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MEYCUAYAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

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Senior High School

Module 19 11
in
ENGLISH
Oral Communication-Quarter 2:
Uses Principles of Effective Speech
Delivery Focusing on Facial Expressions,
Gestures and Movements
(EN11/12OC-Ilcj-26.4)

Meycauayan National High School

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 GRADE 11
English
Quarter 2 – Module 19:
Uses Principles of Effective Speech
Delivery Focusing on Facial
Expressions, Gestures and Movements
(EN11/12OC-Ilcj-26.4)

This instructional material was collaboratively developed and

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particularly the Division Quality Assurance Team (DQAT), school heads,
colleagues, and other stakeholders. We encourage teachers and other
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recommendations to the Department of Education, Schools Division of City
of Meycauayan at meycauayan.city@deped.gov.ph.

We value your feedback and recommendations.

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Introductory Message
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
Welcome to the English- Grade 11/12 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM)
Module on Uses Principles of Effective Speech Delivery Focusing on: Facial
Expressions, Gestures and Movements!
This module was collaboratively designed, developed, and reviewed by
educators both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or
facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum
while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.
This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also
aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.
In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use

this module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while
allowing them to manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected
to encourage and assist the learners as they do the tasks included in the
module.
For the learner:
Welcome to the English – Grade 11/12 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM)
Module on Uses Principles of Effective Speech Delivery Focusing on: Facial
Expressions, Gestures and Movements!
The hand is one of the most symbolized parts of the human body. It is often
used to depict skill, action and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create
and accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning resource signifies that you as a
learner are capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant
competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in
your own hands!
This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being an
active learner.

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 Try This!

Choose the letter of the correct answer and write your answer on a separate sheet of
paper.

1. Smile can set a positive ambiance before you start speaking. Smile is
what?
a. Facial Expression
b. Gesture
c. Movement
d. Facial Reaction

2. This includes the movements of hands and arms.

a. Facial Expression
b. Gesture
c. Movement
d. Choreography

3. Pointing with one finger straight out is an example of what?

a. Emphatic Gesture
b. Natural Gesture
c. Body Language
d. Descriptive Gesture

4. The function of this gesture is to illustrate or refer to objects rather

than emotions.
a. Emphatic Gesture
b. Natural Gesture
c. Body Language
d. Descriptive Gesture

5. Walking back and forth in the same path is an example of...

a. Facial Expression
b. Gesture
c. Movement
d. Feet Synchronization

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Lesson Focusing on Facial Expressions, Gestures
19 and Movements in Delivering a Speech
LEARNING TARGETS:

At the end of this module, the students should be able to:

➢ Identify what facial expressions, gestures and movements are.
➢ Explain the role of facial expressions, gestures, and movement in speech
delivery.
➢ Exercise the use of facial expressions, gestures, and movement in a
spoken poetry.

Overview

You have learned the use of stage presence in speech delivery in Module 18.
It was discussed that; this is one of the most essential principles when it comes to
public speaking. This was defined as the overall quality that keeps your audience
engaged with you as you deliver your speech to them. On the other hand, this
module will be focusing on the other principles such as integration of facial
expressions, gestures, and movement in speech delivery.

We all know that these three play a vital role to have an effective speech
delivery - for it shows professionalism in you. For you to dive deeper in these
principles, browse this module to learn more.

Read, analyze, and answer the following activities and assessments in this
module and you will definitely overcome those.

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 Do This!

In this section, new lessons and concepts will be introduced to you using a
graphic organizer for you to be able to be familiarized with the topics behind this
module. Let’s start!

Direction: Below is an organizer that you need to answer to introduce to you the
content of this module. Define each principle based on your learning from Junior
High School. Let us start!

Facial
Expressions

Gestures

Movements

How important these three principles in speech delivery?

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 Explore!

Facial expressions, gestures and movements play a vital role in making a speech
delivery more effective and colorful. To better understand these principles, read the
following text from the University of Minnesota Libraries. To read more of their
articles, check the link at the end of this text.
Facial Expressions

Facial expressions help set the emotional tone for a speech, and it is important that
your facial expressions stay consistent with your message. In order to set a positive
tone before you start speaking, briefly look at the audience and smile. A smile is a
simple but powerful facial expression that can communicate friendliness,
openness, and confidence. Facial expressions communicate a range of emotions
and are also associated with various moods or personality traits. For example,
combinations of facial expressions can communicate that a speaker is tired,
excited, angry, confused, frustrated, sad, confident, smug, shy, or bored, among
other things. Even if you aren’t bored, for example, a slack face with little
animation may lead an audience to think that you are bored with your own speech,
which isn’t likely to motivate them to be interested. So, make sure your facial
expressions are communicating an emotion, mood, or personality trait that you
think your audience will view favorably. Also make sure your facial expressions
match with the content of your speech. When delivering something lighthearted or
humorous, a smile, bright eyes, and slightly raised eyebrows will nonverbally
enhance your verbal message. When delivering something serious or somber, a
furrowed brow, a tighter mouth, and even a slight head nod can enhance that
message. If your facial expressions and speech content are not consistent, your
audience could become confused by the conflicting messages, which could lead
them to question your honesty and credibility.

