communication: No Problem?
Reading
Communication: No Problem?
What is the topic of the text?
What dose the text mainly tell us?

7. Communication: No Problem
Reading
How do different international students behave when they greet people? Complete the chart with information from the passage.

8. Shake hands and kiss twice on each cheek
Name
Description
Body language
To whom
Tony Garcia
everyone
No touching
Man from Japan
George Cook
Shake hands and kiss twice on each cheek
Man from Colombia
Kiss on the cheek
Julia Smith
Woman from Britain
everyone
Akira Nagata
bowing
everyone
Man from Canada
Shaking hands
everyone
Ahmed Aziz
Man from Jordan
Shaking hands
Nodding
to men
to women
Darlene Coulon
people she knows
Woman from France

9. Ways to greet each other Britain Canada Japan
Country/Area
Ways to greet each other
Britain
Canada
Japan
Spain, Italy, South American countries
France
(men from) Middle East and other Muslim countries

10. How they greet each other
Work in pairs and act out how these people from different countries greet each other.
How they greet each other
a Chinese & a Japanese
a British man & an Arab man(阿拉伯人)
a Canadian woman
& an Iranian man (伊朗人)
a Frenchman & a Brazilian (巴西人)
(They know each other.)
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4

11. Ways to greet each other
Country / Area
Ways to greet each other
China
Japan
shake hands
bow

12. Ways to greet each other
Country / Area
Ways to greet each other
Britain
shake hands
do not stand very close to others or touch strangers when they meet
(men from) Middle East and other Muslim
shake hands and stand quiet close to other men

13. Ways to greet each other
Country / Area
Ways to greet each other
Canada
shake hands
(men from) Middle East and other Muslim countries
nod to woman and do not shake hands with women

14. Ways to greet each other
Country / Area
Ways to greet each other
France
shake hands and kiss each twice on each cheek
Spain, Italy, South American countries
approach others closely and more likely to touch them

15. Post-reading
Discussion
Discussion of ideas
Discussion of style

16. Discuss the following questions in pairs.
1. Is the author of this passage male or female? How do you know?
2. What were the two mistakes that the author noticed?
3. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” What do you think this famous saying means?
4. Do you agree with the author’s statement that body language is not good or bad? Why or why not?

17. Discuss the following questions in pairs.
Is the author of this passage male or female? How do you know?
The author is male. Ahmed Aziz will not shake hands with women, but he shakes hands with the author.

18. Discuss the following questions in pairs.
2. What were the two mistakes that the author noticed?
He noticed that the Colombian man kissed the British woman, but in her culture, a kiss from a stranger is not acceptable. He also noticed that the Japanese man bowed just as the Canadian man started to shake hands, so one man’s nose touched the other man’s hand.

19. 5. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do
5. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” What do you think this famous saying means?
6. Do you agree with the author’s statement that body language is not good or bad? Why or why not?
This saying means that when we are in a certain place, we should follow the customs of the people who live in that place, not our own customs.

20. Discussion of style (文体)
Discuss in groups of 4:
1. Which writing do you like better? Why?
2. Can you figure out any similarities and differences between these two writings?
Communication:
No Problem VS
Body Language

21. Which you like better and why
Communication:
No Problem
Body Language
Which you like better and why
□______________________
□____________________
Similarities
Differences

22. Similarities
Topic: _______________
Point of view / Purpose: ___________
__________________________________
How does the writer develop his point of view?
_________________________________ …

23. Differences
Person (人称)
Language
Structure / Organization …

24. Body Language Sum up What do you learn about body language?
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What do you learn about body language?
Body Language

25. Homework
1. Try to find out the differences between western and Chinese body language and prepare to show them to the class.
2. Read the reading text aloud for some time until you can read it aloud fluently.
3. Find out some words, phrases and sentences in the reading text you like, learn them and share them with your partners.