How can multimodal reception skills in learners be built so that they can reconstruct the meaning of the information transmitted by a teacher using gestures? Our contribution attempts to provide some answers to this question. We draw on previous research to recall the interest learners have in the gestures and body images of referring adults, whose effects on comprehension and memorisation have been demonstrated. Based on the results of these studies, and using the approach developed by socio-semiotics, we present a possible approach to training learners how to read images of the teacher’s body.