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- Watch a video played by your teacher and discuss the verbal and non-verbal
communication performed by the speakers in the video.
- Decide what can be considered as appropriate or inappropriate verbal and non-
verbal communication.
- You can write down the result of your discussion in the following table.

Verbal Non-Verbal
Communication Communication

B Fillers

During the speech we may make
pauses and fill them with certain verbal
expressions like um and uh. Those are
called as verbal fillers or vocalized

pauses. Those refer to phrases which are
used during speaking to fill in a moment
of silence between connecting thoughts
or ideas (Cohen, 2012).
Some fillers that are usually used are as
https://www.presentationmagazine.com/newimages/fillers-468.jpg follows:

1. Filler Sounds — e.g. um, uh, ah, mm
2. Filler Words – e.g. basically, actually, literally
3. Filler Phrases – e.g. “I think that”, “you know”, “what I’m trying to say is”

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