视听说第六册教师用书 Unit 6
Nonverbal Communication in Interviews
Nonverbal communication is as important, or even more important, than verbal communication. The evaluation of your nonverbal communication will start as soon as you walk into the company's lobby and continue until the interview is finished.
Turn off your cell phone before you enter the building. Talking on the phone during an interview is not only disruptive, it's rude. Prepare for the Interview
Prepare answers to typical interview questions in advance, so you're comfortable responding.
Job Interview Body Language
It's important to make eye contact with your interviewer and to focus on the question. Stay relaxed, but do not laugh or crack jokes at inappropriate times. You should show personality, but don't overdo it because you're nervous or over-eager.
Relax and lean forward a little towards the interviewer so you appear interested and engaged. Don't lean back or slump in your chair. You will look too casual and relaxed. Keep your feet on the floor and your back against the lower back of the chair. Pay attention, be attentive, and look interested. Focus on the interviewer, and don’t get distracted.
A polished and professional image is what is going to get you to the next stage of the hiring process, a second interview or even a job offer. Thanks for watching. To learn more, visit us on the Web at About.com.
Task 1 Viewing for Information
Directions: Watch the talk once and choose the best answer to each of the
following questions.
Check the answers: 1. A 2. B 3.C
Task 2 Viewing for Details
Directions: In this talk, Alison Doyle gives us several tips on how to speak
through appearance and body language in order to create a positive impression. Watch the video clip again and write down the tips mentioned.
Check the answers: 1. Dress professionally
2. Utilize non-verbal communication 3. Avoid interruptions 4. Come prepared
5. Maintain body language
Task 3 Oral Practice
Directions: Work with a partner and use the clues given below to re-create two paragraphs. Student A does the first paragraph, while Student B listens and checks it. Then change roles and continue with paragraph two.
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1. According to some studies, body language comprises 55% of the force of any response, whereas the verbal content only provides 7%, and paralanguage, or the intonation -- pauses and sighs given when answering -- represents 38% of the emphasis. To maximize the perceptions you communicate, you want to use these non-verbal impressions to your advantage.
2. It's important to make eye contact with your interviewer and to focus on the question. Stay relaxed, but do not laugh or crack jokes at inappropriate times. You should show personality, but don't overdo it because you're nervous or over-eager.
Part 4 Follow-up Activities ACTIVITY 1 LISTENING TO LEARN
Task 1 Listening for Information
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the
passage is read for the first time, listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, fill in the blanks numbered 1 to 8 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered 9 to 11, fill in the missing information, using the exact words you have just heard or your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, check what you have written.
Tapescript:
On Language
When each of you in this room were born, there were 6,000 languages spoken on the (1)planet. Now, a language is not just a body of (2)vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. A language is a (3)flash of the human spirit. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed, a thought, an ecosystem of spiritual (4)possibilities.
And of those 6,000 languages, as we sit here today in Monterey, fully half are no longer being (5)whispered into the ears of children. They're no longer being taught to babies, which means, (6)effectively, unless something changes, they're already dead. What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in (7)silence, to be the last of your people to speak your language, to have no way to pass on the (8)wisdom of the ancestors or anticipate the promise of the children? And yet, (9)that dreadful fate is indeed the plight of somebody somewhere on Earth roughly every two weeks, because every two weeks, some elder dies and carries with him into the grave the last syllables of an ancient tongue.
And I know there's some of you who say, \wouldn't it be better? (10) Wouldn't the world be a better place if we all just spoke one language?\\And you'll suddenly discover (11)what it would be like to be unable to speak your own language.
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Task 2 Oral Practice
Directions: Look carefully at the following cartoons and topics, then pick one of
them. Present a three-minute speech on it before your class. Try to use as many as possible of the useful expressions and ideas that you learned in this unit.
Teaching Tips
? Put the students into groups and ask them to prepare for this part before class. ? Encourage students to use the Internet and other resources. ? Evaluation is necessary after the students’ presentations.
