高中英语必修四Unit4-period5-listening-speaking-and-writing课件.ppt

1、ListeningListening task on page 62Look at the pictures below.What do you suppose the listening will be about?Read these sentences and listen to the tape.Decide whether they ate true or false.1 Chimps and humans have the same body language.2 Jane says that smiling makes chimps look more friendly.TF3

2、Humans always shout when they feel angry.4 Both chimps and humans want to feel safe and protected.5 We often show affection when we like someone.TTF1.Why do both humans and chimps smile when they are nervous?Listen to the tape again and answer the questions.Use your own ideas as well as the informat

3、ion on the tape.Because they hope an enemy will not hurt them.2.What things do both humans and chimps do to make themselves look dangerous and frightening?List two of them.Both humans and chimps stand up,and try to make themselves look bigger and more frightening by waving their arms around or stand

4、ing over the others.3.What do both humans and chimps do to make their babies feel safe?Both humans and chimps hold their babies and hug and kiss them to make them feel safe.4.How do bigger chimps make the small ones feel safe?Do humans do things like this?Bigger chimps make the small ones feel safe

5、by touching them or kissing and hugging them.Yes,humans will do things like this if they want to make their children feel safe.HUMANS AND CHIMPS Do you remember Jane Goodall and her study of chimps?One of the things she reported on was how similar chimp body languages is to human body language.Liste

6、ning text When we humans are worried or frightened,we sometimes smile in a nervous way.Chimps also look as though they are smiling when they are nervous,perhaps to make them look friendly so an enemy will not hurt them.When we are angry,we often stand up,take a deep breath and put our hands on our s

7、ides to look bigger and stronger.We sometimes move close to another person and stand over them to make them fell smaller.We might shout loudly to frighten someone.When chimps are angry they also stand up and wave their arms around.They often walk quickly,throw things about and make noise.They are tr

8、ying to make themselves seem bigger and more frightening.Chimps and humans want to feel safe and protected,so both chimps and human mothers hold their babies and hug and kiss them.Young chimps and children also love to play and enjoy each others company.A similar thing is true for adults.We humans h

9、ug and kiss each other to show that we accept and love someone.When a powerful chimp frightens others,the smaller chimps will bend down or hold their heads low.They will hold out their heads as if they want to be friends.The bigger one will touch them or kiss them and hug them to make them feel safe

10、.So what do you think?Are we like chimps or are chimps like us?Listening task on P65Look over the pictures below and try to guess what they are communicating from the body language you see.Listen to the tape and number the pictures in the correct order.5 1 3 2 4 6 Work in pairs.In the pictures,what

11、differences did you notice between Western an Chinese body language?Can you n think of some other examples of differences?Prepare to show them to the class.LUNCH WITH A FRIENDSHEN LEI:Hello Julie!Sorry Im late.The traffic was terrible.JULIE:Thats OK.I just arrived.Be careful-the steps are wet.Dont s

12、lip!Shen Lei is meeting Julie,her Canadian friend,at a restaurant.Listening text SHEN LEI:Thanks.Lets go in-its raining.JULIE:Oh,look at the beautiful decorations and flowers.Is it a special holiday?SHEN LEI:No,but its a new restaurant,so the flowers are here to give congratulations to the owners an

13、d for good luck.JULIE:What do you mean when you say“good luck?”Do you mean good luck to make money or good luck for other things?SHEN LEI:Its for good business in the restaurant.Now please come over here.JULIE:Do you want me to sit down here?Oh,come and look at the fish.SHEN LEI:We could have some,i

14、f you like.JULIE:How much is the Mandarin fish?It looks very fancy.SHEN LEI:It is a little expensive,but its excellent.I think its about thirty-eight yuan.JULIE:What does that mean?It looks like you are pointing a gun at the waitress.SHEN LEI:We use our fingers to show numbers.Dont you?JULIE:Yes,but

15、 not like that.We use our fingers for numbers one to nine,but nothing bigger.We wouldnt use our fingers to say“thirty-eight”.The two friends have a big lunch,and when they are finished,they are full.They have eaten too much.JULIE:Whats the matter?Do you have a stomachache?SHEN LEI:No,I just ate too

16、much.JULIE:Im full too.I always eat too much in Chinese restaurants.JULIE:Yes,it was a really good meal!Work in groups of four.For eachsituation on page 67,each groupprepare a role play.Two studentsmust act without speaking.The other two students must explainwhat is happening.A few sentencesare give

17、n to help you get started.Look through this unit and other resources for examples of the differences in Chinese and Western body language.Note them down.Then create a information sheet that can be used by Chinese or Westerners to help them avoid problems in misunderstanding body language.Write a rep

18、ort in which you discuss the differences you have found.Focus on the ones you find usual,funny or difficult to understand.Give reasons for why we should learn more about body language in different cultures.I have seen more some unusualdifferences in different cultures body language.Some gesture were

19、 quite unusual,others were just very funny and a few werevery difficult to understand.I saw many kinds of strange body language on music videos.Sample writingOften the singers body language does not fit the word at all.For example,their faces sometimes look as though they are in pain when they are s

20、inging about love.The poses are not what people would really do if they were saying those things.Some differences in body language are very funny.One American teacher was confused when he spoke to his Chinese student.The boy looked at the ground and moved around nervously.The teacher thought the stu

21、dent was guilty of something,because in America this behaviour means you feel guilty.However,the student was not guilty,but was just showing respect for his teacher.Some kinds of body language Ifound very difficult to understand.I once saw a TV programme on politics.After every few words,the speaker

22、 raised her hands and bent her fingersbeside her face.I later found out that she waspretending to quote what someone else had said.At the time.however.Her body language actually made her speech more difficult for me to understand.We need to learn more abut body language from other cultures,so we can have better understanding of each other.The more we learn about each other,the better we will get along.1.Give some examples of what you have observed in the body language of others.2.Suggest some jobs in which body language is very important.Homework