CAE :: Lesson 24

LOS CURSOS DE INGLES GRATIS PREFERIDOS POR LOS HISPANOHABLANTES

 

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Reading: Part 1/3
Three themed texts followed by two 4-option
multiple-choice questions on each text.

ACTIVITY 96: You are going to read one extract which is concerned in some way with communication. For questions 1-2, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. Then check the correct answers.

WORDLESS COMMUNICATION

The term 'non-verbal' is commonly used to describe such communicative resources as gesture, facial movement and tone of voice. The term has long been useful in challenging the misconception that words constitute the whole of communication. However, a further assumption has sometimes seemed to follow: that 'non-verbal' expression is something unitary, independent of verbal communicating, or classifiable under some single term like 'body language'. This is to drastically simplify our actual practice.

As pointed out by writers on language and social interaction, gestural and vocal actions are often integrated rather than autonomous, and verbal and non-verbal communicating usually produced in a highly coordinated fashion. Proposing a concept of 'non-verbal expression' has led to an unfounded generalisation about this supposedly distinct subject: that it is the medium for expressing emotions and relations rather than conscious thought or ideas, for example. Even h this were true, the fact remains that the resources covered by the term 'non-verbal' are diverse and complex in the extreme. It can only be misleading to bunch them together as a distinctive communicative mode.

Questions 1-2

1.

The writer supports the view that non-verbal expression...

 

A.    is more complex than verbal expression.
B.    is a separate field of study from verbal expression.
C.    is commonly used in conjunction with verbal expression.
D.    is able to communicate more information than verbal expression.

2.

The writer suggests that we should...

 

A.    recognise the differences between verbal and non-verbal expression.
B.    be aware of the many aspects of non-verbal expression.
C.    do further research into non-verbal expression.
D.    accept the limitations of non-verbal expression.
 

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