Unit One Body Language What is body

Unit One Body Language

What is body language? It’s a language without any sound. Feelings and moods can be expressed by giving gestures.

What kind of body languages can we use? -----facial expressions -----gestures -----eye contact -----voice

I don’t know. Flying kiss to show love Fist up to show his objection Thumb up: Great!

Positive Body Language -----Smile -----Open Posture -----Forward Lean -----Eye Contact -----Nod

What other meaningful gestures can you make? How do you appear to people? Look energetic, confident, relaxed and neat

Text Comprehension I. True or false F F T 1. Debbie and Simon are officers who work in a travelling company. 2. When Debbie and Simon look up, they see a middle-aged , well-dressed man enter. 3. The customer chooses Debbie instead of Simon. 4. Simon is excited when he is not chosen to do the work. 5. Mr. Yang, a junior employee, comes to comfort Simon. 6. Mr. Yang points out that there’s something wrong with Simon’s body language.

T F F F 7. Simon decides to improve his body language. 8. Then a woman customer enters and chooses Debbie. 9. The woman is disappointed when she leaves. 10. The customer is actually Simon’s cousin.

II. Questions 1. Who are Debbie and Simon? What are they doing now? 2. What happened one day when they are working? 3. Why did Simon feel disappointed? 4. What did Mr. Yang tell Simon? 5. Is communicating just speaking and listening? 6. What is body language? 7. Why did Simon’s body language tell the customer to go away?

8. Why did Debbie’s body language make the customer feel welcome? 9. How did Simon improve his body language? What was the result? 10. Who came and what did she do? 11. How did Mr. Yang remark? 12. What did the beautiful girl come for?

Read the passage and define Debbie’s and Simon’s body language and the effect. Body language Simon rest his head on the hand; look downwards; never smile; not turn his head or body towards people Debbie hold her head up; look at people’s eyes; smile; Effects tell people to go away make people feel welcome

Language points 1. look vi. & link-v We looked everywhere carefully. Look at him jumping. It looks like rain. He looks careful/nervous. look up 抬头看，查阅 He looked up at the ceiling. When reading, we mustn’t look up every new word in the dictionary. look sb up and down 上下打量某人 The policeman looked the drunk man up and down before answering his question. look after/ for/ into/ out

work n. 作(u)，作品(c)，厂(pl. ) at work When I was his age I was at work day and night. in/ out of work He’s been out of work for months. This painting is one of Monet’s greatest works. The steel works is closed for holidays. v. to produce effect 奏效，起作用，运作 The clock hasn’t been working since I dropped it on the floor. Your idea/plan/method won’t work in practice.

work out 想出，算出，理解 We are working out a way to have a cheap holiday. Mary worked out a beautiful design for a sweater. Father is still trying to work out his tax. See if you can work this puzzle out. I can’t work out the meaning of this poem. No one can work out how the fire started.

hesitate: to pause before making a decision犹豫, 踌躇 Don’t hesitate when you’re crossing the road. She hesitated for a moment and then gave her agreement. Don’t hesitate to ask if you need any help. The government will not hesitate to take the severest measures against these terrorists. hesitation n. without hesitation 毫不犹豫 Without a moment’s hesitation, she jumped into the river after the child. I have no hesitation in recommending him for the job.

prefer: to like better (-rr-)宁愿，更喜爱 I prefer tea to coffee. So you prefer living abroad. He preferred swimming to running. I prefer to walk there rather than go by bus. *prefer A to B *prefer doing A to doing B *prefer to do A rather than do B They prefer camping outside to staying in hotels. =They prefer to camp outside rather than stay in hotels. preference n. 偏爱，更加喜欢 My son has a preference for meat rather than fish.

communicate vi. 联系，交流思想 We can communicate with people in most parts of the world by telephone/ e-mail. We learn a language in order to communicate. vt. 传达，表达，传送 You don’t communicate your ideas well in this essay. I asked her to communicate my wishes to you. My job is to communicate English knowledge to students. communication n. Communication with people who are deaf is difficult.

more than 极其，不止；超过，…以上 His report is more than a survey. They were more than glad to help. If I tell your father what you’ve done, he’ll be more than a little angry. more… than…与其说…不如说 He’s more mad than stupid. She’s known more for her wild private life than her acting ability.

expression n. 表达(u), 说法, 词语; 表情 This kind of homework gives students practice in written expression. “Shut up” is not a polite expression. He made use of a strange expression in conversation. She wore a surprised expression on her face. He had a rather curious expression in his eyes. express vt. 表达 Try to express your idea/opinion/gratitude clearly. I can hardly express how pleased I was to see him. The boy expressed himself well in debate. n. 特快(火车, 邮件) We returned by the midnight express.

impression. (c)印象, 感觉 The headmaster made a good/deep impression on the parents. make a good/deep impression on sb. The tsunami left a terrible impression on his memory. leave a terrible impression on sb. I didn’t want to give you any false impression. That would create/ produce a wrong impression on him. What’s your impression of her/ Shanghai? I had the impression that she chose her words with care.

impress vt. The film War of the Worlds impressed me very much/ deeply. The book didn’t impressed me at all. Jackson impressed me with his force and kindness. impress sb. with sth. 某事给某人留下深刻印象 I was deeply ~ed by/ with/ at his performance. be impressed by / with 被…深深打动；对…印象深刻

hold up 举起, 举着; 耽误, 使停顿 The pupil held up his hand to ask the teacher a question. The chair was too weak to hold up Mr. Smith. The traffic was held up by the accident. Thick fog held up a number of trains. We were held up for five minutes in a traffic jam.

seem link-v 好象, 似乎 The temperature seems (to be) lower than it was yesterday. She didn’t seem surprised at the news. Well, that seems not a bad idea. You seem in high spirits, Mary. It seems like years since I last saw you. vi. 好象, 似乎 He seems to have a high opinion of grandpa. I seem to have lost my keys. It seems that…好象, 似乎 It seems that nobody knew what had happened. There seems/seemed (to be)… 好像有 There seems to be something the matter with her.

remind 使想起，使记起；提醒 • • • remind sb. to do sth. Please remind me to finish my work. remind sb. of sth. It reminds me of my best friend. remind sb. that 从句 The sight of the clock reminded me that I was late. • She reminded me that I hadn’t written to mother.