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Hints:

The sensibility about nonverbal communication can be furthered when students are asked to purposely observe themselves or others in communication situations in the next 2–3 weeks and to bring examples to class.
Source: Intercultural training (see 4.1 above).

Procedure:

Students are divided into pairs. One assumes the role of the host, the other plays the guest. All receive role instructions for their group (see next page). During the preparation time, the hosts remain in the classroom, the guests go next door or in the hallway. During their preparation time, the students must reflect and consider how they will interpret the points listed on their assignment sheet nonverbally, without speaking.
The encounters begin after about ten minutes. No words may be exchanged. The play lasts ten minutes. The instructor then asks a few pairs to briefly report on their experiences.
Reflection and discussion with the class as a whole. Prompts:
- What worked well? why? What kinds of emotions did it provoke?
- What did not work well at all, and why? What kinds of emotions were triggered?
- Were the guests able to decode the hosts’ behavior?
- What did it provoke when certain expectations were not fulfilled?
- What were the expectations all about?
- Generalization: where do similar situations occur in reality with
  different expectations? What have you yourselves already experienced in this regard? What was your attitude?
- Do you know examples of situations with different expectations which specifically have to do with cultural differences?

WS – Role assignments

Worksheet for students

If they want to show something, they do not use their hands, but by staring intensively.

30 - 45 minutes

4th – 6th grade 7th – 9th grade

Materials: role instructions for hosts and guests (see template).

Explanations, abbreviations
First language	Also mother tongue or family language: the first language a child has learned and speaks at home. Some children have two first languages.
School language	The language that is spoken in the schools of the host country. In addition, the local dialect may count as an environment language.
Abbreviations	S: Student T: Teacher (instructor)

Legend for indications referencing organizational form, class, time requirements concerning teaching proposals:
	IW = Individual Work
	WP = Working with a partner
	SG = Small Groups
	WC = Whole Class
2nd – 4th grade	Suitable for... to... (e.g. 2nd – 4th grade). Keeping in mind that this designation may vary according to the requirements of the individual students.
20 minutes	Approximate time requirement, e.g. 20 minutes. (Estimated time varies, must be determined by the instructor according to the level and the requirements of the class).