You sit before a beautiful sunset. It speaks a message of fallibility and beauty. But it doesn’t use any words.
You are walking in a green valley. A message of gratitude and purity is echoing through it. But it doesn’t need any words.
There is a clear river flowing. It is whispering a message of tranquility, purity, change. But not a single word needs to be said.
Yet here we are , always trying to use words. Trying to squeeze the mightiest truths into them. That is why we are not really communicating much at all. Thus, I choose the activity linked below to indicate the importance of body language in the classroom and in our daily life :
https://www.usip.org/public-education/educators/speaking-without-words
While people may say that someone “wears their heart on their sleeve,” in reality, they’re much more likely to be wearing it on their face. A number of studies have shown that people are able to recognize emotions with a high level of accuracy just based on a brief glimpse at a person’s face so words, sentences are having a close relationship with body language and facial expressions.
In a peacebuilding concept, we can freeheartedly point out the fact that ‘manners maketh man’ and bodily and facial expression constitutes a great part of manners in a society.So bringing this activity to the classroom will help us to raise awareness on effective and kind speaking in a community.
This activity may be enriched by bringing classroom some sentences that will be understood differently depending on the manner of pronuncing, expressing them and this make students to better understand how body languge affects the meaning of the expressions.