Education of modern foreign languages is a discipline that all school teachers must teach their pupils from the 1 cycle onwards. The curricula advocate activities in the language studied so that the pupils listen to it as much as possible. However, EC1 students are still innovative in this education. We assume that mere verbal communication is not sufficient. In our memory we associate it with a non-verbal communication: gestuality. We want to use co-verbal gestures: iconic, metaphoric and deictic, to facilitate this education. During this work we are looking at whether, on the one hand, pupils’ gestures make it easier for them to remember a new animal-specific vocabulary and, on the other hand, whether the teacher’s gestures facilitate students’ understanding when speaking English.