Unit 1. Communication. Body language.

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The theme of the lesson: Unit 1. Communication. Body language.

Type of the lesson: Generalization and systematize the knowledge and method of activity

Aims: 1) Educational aim:

- To form intercultural-communicative skills in the frame of the sphere and theme;

- To activate their background knowledge in order to help them predict likely vocabulary in a given authentic text;

- To improve students' own ability to organize discourse.

2) Development aim:

- To develop students' critical thinking skills: - identifying central issues

- expressing problems clearly

- understanding cause and effect

- predicting consequences

- To develop perception, logic, imagination, and creativeness.

3) Upbringing:

- To teach the students how to behave themselves.

- To educate young people to be honest, truthful, open- hearted

- To teach students to be on friendly terms with their classmates

Materials: CD, Slide show, Presentation Microsoft Power Point, Quiz show, pictures

Source: CD, dictionary, English in mind (Upper), Mini – Dictionaries (Macmillan)

Procedure

1. Org. moment

2. Warm up: Let’s begin our lesson from using our bodies. What does it mean?

• It means you should explain a given sentences with a mime.

Bite your nails Blow your nose Brush your teeth

Clap your hand Comb your hair Fold your arms

Hold somebody’s hand Nod your head Shake your head

Raise your eyebrows Shake hands Shrug your shoulders

1. Check up home task: you had some words to learn, from the page 112, they are:

To reply in a rude way to someone you should be polite to – to talk back

To say things which silly and true – to talk nonsense

To talk about a particular subject- to talk + noun

To talk about important thing – to talk shop

An expression used to emphasize the adjective you are using – to talk about + adj.

To speak more loudly, so that other people can hear – to speak up

To say something which you quickly see is not true – to speak too soon

To say strongly and directly what you think about smth. – to speak + adj

To not speak to sb. because you have had an argument – not be on speaking terms

Can’t say anything in a foreign language – can’t speak a word of + language

1. Presentation: We are going to talk about the difference between tell and say:

Say and tell
tell is usually followed by a person (the listener)
He told me about his family.
say is not followed by a person
My mum said that I can go.
If we want to add a listener, we can use say something to someone
Did she say anything to you about it?

Look at the slide, let’s decide some quiz questions.

1. a. I’d like to tell you about where I live
b. I’d like to tell about where I live
2. a. We told to the police everything
b. We told the police everything
3. a. What did he say you then?
b. What did he say then?
4. a. Most people said the film was terrible
b. Most people told the film was terrible
5. a. They didn’t say their parents about it
b. They didn’t tell their parents about it.
6. a. I had nothing to say him
b. I had nothing to say to him

Take your student’s book and open the page 15. Let’s do the ex. 7

1. Answers: a. tells b. say c. tell d. say e. says

2. 1. Said goodbye 2. Say thank you 3. Saying sorry 4. Say it out loud 5. Say it again

1. Practice:Isolation and explanation.

Now, I’m going to give you a sheet of paper with the sentences about using bodies, you have to match them with the pictures and find out what our bodies we use in such kind of situations:

1. She winked at me to show that she was only joking. ____

2. The steak was tough and difficult to chew. _____

3. When we met, we were so happy we hugged each other. _____

4. Don’t scratch the mosquito bite. You’ll only make it worse._____

5. She waved goodbye sadly to her boyfriend as the train left the station.___

6. Some women think a man should kneel down when he propose marriage.____

7. The teacher frowned when she saw all the mistakes I had made._____

8. The painting was so strange I stared at it for a long time.______

9. She got out of bed and yawned and stretched.______

10. If you don’t know the word for something, just point at what you want.______

Listening skills: Open the page 16, look at the text, it was your home task to read and translate. I would like to check your listening skill. Close your books let’s listen to this text about animals’ communications.

Talk to the animals

Before the listening tasks:

1. How can we communicate?

2. Is it important for animals to be able to communicate?

While the listening tasks:

1. Only people – a. to send messages to each other. b

2. The way dogs bark – b. speak using words. c

3. The way bees dance around – c. to give warning, to be friendly or to be playful. a

4. Humans hear low sounds – d. like the ones people can hear. e

5. Sounds which have a higher pitch – e. like the bass notes in music. d

6. They obviously heard a warning – f. the mother elephants ‘talking’ to their babies. g

7. This is infrasonic communication – g. call from a long way. f

After the listening parts:

Student’s book: page 16 (c)

1. Follow up activities: Writing: So, look at the exercise 12 on the page 17. Let’s read to the Indira’s composition about her friend.

To write an essay about: “My friend”. Use Indira’s composition to help you.

Let’s have some Idioms about our bodies:

Idioms:

1. Could you give me a _____ with my homework?

2. You really put your ___ in it when you told Mark that Jane had been married before.

3. You can’t be serious. You must be pulling my ____.

4. I can’t remember her name but it’s on the tip of my ____.

5. I’m not sure I want to go climbing now. I’m starting to get cold ____.

6. The test is on Friday. I’ve got butterflies in my ____.

7. When Miriam left David, she broke his ____.

8. I can’t get that song out of my ____. I keep whistling it.

9. You need to learn the irregular past tenses by ___.

10. I need to tell somebody about it and get it off my ___.

VII. 1. Evaluation :

Reflex ion:

Teacher's concluding talk: Dear students! Our lesson has just finished. All the pupils worked hard and they showed their best knowledge. Thank you for coming and taking an active part in our open lesson. For today's work everyone got an excellent mark.

• How did you like our today’s lesson?

VIII. Home task. W/b: p. 9 ex. 3 (d) Ex. 4 texts retell