Body Language sites

GAIL'S 10TH GRADE
BODY LANGUAGE UNIT

Computer work for Gail's 10th graders This unit combines several ideas: body language, facial expressions, gestures, pantomime and the famous comedian Charlie Chaplin.

YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

You and your partner have to choose at least 2 sites about body language. You must create a document in Word to hand in for a grade, so be careful about your grammar and spelling!
Write down the title of each site, it's address and a summary of the information you found.
Describe what you learned from each site.
Finally give your opinion of each site--whether other people can learn from it or enjoy it and why!

Here are some sites suggested on the topic of BODY LANGUAGE. Check them all out and do this assignment.

Brazilian Body Language
The Nonverbal Dictionary
Emotion Show
Japanese Gestures

Criteria
Content – wrote a summary about two sites with title and address of both	YES	NO
Vocabulary – used correct vocabulary	YES	NO
Punctuation – used capital letters, periods, etc.	YES	NO
Language – used tenses correctly	YES	NO
Presentation – wrote a summary with at least one paragraph for each site (with at least 5 sentences, including a topic sentence); if approprate, used a picture	YES	NO

Finally, print it or save it to give to your teacher for a grade.

YOUR NEXT ASSIGNMENT:

1. Look at the letters on the sites below and see how others give advice.

HELP ME HARLAN
TEEN ADVICE
ASK LOLA

2. Choose a subject on one of these sites and then write your own letter of advice in Word to hand in for a grade--don't forget to use some MODALS (and SEMI-MODALS) too!

MODALS :

can
may
should
must
will
would

SEMI-MODALS:

able to
have to

We use these words to help give advice and tell other people what to do.

3. Look at this table to check your work:

Criteria

Content – wrote a paragraph that gave advice to a teenager YES
NO

Vocabulary – used correct vocabulary YES
NO

Punctuation – used capital letters, periods, etc. YES
NO

Language – used tenses correctly YES
NO

Presentation – made a letter with at least one paragraph
(with at least 5 sentences, including a topic sentence);
if appropriate, used a picture YES
NO

4. Finally, print it or save it to give to your teacher for a grade.

Practice this grammar on one of these GRAMMAR SITES

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Criteria
Content – wrote a paragraph that gave advice to a teenager	YES	NO
Vocabulary – used correct vocabulary	YES	NO
Punctuation – used capital letters, periods, etc.	YES	NO
Language – used tenses correctly	YES	NO
Presentation – made a letter with at least one paragraph (with at least 5 sentences, including a topic sentence); if appropriate, used a picture	YES	NO

GAIL'S 10TH GRADE BODY LANGUAGE UNIT

GAIL'S 10TH GRADE
BODY LANGUAGE UNIT