1. Unit 2 Language
Task

2. Skills building 1
Anticipating a response

3. Try to find out some behavioral differences between Chinese and westerners

5. 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

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

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

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

9. 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

10. 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?

11. 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:_______________________________

12. 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: _______________________________

13. 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:______________________________

14. 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

15. Step 3:Writing a report on body
language

16. Introduction
Procedures/Method
Results/Findings
Conclusion

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

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

23. Good staying with you!
Thank you
The end !