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Look at the pictures below. They are related to the audio podcast you’re going to listen, guess what it is about and make predictions on what the listening activity is going to focus on.

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Look at the pictures below. They are related to the audio podcast you’re going to listen, guess what it is about and make predictions on what the listening activity is going to focus on.

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                                           TIME TO BRAINSTORM!

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                                           TIME TO BRAINSTORM!

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Look at the picture below and say the first word that comes to your mind and then write it down with your classmates.

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                                                LISTENING TIME!

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                                                LISTENING TIME!

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History of Hand Gestures

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                                                         Bingo!

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                                                         Bingo!

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Choose a bingo card and put an x over the words you hear through the audio. If you complete your card, shout bingo.

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Listen to the podcast and fill in the blanks.

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Listen to the podcast and fill in the blanks.

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1.   I'd like to focus on the history of four gestures in particular: …………………….., the thumbs up, the high five and the handshake.

2.   The Grenadier Guards, one of the oldest regiments of the British Army, used helmets in the form of  ………………...

3.   It's widely believed that this gesture goes back to Roman times when gladiators ……………….. in front of the emperor and eager crowds in the Colleseum.

4.   It may be that if the crowd wanted to spare the gladiator's life, then they would actually cover up their ……………… and keep it hidden.

5.   Two US teams lay claim to inventing the high five: the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1977 or the ………………………….. in 1978.

6.    In the Acropolis Museum in Athens, the base of one of the columns shows goddess Hera shaking hands with Athena, the goddess of wisdom and courage. It's thought that shaking hands, rather than ……………….. or ……………………, showed both parties as equals.

7.   In this way, the gesture ………………………. from its original meaning to convey trust, respect and equality.

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1-The salute, a ....... most associated with the military, may have originated in the 18th century.

a.signal
b.motion
c. gesture
d.mimic

2-The narrator focuses on the history of four gestures in particular:
the ......., the thumbs up, the high five and the handshake.

a.emblem
b.salute
c.illustrators
d.cones

3-The high-five hand gesture is almost universally used as a greeting or celebration. Many see its origins in ..........

a.baseball
b.volleyball
c.basketball
d.football

4-The final gesture I’m going to mention today is the handshake. It dates back as a greeting at least as far as Ancient ...........

a.Jerusalem
b.Damascus
c.Babylon
d.Greece

5- In 17th-century marriage portraits in Europe we find many examples of ......... between husband and wife.

a.handshakes
b.high five
c.thumbs up
d.salute

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1) Which hand gesture do you think is the most common hand gesture world wide?

2)Which hand gestures do you use most ? Why?

3)Write down the hand gestures that your culture has and discuss in groups of 2 about the meaning of them and what those hand gesture's origin might be.