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COM402 Week 9 Tutorial Worksheet

This document provides exercises and discussion topics about non-verbal communication. It includes short answer questions about appearance during job interviews and examples of non-verbal gestures. Students participate in role-playing activities where they must act out scenes and emotions solely through non-verbal cues, demonstrating how much can be communicated without words through body language, facial expressions, and physicality. The goal is to understand the power of non-verbal communication and how much judgment can be made about a person based on appearance alone.

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COM402 Week 9 Tutorial Worksheet

This document provides exercises and discussion topics about non-verbal communication. It includes short answer questions about appearance during job interviews and examples of non-verbal gestures. Students participate in role-playing activities where they must act out scenes and emotions solely through non-verbal cues, demonstrating how much can be communicated without words through body language, facial expressions, and physicality. The goal is to understand the power of non-verbal communication and how much judgment can be made about a person based on appearance alone.

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WEEK 8 TUTORIAL WORKSHEET: NON-VERBAL

COMMUNICATION
Exercise 1 Short Answers
1. Why must applicants give very careful consideration to their appearance
during a job interview?
2. Non-verbal communication has several categories. Discuss a few of them.
3. In our culture it is OK to stare at animals; rude to stare at people. Do you
agree?
4. Give an example of how you may have judged a person based on appearance.
Describe what they were wearing and how did you react to them.
5. "Dogs pee to mark their territory; how do you mark yours?"
6. Is it okay for a stranger to occupy an empty seat at your table, for four, in a
restaurant? Explain.
7. What does the phrase “Fiji time” mean to you?
8. What does silence communicate in your culture? Discuss an example.

Exercise 2 How do we communicate without words?

 Gestures List. What are some common gestures? Students to get into groups
and each group to come up with as many ways of nonverbal communication as
they can in 1 minute (eg: shrug, hands on hips, finger to lips, shake head, nod
head, make a face, smile, wink).

 Silent Scene. Students to get into pairs. Each pair creates a one-minute scene
that takes place in one location and has a problem that needs to be solved.
Neither person in the scene can talk. All communication has to be nonverbal. Can
the audience guess the content of the scene without any dialogue to help?

 Subtext Scene. Work in pairs/ groups. Create a scene in which at least one
character has lines that say one thing while their body language tells another
thing (eg: a student tells another student they are happy that they won the
contest, but their body language is tense, with arms folded across their body).

 Nonverbal Communication. Tutors will give students a list of sentences and


students to come up with a way to nonverbally communicate them.
 Nonverbal Emotions. Tutors will have a list of emotions on pieces of paper
and put into a box. Students choose an emotion by picking a piece of paper from
the box. Students are to present the emotion listed on the slip of paper in a
wordless performance where they enter a space, then sit, get up, and leave the
space. The goal is to “show” your emotions well enough that the audience can
guess. (For example: Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Surprise, Fear, Jealousy,
Boredom, Disgust, Nervousness, Excitement, Relaxation, Tenseness, Stress,
Fatigue).

 Good Listener/Bad Listener. What does a good listener look like? How do
you communicate engagement nonverbally? Two volunteers come up to the
front. Person A has to tell Person B a story. The first time through, Person B is a
“good listener.” Do the scene again with Person B telling Person A a story. This
time, Person A is a “bad listener.” What does a bad listener look like? What is
their physicality? How do you communicate boredom nonverbally? Can the
audience see the difference?

 Judging. Have you ever judged someone by what they look like or by how
they move before you talk to them? What is it about someone’s looks, hair,
clothing, jewellery or physicality that affects you? Group work/ in pairs: Students
create a scene in which someone is judged not by what they say but by their
nonverbal communication.

THE END 

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