Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Unit 4 “ Watch your BODY Language!”

Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Contents 1. Before Reading 2. Global Reading 3. Detailed Reading 4. After Reading Learning Process

Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Warming up Activities Background Knowledge Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Warm up questions: What is body language? Types of body language Functions and role of body language Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading ```` ```` ```` ```` ```` ```` ```` ```` ```` ```` Before Reading Mr. Bean

Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading What is Mr. Bean doing in this movie clip and how do you know it? Watch the movie clip and answer the question: Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading What is body language? a form of non-verbal communicationnon-verbal includes a whole range of non-verbal signals. express our feelings and attitudefeelings and attitude Tips: Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Verbal Communication Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Non-verbal Signals Posture Eye contact Posture Body distance Facial expression Body contact Gesture

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Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Body Language It’s not what he said, but the way he said it. There is language in her eyes, her cheeks, her lips. - William Shakespeare Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Case studies: You are going to see some pictures that show different kinds of body gestures or postures. Based on your experience, what kind of feelings or attitude might be conveyed by these gestures or postures? Before Reading

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Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading both-hands-behind-head Confident Superior Before Reading “One day you’ll be as smart as I am.”

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Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading arm-cross Defensive and negative Uncertain or impatient Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading You will be given a situation. Student A uses his/her body language to show how a person might be feeling in this situation. Student B, without knowing the situation, describes student A’s body language while he/she tries to figure out the situation at the same time. Act it out with your body language

Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading In a job interview Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Time for thinking Is our body language a universal language? Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Universal body signals smile

Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Symbolic gestures: culture specific gestures are learned in a social environment do not have universal and invariable meaning Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading A story: a Chinese in an American company Beckoning gesture

Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Gesture Things are OK? American: OK Japanese & Korean: Money Latin A. & German: obscenity Tunisian: “I’ll kill you.” Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Gesture Thumbs Up means: (based on 1,200 informants at 40 locations) OK 738 One 40 Sexual Insult 36 Hitch-hike 30 Directional 14 Others 24 Not used 318 Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading A positive or negative signal? --It depends on where you are from! Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Different cultures may use different gestures for sending the same message. The same gesture can have different interpretations in different cultures. A harmless gesture in one culture is likely to be an unintentional insult in another. Before Reading

Global ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Our text “Watch your Body Language” is such an article about how cultural differences in body language can cause certain misunderstandings or even conflicts. Now let’s go to the text itself. Before Reading