Non-Verbal Communication Charades (Student game) Goal: To recognize the importance of facial expressions, body language, and gestures when communicating. The time required for this game is 15-20 minutes, with the group size being 25 or less. Materials needed for the game are the paper cards or slips from the next page, cut into individual pieces. Mix and count into two sets of the same number of paper slips (12). The teacher explains to the group (or reviews with the group) the difference between facial expressions, gestures, and body posture. The class can have volunteers demonstrate examples of each type of non-verbal communication. When the game is introduced, the object of the game is to guess the correct expression, gesture or body posture being acted out by the designated team member. The teacher divides the class group into two teams. Each team is given a set of the 12 papers. The teacher then states: Please select 5 expressions, gestures, or body postures that would most likely stump the other team. Please also choose a captain or leader of your team and five volunteer actors the five slips (non-verbal gestures) which you have chosen to try to stump the other students. The teacher then collects those selected five slips from each of the two teams. Do a coin toss to see which team goes first. Hand the slips back to the designated captain/leader for the team. Allow 60 seconds for five volunteer actors to act out the assigned non-verbal communication. Keep score. 10 points for each correct guess. For the guess to be correct, it must include the type of non-verbal communication and the phrase or word being communicated. For class discussion after the game:

• Which types of non-verbal communication were the easiest to act out? • Which types of non-verbal communication were the easiest to guess? • How about the hardest non-verbals to guess? Identify those. • What happens to communication when someone’s words say one thing, but their non-verbal language says

something else? Give an example of that.

ACCESS Facial Expressions, Gestures, and Body Postures Teacher: Duplicate and clip these apart into two mixed stacks of 12 for two teams.

Q: Enim neo velit adsum odio, multo, in

commoveo quibus premo tamen.

A: Occuro uxor dolore, ut at praemitto

opto si sudo, opes feugiat iriure validus.

Sino lenis vulputate, valetudo ille abbas

cogo saluto quod, esse illum, letatio

conventio. Letalis nibh iustum

ransverbero bene, erat vulputate enim

dolore modo. Loquor, vulputate meus indoles

iaceo, ne secundum, dolus demoveo interdico

proprius. In consequat os quae nulla magna. Delenit

abdo esse quia, te huic. Ratis neque ymo, venio illum

pala damnum. Aptent nulla aliquip camur ut

consequat aptent. Adipiscing magna jumentum

velit iriure obruo vel.Volutpat mos at neque nulla

lobortis dignissim conventio, torqueo, acsi roto

modo. Feugait in obruo quae ingenium tristique

elit vel natu meus. Molior torqueo capio velit loquor

aptent ut erat feugiat pneum commodo vel obruo

mara duis enim consequat genitus. Enim neo velit

adsum odio, multo lorem ipso mata irlosa.

Directions

Facial Expression—Bored

Gesture--Everything’s Okay

Facial Expression—Tired

Gesture-- Come on

Facial Expression—Angry

Gesture-- Stop

Facial Expression—Pleased

Gesture—That’s enough

Facial Expression—Sad

Gesture—Tell me more

Facial Expression—Confused

Gesture—Wait a minute

Facial Expression—Interested

Gesture—Go away

Facial Expression—Sorry

Body Posture—I’m interested.

Facial Expression—Excited

Body Posture—I’m bored.

Facial Expression—Guilty

Body Posture—Don’t call on me.

Facial Expression—Shocked

Body Posture—I’m nervous.

Facial Expression –- Mischievous

Body Posture—I’m confident.