Body Language

Public Speaking
Objective

Learn about body language aspects to keep in

mind when giving a presentation.
 Did you know that…

while there is no question that what

you say matters, studies show that
words you use make up just 7% of the
impact you have.

The remaining 93% is split between

body language and tone.
What happens when you give your audience the wrong vibes?

You push them away.

What can happen when you put your body language to good
use?

You can easily win your audience over.

 What do you think about this man?

1. Is he approachable?
2. Do you think he’s friendly?
3. Would you talk to him?
4. Does he look like someone you
could mess with?
5. If a person were to take a
picture of you right now, how
do you think you would come
across?
 Why is body language important in a speech or
presentation?

Your body
language needs
to match what
you are
expressing
verbally.
 Different kinds of body language

1. Eye contact
2. Facial expressions
3. Head movements
4. Hand gestures
5. Body posture
 Powerful Body Language Tips for Presentations
1. Smile often
2. Stand up straight
3. Assume power poses
4. Be facially expressive
5. Speak clearly and confidently
6. Don’t forget to breathe
7. Face your audience
8. Steer attention with hands to your presentation
4 Tips From a World Champion Public Speaker

1. What are the 4 tips to improve your public speaking?

2. Why should we implement these 4 tips?
3. What part of the body did he focus on?
Video (first 5 minutes)
 Standing, Gesturing and Eye Contact
(Non-verbal behavior)

1. When you’re delivering a presentation, your audience is not only paying attention to what you say, they’re paying attention to
____ ____ ____ it In fact, how you deliver your message is often more important than what you say.
2. The audience can form an impression of you. Especially they can determine if you are ____ and ____ .
3. The very first thing that your audience sees is ____ ____ .
4. It is critical that your body be ____ and ____ . You want to take up ____ .
5. To present properly, stand ____ . Shoulders and hips ____ .
6. It’s important to have your feet ____ ____ . Directly under your ____ . As if train tracks are running beneath your legs.
7. To have your feet on any other position opens the possibility to ____ or ____ .
8. Swaying signals your audience that you are ____ and perhaps ____ .
9. Your hands are used to ____ or ____ with gestures.
10. When gesturing, you want your arms ____ and ____ facing your audience.
11. Gestures should always be ____ ____ ____ and breaking the sides of your ____ . In other words ____ ____ ____ ____ .
12. When not gesturing place your hands either ____ ____ ____ ____ so their hanging gently. This makes you look very ____ .
13. Another great resting position is to ____ ____ ____ lightly right in front of you belly botton. Your hands resting on your ____ .
14. ____ ____ is critical for connecting with your audience.
15. When making eye contact, you want to ____ it around the audience. However, you ____ ____ ____ ____ on anyone too long.
We’re trying to avoid ____ ____ . We make eye contact in a ____ ____ ____ .
16. We don’t just stand in one position while delivering a presentation. ____ is key. I suggest three places for movement. 1. ____
____ ____ of a presentation. 2. when ____ ____ from the audience. Step into the question asker. 3. ____ ____ . When you move
from one point to the next.
Tips on Body Language by David Phillips
 Demonstration of Body Language 5%
You will record yourself doing and describing the following poses:
1. Base posture and base stance. Standing balanced and straight. Feet facing forward directly under your shoulders.
Hands hanging gently by your side.
2. Resting position with hands lightly clasping in front of your belly button.
3. Showing the don’ts like swaying, rocking, kicking or retreating.
4. Showing the don’ts like looking down, closing body language, spinning and turning your back on your audience.
5. Showing the don’ts like fixing your hair or clothes.
6. Moving from one place to the another as if you were transitioning from one idea to the next and landing on your base
posture.
7. Making a vertical movement to generate trust such as lowering yourself or placing one knee on the floor or even sitting
down.
8. Pretending to make eye contact in a non-pattern way to avoid darting eyes
9. Stepping into your audience, extending your arms and welcoming them.
10. Showing the bad positions that you shouldn’t do like hands in your pockets, hands on your waist and the figgly.
11. Demonstrating how to find your base posture.
12. Gesturing with your hands using the give, the show and the chop. Demonstrate the positions of hands in order to show
palms.
13. Showing the DON’T of the T-rex movement and other don’ts about hand and arm movement like pointing at an
audience.
 Mime competition

a. 2 students will compete to get the role in an

audition.
b. Roles will be selected at random from a box.
c. Both students have to perform the role and the
class will decide who gets the part.
d. Winner gets a Candy.
Possible Roles
1. A neurotic chain-smoking poet who has writer’s block.
2. A doctor who just performed surgery but who lost the patient in the operation room.
3. A ballet dancer who just auditioned for a role and got it.
4. A child throwing a tantrum because his parents won’t buy him a toy.
5. A person who is remorsefully confessing his/her sins to a priest.
6. A grumpy man/woman who just got news about his sibling passing away.
7. A woman/man who just got broken up with through a text message.
8. An elegant lady going to a gala runs into a woman going to the same gala with the
same dress and feels outraged.
9. An aggressive salesperson trying to sell a product to a customer. The customer doesn’t
buy anything so the salesperson gets mad.
10. A man/woman going to a job interview worried but positive. Comes out disappointed
cause s/he didn’t get the job.