Teaching Design

王建萍

一、Analysis of Teaching Contents

The title of reading is “COMMUNICATION： No Problem？” which comes from the material of English compulsory four，Unit4——Body language.It includes five paragraphs，422 words and tells the story about the students from different countries greet differently，causing some misunderstanding when they see the first time.

二、Analysis of students

The students already have a basic understanding of body language.Although their levels are different，they have a strong desire to learn.However，they dont have a universal understanding about the background of different cultures.

三、Teaching Aims

1.Knowledge aims

a.Grasp the main idea of the text.

b.Grasp important new words，expressions and sentence structures.

2.Skills aims

a.Enable students to understand and express certain body language of different cultures.

b.Cultivate students different reading skills such as word guessing，skimming and scanning.

3.Emotion and attitude aims

a.Stimulate students interests in learning body language.

b.Develop students ability of cooperative learning.

4.Cultural consciousness aims

a.Let Students accept and respect the culture of different countries.

b.Improve students interest in foreign culture.

四、Teaching focus and teaching difficulty

1.Teaching focus

a.Let students know the main idea of the passage.

b.Let students understand body language used in different countries.

c.Let students know how to express and act their feeling with body language in different countries.

2.Teaching Difficulty

a.Enable students to realize the importance of body language in communication and deal with the difficulties in intercultural communication.

b.Enable students to act body language appropriately in intercultural communication.

五、Teaching methods

Question and answer，individual work，pair work and group work，Task-based method，communicative method and PWP approach.

六、Teaching Tools

Blackboard，PPT

七、Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Warming up

See some pictures on the screen and guess the meanings of them.

Design purpose：Pictures can stimulate students interest and they can get more understanding of body language through discussion.

Step 2 Pr-reading

T：There are three questions on the screen.Lets look at the first question together.And then finish the rest of the questions，you can discuss with your partners.And some of you will be asked to report your work.

Design purpose：It can activate students background information and arose their interest，making them participate in the topic.Besides，it also exercises students abilities of expressing themselves and improves their imagination.

Design purpose：

Improve students skill of reading and let students grasp the main idea at first.Under teachers instruction，students can do the right match of each part.

2.Scanning

（1）T or F.（two minutes）

（2）Complete the chart in groups.

Design purpose： Improve students scanning skills.Two tasks can remind students of the detailed information，increase their motivation and awareness of cooperation and strengthen their ability of cooperation.Scaffolding can reduce the difficulty of the tasks.

Step 4 Post-reading

Now suppose you prepare for an interview，what shall you pay special attention to？ Discuss with you partners.（6 minutes）

Design purpose