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Gestures

Gestures include arm and hand movements. We all go through a process of

internalizing our native culture from childhood. An obvious part of this process is
becoming fluent in a language. Perhaps less obvious is the fact that we also become

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fluent in nonverbal communication, gestures in particular. We all use hand
gestures while we speak, but we didn’t ever take a class in matching verbal
communication with the appropriate gestures; we just internalized these norms
over time based on observation and put them into practice. By this point in your
life, you have a whole vocabulary of hand movements and gestures that
spontaneously come out while you’re speaking. Some of these gestures are
emphatic and some are descriptive (Koch, 2007). Emphatic gestures are the most
common hand gestures we use, and they function to emphasize our verbal
communication and often relate to the emotions we verbally communicate. Pointing
with one finger or all the fingers straight out is an emphatic gesture. We can even
bounce that gesture up and down to provide more emphasis. Moving the hand in a
circular motion in front of our chest with the fingers spread apart is a common
emphatic gesture that shows excitement and often accompanies an increased rate
of verbal speaking. We make this gesture more emphatic by using both hands.
Descriptive gestures function to illustrate or refer to objects rather than emotions.
We use descriptive gestures to indicate the number of something by counting with
our fingers or the size, shape, or speed of something. Our hands and arms are
often the most reliable and easy-to-use visual aids a speaker can have.

While it can be beneficial to plan a key gesture or two in advance, it is generally

best to gesture spontaneously in a speech, just as you would during a regular
conversation. For some reason, students are insecure about or uncomfortable with
gesturing during a speech. Even after watching their speech videos, many students
say they think they “gestured too much” or nit-pick over a particular gesture. Out
of thousands of speeches I have seen, I can’t recall a student who gestured too
much to the point that it was distracting. Don’t try to overdo your gestures though.
You don’t want to look like one of those crazy-arm inflatable dancing men that
companies set up on the side of the road to attract customers. But more
importantly, don’t try to hold back. Even holding back, a little usually ends up
nearly eliminating gestures. While the best beginning strategy is to gesture
naturally, you also want to remain a high self-monitor and take note of your typical
patterns of gesturing. If you notice that you naturally gravitate toward one
particular gesture, make an effort to vary your gestures more. You also want your
gestures to be purposeful, not limp, or lifeless. I caution my students against
having what I call “spaghetti noodle arms,” where they raise their hand to gesture
and then let it flop back down to their side.

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Movements
Sometimes movement of the whole body, instead of just gesturing with
hands, is appropriate in a speech. I recommend that beginning speakers hold off
trying to incorporate body movement from the waist down until they’ve gotten at
least one speech done. This allows you to concentrate on managing anxiety and
focus on more important aspects of delivery like vocal variety, avoiding fluency
hiccups and verbal fillers, and improving eye contact. When students are given the
freedom to move around, it often ends up becoming floating or pacing, which are
both movements that comfort a speaker by expending nervous energy but only
serve to distract the audience. Floating refers to speakers who wander aimlessly
around, and pacing refers to speakers who walk back and forth in the same path.
To prevent floating or pacing, make sure that your movements are purposeful.
Many speakers employ the triangle method of body movement where they start in
the middle, take a couple steps forward and to the right, then take a couple steps
to the left, then return to the center. Obviously, you don’t need to do this multiple
times in a five- to ten-minute speech, as doing so, just like floating or pacing, tends
to make an audience dizzy. To make your movements appear more natural, time
them to coincide with a key point you want to emphasize or a transition between
key points. Minimize other movements from the waist down when you are not
purposefully moving for emphasis. Speakers sometimes tap or shuffle their feet,
rock, or shift their weight back and forth from one leg to the other. Keeping both
feet flat on the floor, and still, will help avoid these distracting movements.

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(Retrieved from: https://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/chapter/10-4-physical-

delivery/#:~:text=Facial%20expressions%20help%20communicate%20emotions%20a
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KEEP THIS IN MIND:

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 In this module, it was discussed
that facial expressions, gestures and
movements are essential principles of
speech delivery.
Facial expression helps a speaker to
communicate his/her emotions and
enthusiasm while speaking in front of
audience. In a speech delivery, make sure
that facial expressions are consistent all
throughout the speech with the content
being presented. You may record yourself
practicing your speech to evaluate your
use of facial expressions if it is better or
needs an improvement.

