Marking Gestures

For competitions and dramatic speeches you may wish to note gestures.

For the presenter - lead applause by clapping
Applause - clapping your own hands; clapping a puppet's hands; clapping giant blow up pair or hands; clapping with boxing gloves

Speech Gestures blog

Whole body

dance for joy

dance in competition

clumsy learning to dance

Diving

swimming demo: breast stroke, crawl back stroke, butterfly

Floating

Tennis - hitting ball, height of racket

Golf - stance

Face

Anger - frown, astonishment - open mouth, raised eyebrows, learning head forward; curiosity head forward, watching tennis match, stiff upper lip, whisper behind hand, head on one side straining to hear, hand cupped over ear to hear, looking at watch, kicking football, catching netball, swinging golf club, doing aerobics, squatting, slumped in front of TV, cheering football team, reading letter, (see Chaplin films, mime artists such as Marcel Marceau).

Arms 

Thank you -

Please

Shrug

Pray

Mock shake hands