Unit one Body Language—Reading
Lesson Plan: session one
Teaching Aims:
Through this lesson, students are expected to
Knowledge objectives
1. get the general idea of the passage.
2. know some basic body languages and their applications.
3. grasp the meaning of some key words and expressions. .
Ability objectives
1. develop reading skills .
2. improve students’ speaking ability by group discussion.
Emotional objectives
1. encourage students to communicate by various means, especially body language.
2. make students more confident when communicating.
Teaching focus: The whole lesson will focus on the comprehension of the whole text and the
function of body language.
Teaching difficulties: to encourage students to use body language to aid them when communicating
in English.
Teaching Aids: Multi-media
Teaching Procedures:
Stages Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Purposes
Warm up
(photo
illustration)
Teacher elicits the topic by
showing students some
photos of people from
different culture expressing
their feelings using body
language.
Sts give their opinions on
how they explain these
feelings and what makes
them draw such
conclusions.
To arouse Sts interest and elicit
the topic.
To encourage Sts feel the
power of body language.
Pre-reading
(students
experience)
Teacher invites Sts to come
to the front and pose for the
others.
Other students should
guess what the student
means or feels.
To let students try to use body
language and feel its power.
While-reading
(question,
skimming,
listening,
summarizing)
1) Teacher asks Sts to read
the whole text for the first
time and get a general idea of
the story.
2) Teacher asks Sts to skim
the text and asks what, when,
where, why and how
questions.
3) Teacher asks Sts to listen
to the recording of the whole
text and finish exercisesD.
4) Teacher asks students to
define Debbie’s and Simon’s
body language and then
analyze the different effects
of their body language.
1) Sts read the whole text
and understand the basic
plot of the story.
2) Sts skim the text find
out the details of these
questions.
3) Sts close their books
and listen to the recording,
then they open their books
and finish comprehension
exercise D
4) Sts summarize two
different kinds of body
language.
1) To let students get the plot
of the story and think about the
difference of Debbie and
Simon.
2) To get Sts to have a better
understanding of the whole text
and think about the difference
between using body language
and not using body language.
3) To have Sts focus on
detailed information and find
out some key sentences that
describe the function of body
language.
4) To echo and summarize the
topic of the whole text.
Post-reading
(Discussion)
Teacher invites Sts to share
in groups the way to improve
their body language.
Sts have group discussion
on what to improve and
how to improve their body
language.
To encourage Sts to apply their
body language to their daily
communication.
Assignment 1. Ask students to find out more body language of different countries through Internet and
give the whole class a short report tomorrow.
2. Review the key words and expressions in the text.
reflection Students show great interests in the topic but find it hard to express their feelings even after
the teacher gives some advice on how to use body language, our topic, to serve as their
assistant. So, some basic expressions of facial expressions and gesture may help a lot and
should be taught beforehand.
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