Emphatic and descriptive gestures

enhance the verbal content of someone’s
speech. These should appear
spontaneous but be purposeful.
Meanwhile, movements from the waist
down should be purposefully used to
emphasize a point or serves as a
transition during a speech.

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 Apply What You Have Learned!

Activity 1:
Direction: Artists in telenovelas, movies and even short films use an effective facial
expression, gestures and even choreographed movements to create the best film to
be watched by people across the globe. Let us try your acting skills with this
activity.

Choose one among the following scenarios below and create a following skit or a
Tik-tok video. The length of the video is strictly 1 to 2 minutes. It can be a
monologue or a Doble-Kara role play. You may also include your family member if
you want to do so.

Assessment 1:

Direction: For this assessment, you are asked to explain the following principles of
effective speech delivery in this module. But for this time, you should define it
based on your own words. Use the format below.

Facial
Expressions

Gestures

Movements

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Activity 2:

Direction: Charades is a game of pantomimes: you have to "act out" a phrase

without speaking, while the other members of your team try to guess what the
phrase is. The objective is for your team to guess the phrase as quickly as possible.
(Nau, 2020). This time let us guess the following phrases or words from the
pictures below. Each will represent a syllable or an exact word with the words
being guessed. Let us play!

1. __________

2. __________

3. __________

4. __________

5. __________

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Assessment 2:

Direction: Below is the YouTube entitled Body Language of Leaders – What You
Can Learn From the Best by Vanessa Van Edwards. Watch the video and answer
the following questions.

https://youtu.be/33HYGYKKO7U
Guide Questions:

1. What can you extract from the video?

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2. What are the different body language the leaders do when having a public
speech?
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Assess What You Have Learned!

Direction: Using the graphic organizer below, discuss how important facial
expressions, gestures, and movements are in speech delivery. Write it in an essay
form using a separate sheet of paper.

Facial
Movements
Expressions

Gestures

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 Self-Check

Direction: Fill the blanks with the appropriate words or phrases to make the
statement true and complete.
In this module, it was discussed that facial expressions, gestures and
movements are essential principles of speech delivery.
1.____________ helps a speaker to communicate his/her emotions and enthusiasm
while speaking in front of an audience. In a speech delivery, make sure that facial
expressions are 2. ____________ all throughout the speech with the content being
presented. You may record yourself practicing your speech to evaluate your use of
facial expressions if it is better or needs an improvement.

3.____________ and 4. ____________ gestures enhance the verbal content of

someone’s speech. These should appear spontaneous but be purposeful.

Meanwhile, 5. ____________ from the waist down should be purposefully used to

emphasize a point or serve as a transition during a speech.

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References
M Libraries. 10.4 Physical Delivery.Retrieved from:
https://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/chapter/10-4-physical-
delivery/#:~:text=Facial%20expressions%20help%20communicate%20emoti
ons%20and%20enthusiasm%20while%20speaking.&text=Emphatic%20and
%20descriptive%20gestures%20enhance,a%20transition%20during%20a%2
0speech.

Nau, Dana S. Rules for the Game of Charades. Retrieved last July 23, 2020 from:
ttps://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/misc/charades.html (no date)

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 Author

Jennelle Marie R. Aragon is a graduate of Bachelor of

Science in Secondary Education Major in English from
Polytechnic University of the Philippines - Manila (PUP) in
2014. She passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers in
2015 and is currently taking up Master of Arts in Teaching
Science (MATS) in University of Caloocan City and already
earned 27 units. She is a teacher in Meycauayan National
High School, handling English-related subjects like Oral
Communication in Context, Reading and Writing Skills,
Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, English for Academic
and Professional Purposes and 21st Century Literature from
the Philippines and the World in Grade 11 and 12 since 2017.

Layout Artist

Jennelle Marie R. Aragon is a graduate of Bachelor

of Science in Secondary Education Major in English from
Polytechnic University of the Philippines - Manila (PUP) in
2014. She passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers in
2015 and is currently taking up Master of Arts in Teaching
Science (MATS) in University of Caloocan City and already
earned 27 units. She is a teacher in Meycauayan National
High School, handling English-related subjects like Oral
Communication in Context, Reading and Writing Skills,
Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, English for Academic
and Professional Purposes and 21st Century Literature from
the Philippines and the World in Grade 11 and 12 since
2017.

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