Vocabulary :

• Gesture (Wikipedia)
  * 1 Types of gestures
  * 2 Studies of gesture
  * 3 Social significance
  * 4 Hand gestures
  * 5 Body gestures 5.1 Mooning 5.2 Anasyrma 5.3 The "peacock"
  * 6 Head/face gestures
  6.1 Facial expressions 6.2 Eye-rolling 6.3 Nodding 6.4 Bent head 6.5 Head shaking 6.6 Head turning 6.7 Pointing by chin
  6.8 Hello by nod
  * 7 See also
  * 8 References
  * 9 External links

• The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY of GESTURES, SIGNS & BODY LANGUAGE CUES
  (members.aol.com)
  

Examples :

• GUN GESTURES :

  School reprimands seven-year-old boys for playing 'army game' in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
  "A primary school has been condemned by parents for disciplining two seven-year-old boys after teachers ruled playing army games amounted to "threatening behaviour"...
  Staff ... reprimanded the two boys after they were seen making pistol shapes with their fingers."
  The school said "the gun gestures were “unacceptable” and were not permitted at school."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

  

• Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man or "pattycake"  "is one of the oldest and most widely known surviving English nursery rhymes...
  The rhyme is often accompanied by hand-clapping between two people, a clapping game..."
  See the lyrics.
  (Wikipedia)

  

• Body language abroad
  "Body language means different things in different countries. Here are our top tips on using body language abroad..."
  (spoton.de)

  

• Dance moves can reveal your personality (telegraph.co.uk)
  
  

• High five
  "is a celebratory hand gesture that occurs when two people simultaneously raise one hand, about head high, and push, slide or slap the flat of their palm and hand against the palm and flat hand of their partner...
  In the United States, there is an initiative to celebrate the third Thursday of April as National High Five Day."
  (Wikipedia)
  Watch a VIDEO.
  (nationalhighfiveday.com)

• GESTURES (uefap.com)
  INCIDENTAL GESTURES - Mechanical actions with secondary messages
  EXPRESSIVE GESTURES - Biological gestures of the kind we share with other animals
  MIMIC GESTURES - Gestures which transmit signals by imitation
  SCHEMATIC GESTURES - Imitations that become abbreviated or abridged
  SYMBOLIC GESTURES - Gestures which represent moods and ideas
  TECHNICAL GESTURES - Gestures used by specialist minorities
  CODED GESTURES - Sign-language based on a formal system

• In pictures: US candidates' body language (BBC)

• Langage gestuel au JAPON (commecadujapon.com)

• List of gestures (Wikipedia)

• Communicating with Gestures (everythingesl.net)
  "Very few gestures are universally understood and interpreted. What is perfectly acceptable in the United States may be rude, or even obscene, in other cultures."
  - Understanding Different Interpretations of Common Gestures
  - Answer Key for Body Language Activities

• Body language (Wikipedia)

• Sign language (Wikipedia)
  1 History of sign language
  2 Linguistics of sign 2.1 Sign languages' relationships with oral languages
  3 Use of signs in hearing communities 3.1 Spatial grammar and simultaneity 3.2 Written forms of sign languages
  4 Home sign
  5 Media
  6 Benefits...

• Charades (Wikipedia)
  It "is a word guessing game. In the form most commonly played today, it is an acting game in which one player acts out a word or phrase, often by pantomiming similar-sounding words, and the other players guess the word or phrase. The idea is to use physical rather than verbal language to convey the meaning to another party..."

• Gestures - Situations (edupass.org)

• The top 10 hand gestures you'd better get right (languagetrainers.co.uk)

• Cultural Gestures (soc302.tripod.com)
  1. Basic Courtesies and dining etiquette
  2. Simple hand gestures
  3. Spacing
  4. Rude or hostile signs
  5. Waiting in line
  6. Shaking Head
  7. Nodding Head
  8. Waving
  9. Handshake
  10. Hellos and Good-bye
  
  

• European Gestures (ricksteves.com)
  "In Europe, gestures can contribute to the language barrier. Here are a few common gestures, their meanings, and where you're likely to see them..."

• Italian Hand Gestures - Speak Italian With Your Hands (about.com)
  Illustrated hand gestures with an explanation in Italian and English.
  
  

Pictures :

History :

• The History of the High Five - "Did you know the third Thursday of every April is National High Five Day?"
  + a video
  (neatorama.com)
  
  

Conversation Questions :

• Gestures (iteslj.org)

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• Gestures around the world (isabellemori.homestead.com)

• Culture Shock + quiz (international.ouc.bc.ca)

• 50s TV Heroes: Heroic Gestures and Other Habits (funtrivia.com)
  
  

Exercises TO PRINT :

• Body language
  "First match each drawing with the jumbled titles
  - Then find the common interpretation given to the sign or gesture in our country"
  (activitice)

• Body Verbs Vocabulary Exercise - Circle the correct answer.
  - ex : "You do this with your head when you agree with something.
  A To sway B To shake C To nod"
  (autoenglish)

• People Skills Quiz (johnboe.com)
  "Are you aware that your body language reveals your deepest feelings and hidden thoughts to total strangers?..."

Lesson plans :

• Body Language - ESL lesson (eslteachersboard.com)
  "This lesson gives practice in using the present simple tense."

• Gestures
  Aim : "To present gestures and imperatives while practising body parts vocabulary."
  (eslbase.com)

Poems :

• First Gestures by Julia Spicher Kasdorf (poets.org)
  "Among the first we learn is good-bye,
  your tiny wrist between Dad's forefinger
  and thumb forced to wave bye-bye to Mom..."

Songs :

• Body Language - INXS :
  "Use your eyes and your face
  Words have no place
  Move your body in a way
  So I will know what you say"
  

Videos :

• Body language in Europe and Asia - with VIDEOS

  

• National High Five Day - Watch a VIDEO.
  (nationalhighfiveday.com)

  

  High five
  "is a celebratory hand gesture that occurs when two people simultaneously raise one hand, about head high, and push, slide or slap the flat of their palm and hand against the palm and flat hand of their partner...
  In the United States, there is an initiative to celebrate the third Thursday of April as National High Five Day."
  (Wikipedia)
  

• Body Language - Learn to Speak Body: Tape 5 (YouTube)
  
  
• Gestures of Aggression & Narcissism: narcissistic arms poses (YouTube) - LIEN MODIFIE

• Speech Functions and gestures (YouTube)

• Gestures From Around the World Part 1 + Part 2 (YouTube)

• Japanese gestures (YouTube)