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.