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Body Language. Middle School Attached to Qufu Normal University Kong Beibei. Communication: No Problem?. Listening. Try to get the main idea of this text while listening. What is the main idea of the text? There are different customs in different countries.
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Body Language Middle School Attached to Qufu Normal University Kong Beibei
Listening Try to get the main idea of this text while listening. • What is the main idea of the text? • There are different customs in different countries. • Foreigners should follow the customs of the country where they are visiting. • People use body movements to send messages and different body movements have different meanings. • The importance of knowing customs.
Reading Match the people with their different ways of greeting. moves close to the men and shakes hands; nods at the girls. Tony Garcia (Columbia) shakes hands and kisses others twice on each cheek. Julia Smith (Britain) bows. Akira Nagata (Japan) approaches others closely, touches their shoulder and kisses them on the cheek. George Cook (Canada) Ahmed Aziz (Jordan) shakes hands. does not stand very close to others or touch strangers. Darlene Coulon (France)
Games Rules The whole class is divided into eight groups with each line as one. Stand up and turn around. You mustn’t turn back until the one in your group who stands behind you calls you. Only the first one can look at the paper and act out the meaning through body movements, others copy it one by one. The last one should guess the meaning of the body movements.
Free talk Discuss in groups with your foreign friends in English about any topics you are interested in. Try to use the body language when you don’t know how to express yourself properly.