Body Language on Stage

B1 · Intermediate1 hr 7 minStartup EnglishLesson 4 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: make your body tell the confident story — power stance, purposeful gestures, distributed eye contact, and deliberate movement with stillness on the key lines.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: What your body says first

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Body Language on Stage

    Read a 291-word text about Body Language on Stage

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Body Language on Stage Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: A stage walkthrough, minute by minute

    Read a 257-word text about A stage walkthrough, minute by minute

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: Body Language Signals

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Stage-presence language

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Role Play: Practicing Stage Presence

    Role-play: You are doing a final rehearsal on stage before demo day, and a presentation coach is helping you improve your body language. (4 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your body on stage, live

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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posturepower stanceslouchinggesturefidgetbarrierengagementpurposeful

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