ProfessionalSkills

Task 1:
• Practise saying these sentences with a partner using body language to
reinforce and accentuate your message.
• Why not mute your microphones and try to guess which sentence your
partner is trying to convey?

Facial
Gestures Posture Position
Expressions

1. Our ignorance of these problems is like a vast desert

2. Cohesion means sticking together tightly
3. We must keep costs down, so as to be more efficient
4. These two parts join at an angle, making a kind of corner
5. If the air conditioning is too cold, people will sit all huddled up,
trying to keep warm
6. It has a swept back shape, like the wings of a jet fighter plane
7. And then it slowly opens out, just like a flower opening
8. They’re always adding new parts, and the result is, the equipment
gets bigger and bigger
9. This matter is finished. We don’t want to hear any more about it
10. You stir it around a bit, just like stirring tea, and then ...

Task 2: Practise saying these sentences with a partner varying your vocal delivery

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