Allow about 10 minutes
Have a look at these images. What do all these things have in common?
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![]() (a) A bird singing
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![]() (b) An ambulance with flashing lights and sirens
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![]() (c) Mobile phone with incoming text message
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![]() (d) Cat winding itself around its owner’s feet and purring loudly
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![]() (e) A person holding another’s hand
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![]() (f) A crying baby
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![]() (g) A phone ringing and a person answering
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![]() (h) A TV with the news coming on
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Figure 1 What do they have in common?
Look again, and make a note of what you think each of them is communicating.
They are all communicating in some way – they all have something to tell you.
We communicate all the time, sometimes without realising it. Something as simple as a raise of the eyebrow, a smile or a frown can convey a clearly understood message from one person to another. In fact, everything we do is communication. We can show people what mood we are in just by the way we walk down the street or by the way we answer the phone. The next activity asks you to think about the ways people communicate.
Allow about 5 minutes
As you just saw, there are many ways to communicate. See if you can write down at least ten of them here.
Here are just some of them:
and many more.
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