Gestures
Gestures are a great tool to incorporate into your lessons. They are a great way
to reinforce what you’re saying to your students non-verbally; visual cues are
always appreciated. And you can give encouragement and help to your students
without interrupting. Take a few minutes to think about how you can use
gestures to demonstrate the terms below to your students.
                                                          Not
    Past        Future      Talk more      Close                      Sit down
                                                     quite/almost
                            Take out
   Get in        Next                      I can’t     Take out a
                              your                                     Faster
   groups       person                    hear you       pencil
                           homework
Example:
Future – point forward, maybe tap wristwatch then point forward to highlight
difference in time.