Unit 19 Communication

Lesson 3 Body Language

BODY LANGUAGE SPEAKS VOLUMES

Body language is used to communicate attitudes and feelings.Every culture uses a set of gestures, facial expressions and body movements together with words to make a message clear. Nowadays, as people travel more, and come in to contact more frequently with people of different cultures, they rely on communicating in body language when they do not share a common spoken language. This can be quie successful. For example, at food markets in foreign lands, it is quite easy to show the seller what we would like to purchase by pointing to a particulare food and smiling. On the other hand, we can easily show what we do not like by shaking our heads.The message is clear.