ACTIVITY 2 VIEWING TO LEARN
Task 1 Viewing for Information
Directions: Watch the video On the World's English Mania. Then answer the
three questions below. Background information:
Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- \
Video Transcript：
On the World's English Mania
Let's talk about manias. Let's start with Beatle mania. Hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium. Sports mania. Deafening crowds. All for one idea: Get the ball in the net. Okay, religious mania. There's rapture. There's weeping. There's visions. Manias can be good. Manias can be alarming. Or manias can be deadly. The world has a new mania. A mania for learning English. Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it. Teacher: ... change my life! Students: I will change my life.
T: I don't want to let my parents down. S: I don't want to let my parents down.
T: I don't ever want to let my country down. S: I don't ever want to let my country down. T: Most importantly ... S: Most importantly ...
T: I don't want to let myself down.
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S: I don't want to let myself down.
Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Two billion of them.
Students: A T-shirt. A dress.
JW: In Latin America, in India, in Southeast Asia, and most of all in China. If you are a Chinese student you start learning English in the third grade, by law. That's why this year China will become the world's largest English speaking country. (Laughter) Why English? In a single word: Opportunity. Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table. Imagine a student taking a giant test for three full days. Her score on this one test literally determines her future. She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare. 25 percent of her grade is based on English. It's called the Gaokao. And 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test. The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable. Unless you witness it.
T: Perfect! S: Perfect! T: Perfect! S: Perfect!
T: I want to speak perfect English. S: I want to speak perfect English.
T: I want to speak -- S: I want to speak -- T: perfect English. S: perfect English. T: I want to change my life! S: I want to change my life!
JW: So is English mania good or bad? Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages? Not likely. English is the world's second language. Your native language is your life. But with English you can become part of a wider conversation. A global conversation about global problems. Like climate change or poverty. Or hunger or disease. The world has other universal languages. Mathematics is the language of science. Music is the language of emotions. And now English is becoming the language of problem solving. Not because America is pushing it. But because the world is pulling it. So English mania is a turning point. Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a better future. A future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems. Thank you very much. (Applause)
Check the answers: Questions 1. What does a new mania refer to? 2. How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? 3. According to the speaker, this year China will become the world's largest English speaking country. Why English? Answers A craze for learning English. Two billion of them. Because English offers opportunities for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table.
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Task 2 Oral Practice
1. Directions: Read the following dialogue and discuss with your partner about
Language Learning according to the key points listed in the box.
Dashan’s Feelings about Language Learning
Zhao Wei: You have been in China for so many years, what’s your feeling about living in China? Do you enjoy it?
Dashan: Well, actually, I lived in China full time for 7 years, from 1988 to 1995. But now since 1995, I live half in Canada and half in China. I really enjoy that, because I enjoy my work in China and my friends and everything here. But I also enjoy Canada. So I find the best thing for me is to go back and forth, because that way I can continue with my career here and have my normal life in Canada where nobody recognizes me. For me, both of those together are really the best combination.
Zhao: I think Chinese people are more familiar with you speaking Chinese, but our magazine needs you to speak English. So it’s lucky for us to hear your English this time. I just wonder which language do you speak more in your daily life, Chinese or English?
Dashan: It’s hard to say, because sometimes it depends on what you are doing, whom you are talking with and what subject you are talking about. But I find talking about something very Chinese is difficult to do in English. And also from the opposite way, sometimes trying to explain something about western culture in Chinese is difficult too.
Zhao: You are considered a successful foreign language learner, could you share with us your experience in learning foreign languages?
Dashan: I studied Chinese for 4 years in my university in Canada. I think one of the things my teacher did very well was to get away from traditional textbooks as soon as possible. We used the standard textbooks for the first 2 years, because you have to learn the pinyin, you have to learn the basic characters and basic grammar. For those things, textbooks are the best, because they are very scientific. Everything is nicely arranged for you to learn in order. But language itself is not like that. In many ways, it’s not really a very scientific thing. I think many people in China who study English have a mistake. They try to use very scientific methods to study something that itself is very unscientific.
Key Points in Discussion feelings about living in China depend on
experiences in learning foreign languages
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