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I. Non-Verbal Game (in groups of six)
- Each student writes or makes an emoji with an expression on one slip and a gesture on the other.
- Jumble the slips and keep them upside down.
- Pick the slips in turns and enact it in 30 seconds.
- The person who can identify the expression or gesture first, gets 10 points.
- Continue it for two rounds and find the Non-verbal Champion.
This game is like Dumb Charades – players act out words, phrases, or movie titles using gestures and body language without speaking.
II. Do you know?
The French priest
Charles-Michel de l’Épée (1712–89)
is recognised as
‘The Father of Sign Language and Deaf Education’
.
III. Bonus Poem – Weigh Your Words by E. F. Hayward
If we would “weigh” the words we say,
And speak but those we mean,
We’d save a lot of talk each day,
And keep our conscience clean.
The idle words we often speak,
And promises we make,
If given credence, by the weak,
May cause some heart to ache.
We never know the pain and sting
An idle word may start;
We never can erase one thing,
We’ve written on a heart.
‘Tis best to “weigh” each sentence well,
And as I’ve said before,
Tho’ we’d not have so much to tell,
’Twould mean a whole lot more.
And speak but those we mean,
We’d save a lot of talk each day,
And keep our conscience clean.
The idle words we often speak,
And promises we make,
If given credence, by the weak,
May cause some heart to ache.
We never know the pain and sting
An idle word may start;
We never can erase one thing,
We’ve written on a heart.
‘Tis best to “weigh” each sentence well,
And as I’ve said before,
Tho’ we’d not have so much to tell,
’Twould mean a whole lot more.
