Unit 2 Language Task

Skills building 1 Anticipating a response

Try to find out some behavioral differences between Chinese and westerners

Understand how to predict the answers to the question while listening. Information you expect to have Question Where do they live? name of a place When did this take place? a specific time How long have they been in this country? a time period left or right hand Which hand do Arabs eat with? Why would you like to write a book about customs? A reason or reasons

Listening Decide if the statements below are true or false, and then listen to the interview to check your answers.

Check the answers: 1.T 2.F 3.F 4.F 5.T 6.F 7.F 8.T 9.T

Step 1: filling in a chat Listen and fill in the chart Answers: good 2.telling the true 3.Yes No 5.Hello or goodbye crazy 7.where you are(you place) 8. good job 9.Ok

Skills building 2: formulating written questions Get to the point! Remember the following points when writing questions Get to the point! Give all the necessary information. Use simple language

Sample answers 2.Last night, we watched a television show on CCTV8. 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 1.a 2.b 3.a 4.a 5 You and your friend are taking photos in a park. You are posing and your friend is holding a camera. After a flash, your friend holds up 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 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:______________________________

Skills building 3: 8 4 2 6 3 5 1 9 7 Organizing a report Answers Organize the sentences below into the appropriate sections. write the correct numbers in the boxes. Answers 8 4 2 6 3 5 1 9 7

Step 3:Writing a report on body language

Introduction Procedures/Method Results/Findings Conclusion

Sample answers This report is about body language used in both China and the United States. It looks at how the same gesture is used in 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 situation sand 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 'N0.', 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.

Homework Unit Revision: Periods 7 & 8. Preview Project.

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