Working in collaborative groups, students develop story making and characterisation skills through exploring/ developing a scenario in which gestures are the main vehicle of communication, and share it with their peers.
a) Ask students to find a standing space, feet apart, relaxed.
b) Ask students to show a series of emotions in turn without words, purely from body posture and facial expression: anger, disappointment, hunger, fear and want.
c) Ask students to experiment with doing the following by gesture alone: calling someone over, rejecting somebody’s closeness, giving directions, avoiding somebody’s eyes, expressing disapproval.
d) In pairs, A demonstrates displeasure towards B with no words, B doesn’t care.
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