新世纪英语专业综合教程(第二版)第4册Unit2优质PPT.ppt

1、Body language is very important,but often complex and easily misunderstood.3.What does this story tell us?Pre-reading Activities-Audiovisual supplement 2Audiovisual supplementCultural informationFrom Secret of Body LanguageVoiceover:But body language is often complex,and easily misunderstood.Here,Pr

2、esident Clinton leads the Israeli and Palestinian leaders Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat up before the press during peace negotiations.Its all smiles for the cameras,but behind the faade of bonhomie,theres a power struggle going on.Clinton jokingly explains that none of them will take any questions.Cl

3、inton:We promise to each other we will answer no question and offer no comments,so I have to set a good example.Voiceover:The body language then reveals just why that works.Expert A:Wow.Its almost a physical fight.Video Script1Audiovisual supplementCultural informationVoiceover:Many view this appare

4、ntly light-hearted tussle as a sign that Arafat and Barak were getting on well.Think again.Expert A:There is a great meaning behind who goes through the door first.Now of course here in the West,letting someone through the door first doesnt really matter.Polite maybe.But in the Middle East,it has si

5、gnificant cultural impact.Expert B:The host,the power person,says,“Im in control.Ill help you through the door.Ill show you the way.”Arafat:Thank you.Thank you.Voiceover:Throw in the fear and tension present in most Middle East negotiations,and suddenly,the desire of Video Script1Audiovisual supplem

6、entCultural information both Arafat and Barak not to go through that door before the other starts to make sense.Expert C:This is a classic example in its extreme way of how the last man through the door is the winner.So Barak reaches for Yasser Arafat.Arafat literally grasps his arm,moves on,and sta

7、rts wagering his finger at Barak,who,then,Barak,uses this opportunity as a wrestling match to move around,to actually be behind Arafat,and then literally grasps Arafat,holds him by the arm,and shoves him through the door.Expert B:So youve got fear and power struggle,showing in big big big big bold b

8、ody language with it.Video Script1Audiovisual supplementCultural informationPersonal space can be imagined as a kind of bubble surrounding a person that protects his or her privacy and which other people may not normally enter.Allowing somebody to get very close and enter your personal space may be

9、a sign of trust or love.On the other hand,intruding others personal space can be rather offensive.The amount of space people need to feel around them varies with various factors,such as culture,sex,familiarity between people,crowdedness of the situation,etc.For example:Cultural information 1Audiovis

10、ual supplementCultural information people from cultures that like a lot of personal space feel awkward and embarrassed when somebody comes too close to them;people of the same sex may sit or stand closer to each other than to somebody of the opposite sex;strangers and casual acquaintances usually ne

11、ed more space than friends and members of the same family who know each other well;in a noisy street people may need to stand closer than they would normally,simply in order to hear each other.Cultural information 2Audiovisual supplementCultural informationStructural analysis In the text,the writer

12、first points out the fact that nowadays people are more concerned about themselves and want to have a larger personal space than decades ago,and then he analyzes the causes of space invasion.The text can be divided into three parts.Part I（Paragraphs 1 2）:The writer calls the readers attention to the

13、 invasion of personal space by relating an experience of how his personal space was invaded.Rhetorical featuresStructural analysisPart II（Paragraphs 3 7）:The writer analyzes some likely causes of the shrinkage of personal space,and attributes the invasion of personal space to the general decline of

14、good manners.Structural analysisRhetorical featuresStructural analysisPart III（Paragraph 8 9）:The author presents his view about the essence of personal space,i.e.it is psychological,rather than physical,and urges people to“expand the contracting boundaries of personal space”.Rhetorical Features 1 A vivid and accurate description of the behaviour of the space invaders and those whose personal space is being invaded is achieved by a delicate selection of verbs.Some of the examples are as follows.Rhetorical featuresStructural analysisa man started inching toward me （Paragraph 1）I