Conversation Skills Review

It's important to understand another person's appearances because . . .

• A person's appearance helps me filter the poorly dressed people from the popular kids.

• A person's appearance can give you tips on how a person is feeling or acting.

• A person's appearance helps you stand out negatively when your at a sporting event.

Tone of voice refers to . . .

• How you say something.

• The sound effects that your voice makes when happy.

• My verbal business

The volume of your voice refers to . . .

• How loud or quiet my television gets.

• How loud or quiet my trombone gets.

• How loud or quiet my voice gets.

Eye contact refers to . . .

• Eyeball to eyeball.

• the act of directly looking into someone's eyes.

• 80/20

Body Language refers to . . .

• The language of my body.

• Body language refers to the type of communication in which yawning means jump, squatting means sleeping, and high fives could be lethal.

• Body language is a type of nonverbal communication in which physical behavior, as opposed to words, are used to express or convey information

Gestures refer to . . .

• Zig zags and dohickeys and a lot of other things with your hands and heads.

• The part of nonverbal communication that involves physical movements and our body.

• a movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning.

Facial Expressions refer to . . .

• one or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face.

• whatever your face is up to at the moment.

• nonverbal communication that uses physical movements.

When talking about a person's appearance, we really are referring to . . .

• How Michael Jackson someone can become.

• Nonverbal communication that involves physical movements

• How a person looks and what they are wearing.

When talking with Sally, I noticed that she was wearing the same outfit as yesterday and she didn't take a shower. I can infer that . . .

• Sally most likely overslept and was not able to put herself together like normal.

• Sally is starting a new fashion trend which involves not looking nice.

• Sally is extremely violent and we better not infer about her outfit or else.

Which of the following hand gestures would be the best one to use in this situation.

"Jack wanted to say hello to Becky."

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