Learn Body Language
Non verbal communication?
I need to do a project for college where you have to draw or build something (not allowed to use any words) but it has to be easily recognised by everyone who sees it. I need some ideas, can anyone help me please? As an example, last year projects included raining cats and dogs. Its a bit like catch phrase lol
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- Okay just read your additional info and it makes a bit more sense. How about a picture of...lots of cooks around a pot, pulling Yuck/sad faces... "Too many cooks spoil the broth."
- There is a technique called TPR - meaning Total Physical Response. I teach English to foreign students (currently working in Taiwan). With students who don't know a single word, teachers have to use TPR, for instance: I want to get students to stand up - no matter how many times I say it they just won't get it... until I stand up and motion with my hands to stand up (a combination of verbal and physical signals). It can however be done with just the physical prompts - i.e. you just mime. Drawing is a very very effective way to get a point across. If you're not particularly good at art; never-mind, you only need to draw very simple diagrams to get a point across. If it's a project with steps, you can write down a number for each step and a diagram next to it (remember to keep the diagram as simple as possible). If you're stuck for diagrams - just ask me, I have an art degree that's collecting dust.
- Draw a mother & baby looking lovingly at each other - shows love.
- A paper plane
- Erm, doesn't non-verbal mean not speaking, i.e. the written word is acceptable? Been a while since I was in education, but pretty sure that was the case.
- How about drawing footprints with charcoal - literally, a 'carbon footprint' (as charcoal is just basically carbon I think)? If you wanted to take this further you could have different footprints representing different countries of the world, and they could vary in size depending on the size of each country's carbon footprint.
