WARM UP ACTIVITY-ROLE PLAY

Form groups of four. Create a two

minutes group presentation that
reflects your understanding on
what communication is all about.
Be creative. You have 10 minutes
to prepare.
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Is effective communication important?

why? or why not?
 WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?
Webster defines communication as a process
by which information is exchanged between
individuals through a common system of
symbols, signs or behavior.
Communication is a process of sharing and
conveying messages or information from one
person to another using different means,
medium, context, media, and cultures.
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It can be through face-to-face, a phone
conversation, a group discussion, a meeting or
interview, a letter correspondence, a class
recitation, and many others.
In other words, the basic functions of
communication are to achieve understanding or
shared meaning and to persuade, inform,
entertain and manage relationships.
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1. Communication is a process.
Communication as a process means it is a
step by step activity and it is essentially a two-
way process that involves the active
participation of both the sender and receiver.
It is the act or process of using words,
sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or
exchange information or to express your
ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone
else.
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2. Communication is much more of an

ART than a science.
There is no right or wrong way to
communicate – no set of absolute rules to
be followed but there are underlying
principles to guide us into effective
communication.
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3. Communication has a sender and receiver.
Communication occurs between two or more people
acting as the speaker or the receiver of the message. In
other words, it is a two-way process of reaching
mutual understanding, in which participants do not
only exchange (encode-decode) information, news,
ideas and feelings but also create and share meaning.
In general, communication is a means of connecting
people or places.
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4. Communication is verbal or non-verbal.

Communication can be expressed through written or
spoken words (verbal) or actions (non-verbal) of both
spoken words and nonverbal actions at the same time.
Communication is not all about sending or receiving
facts in words. It does involve ideas and emotions that
are expressed through signs, symbols and gestures.
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5. Communication is inevitable.
Inevitability means communication is taking
place even when someone does not want or
intend to communicate. This “does not want to
communicate” feeling of someone actually does
communicate something. What does this mean?
It simply means that you cannot avoid
communicating.
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6. Communication is irreversible.
This means that what you have said can never be
unsaid. Irreversibility happens the very minute you
click the “OK” button for a comment or post on your
social media and that it would be too late to take it back
when a lot of people have already reacted, and
commented to it. The same thing when you perhaps
throw a hurting or offensive word to your enemy
because of your anger.
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7. Communication is Unrepeatable.
Unrepeatability means that an act of communication can never be
duplicated. We may say the same thing over and over again but the
effect of what you said the second or third or fourth time will not be
the same as the first time you said it.
Even if we intend to say the same thing again which is possible
but the ideas here is, the outer world has changed by the second
utterance. The listeners may be different, our mood may be
different, or our relationship might be in a different place. You don’t
get a second chance to make a first impression.
SCRIBBLE and speak up!
Introduce yourself in class..
One sentence summary
Summarize the things you have learned today..