湖南省蓝山二中高中英语《M3 Unit2 Task 》教案 牛津版必修3

Skills building 1: anticipating a response

The aim of this part is to train you to anticipate responses when you are listening. As is often the case, Sometimes people’s predication depends on their purpose in listening and people may expect a related answer to the question which has been asked. However, you should remember that even if you have the knowledge of cultures and customs of different countries and you know the answer, you should continue listening for confirmation.

1 Let’s discuss in small groups. Please think about your past experience and find out if you notice any behavioral differences between Chinese people and Westerners. Then please report the results.

2 Read the guidelines on page 32 to learn how to predict the answers to the questions while listening.

3 Read statements 1 to 9 on page 32 first to decide if the statements are true or false. Then listen to the interview to confirm your predicted answers.

Answers

1 T 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 T 6 F 7 F 8 T 9 T

Tapescript

Professor: I’ll be speaking about some gestures today. Much of today’s lecture will be surprising to you, so you may want to take notes.

Some of the most common American gestures have very different meanings in other areas of the world. Take the handshake for example. In America, a strong, firm handshake shows a confident person, someone you can trust, a good leader, but people might be surprised in Asia and the Middle East where they prefer a much looser handshake. Other American gestures are considered very rude in other countries, such as direct eye contact. To an American, eye contact shows that someone is telling the truth or is interested in what he or she hears. But if you lived in parts of Asia or Africa, people might be offended.

There are many chances for you to be confused by gestures and body language when you travel. Nodding your head up and down for‘yes’and shaking your head from side to side for ‘no’mean the opposite in parts of eastern Europe. The same applies to waving your hand left to right for hello and goodbye. This can mean ‘no’in Asia and parts of Europe! If you go to Argentina, you might be offended and think someone is calling you crazy when you see them point at their head or ear and move their first finger in a circle. Although this means someone or something is crazy in America, in Argentina, it just means that you have a phone call!

If you want to get someone to come over to where you are, you might hold your hand, with the palm up and fingers facing in, and curl your first finger in and out. But don’t do that in Asia, because it isn’t very polite.

The last gestures I want to talk about are what we call ‘thumbs up’and the ‘OK’sign. If you close your hand and hold up your thumb, this gesture is used in many countries, but it means the number one in Germany and Japan instead of ‘good job’like it does in America. If you make a circle with your thumb and first finger, and point the other three fingers up, you are saying ‘yes’or that something is okay if you are in America. But in France it means zero, in Japan it means money, and if you are in Brazil or Germany, it is very rude!

So you see, gestures are a big part of body language and can change from country to country. This means it is very important to ask people what they mean if you aren’t sure. Body language and spoken language are not meant to be understood by themselves. When we put them together, that is when we can make our meanings most clear.

Answers

(1) good (2) telling the truth (3) Yes (4) No (5) Hello or goodbye

(6) crazy (7) where you are/your place (8) good job (9) OK

3. Let’s do listening on page 104 in Workbook to improve your listening skills.

Skills building 2: formulating written questions

The activities in the section aim to help you write questions clearly and accurately.

1.Read guidelines on page 34 to make sure you know what to do. Think about why these questions should be asked like that.

2.Complete the rest two questions in Skills building 2 on page 34.

Answers

2 Last night, we watched a television show on CCTV 8. Did you see it? If so, did you like it?

3 I finished a book last night. How about you? What happened in the last book you read?

Step 2: surveying your classmates

In this part we will use what we have practiced in Step 1 to talk about different gestures.

Please read the guidelines and the situations below and try to fill in blanks on page 35.

Sample answers

5 You and your friends are taking photos in a park. You are posing and your friend is holding a camera. After a flash, your friends holds his hand with fingers pointing up and palm facing out. Index finger and thumb make an ‘O’.

a He is saying ‘OK’.

b He is asking you to pose again.

Other:

6 Your daughter and you are going shopping. You want to buy a new skirt for your daughter. You pick up a blue one and show it to her. She shakes her head from side to side. Then you pick up a red one. She nods her head up and down. Your daughter

a likes the blue skirt.

b is satisfied with the red skirt you chose.

Other:

7 All of your family are enjoying a big dinner on Mid-Autumn Day. After the meal, you lean back and pat your stomach with the palm of your hand. You mean:

a Oh, I am full. It’s quite delicious.

b I have got a stomach-ache.

Other:

Sample answers

1 a 2 b 3 a 4 a 5 a 6 b 7 a

Skills building 3: organizing a report

In this part you will learn how to organize information for a report properly and how to sort it into four main sections.

sections.

3. Let’s go over the guidelines, and check our answers, and then number them in the logical order.

Answers 8 4 2 6 3 5 1 9 7

Step 3: writing a report on body language

In this part you will write a report on body language based on the information we have collected in steps 1 and 2.

1. Please read the guidelines on page 37, so you will have what should be written in mind.

2. Please review the results you have collected and record the answers by using the form in Part 1.

3. Let’s go over each step suggested in Part 2 and write the report.

Sample answers

In this report the writer talks about body language used in both China and the United States. It looks at how the same gesture is used in the two different countries and how the gesture expresses different meanings in the two countries. It also states the similarities and differences of body language in these two countries. The information was collected from my classmates through a survey. In order to conduct the survey, I created some situations and answers for some common gestures for my classmates to respond to. After collecting their answers, I recorded their answers and analyzed the statistics.

From the outcome of my survey, we can see that for most of the gestures, people in both countries share the same meaning, as with the gestures of the head nodding up and down, the head shaking from side to side and thumbs up. There are also some differences in the meaning of some gestures. For example, there are differences in the meaning of the gesture of waving, when the palm faces out and the hand moves left and right. In the USA it means ‘Hello’, but in China it means ‘No’, a negative answer. Nowadays, some young Chinese also use this gesture to greet others. So with the increase in cultural, educational and economic exchange between the two countries, the differences in body language between the two nations will become smaller and smaller.

These results suggest that people from different cultures more or less can understand each other by using these gestures. It seems that in the future we can make full use of body language to help us convey our ideas or feelings when we talk with foreign friends.

湖南省蓝山二中高中英语《M3Unit2Task》教案牛津版必修3