Verb video brainstorm
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It might help to have definitions here to clarify which meaning is desired ...
Also, for many of these, there is a context and a critical moment. Perhaps we should consider using an arrow or something to denote the desire concept? I.e. for "keep," there is an offerered gift and a continued posession; we want to emphasize the latter over the first.
| Verb | Jordan's Great Idea | Xiaojuan's Brilliant Idea | Everybody Else's Mediocre Ideas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Know | Someone asked a question, then pointing to head | A student knowing the answer raising his hand | For all verbs: Do we know anyone that does pantomime? Mimes are supposed to be perfect at acting out the meaning of a word succinctly. |
| Get | (which get is this?) Taking apple from basket | Cell 3 | Bad guy's order to deputies when hero breaks free and runs for life |
| Think | Someone touching his chin/crouched against a wall/biting a pen/with fingers on his forehead | Cell 4 | |
| Go | walking away from camera | Going out of a room | Cell 4 |
| See | covering eyes with hand, then showing recognition | Pointing to something with eyes wide opened | Pointing to eyes and then to an object |
| Come | person responding to beckoning hand gesture | Coming into a room; coming up to a friend waving his hands | approaching the camera from far away and then stopping in fron of it |
| Want | person A begging person B for some object | Trying to reach something across the table; pointing at a gift behind the shopping window; | Cell 4 |
| Say | Introducing something; talking | Cell 4 | |
| Put | Putting something on the table; putting on a coat | Cell 4 | |
| Look | Same as "see" without recognition | Looking out of the window; looking throught microscope/magnifying glasses/binoculars | Cell 4 |
| Like | Pointing to two similar thinks; someone showing he is fond of something | Looking at a piece of cake and rubbing your stomach (that could be want too) | |
| Take | a and b are sitting together. Three boxes in front of a, b takes one box | Taking pictures; taking off clothes; taking something out of a bag | Take an apple from a fruit basket |
| Make | b makes orange guice | Making faces; making a snowman/sand castle; making a cake/dish; doing make-up | Cell 4 |
| Give | b hands a wrapped gift | Handing someone something; giving a present | Cell 4 |
| Thank | a helps b up, b hugs a | Hugging someone/grasping someone's hands for a gift; making a bow to the audience after the show | Cell 4 |
| Need | a tries to open door, goes for key, but it's being held by b | Reaching out hands | Cell 4 |
| Remember | 3-card monty game: a shows queen, flips card face down, waves another queen, b points to correct card | Cell 3 | Blank stare in exam hall loses some of its blankness |
| Find | 3-card monty pays off | Bending down and picking up a pen under the chair; searching the draw; getting under the table and coming out with something in hand | rummaging through a purse or a bag and then finding keys |
| Buy | a gives b money for item, b gives item | Buy some product from a snack vendor | Cell 4 |
| Mind | Cell 2 | Cell 3 | Lucy telling Linus it is bedtime |
| Pay | a gives b money | Paying a meal/coffee with cash/by credit card | Cell 4 |
| Work | clocking in and then starting menial activity | Someone busy reading and writing with tons of papers piled up on his desk | Cell 4 |
| Let | Cell 2 | Someone stopped and let another person go first | Cell 4 |
| Keep | a gives something to b, b offers it to a, a refuses | Cell 3 | Waving the cab-driver's Washingtons away |
| Hear | a speaks, b has hand cupped to ear, nods | Someone with headphones listening to music; whispering in the ear; Someone with his ear against the door/wall | Cell 4 |
| Eat | Putting a hotdog into the mouth; sitting at the table with knife and fork in hands; holding a salad plate | Cell 4 | |
| Use | a tries to open jar, can't, picks up towel, opens jar | Cell 3 | Absent-minded dining philosopher admonished with chopsticks |
| Try | Jumping over and over again to reach something high; trying to lift a heavy box; trying on some shoes; have a taste of some food | trying to open a jar (from Jordan's idea) | |
| Ask | a asks b for directions, b points way | Student raising his hand and asks a question; asking about a product in a store/the menu in a restaurant | Cell 4 |
| Leave | Cell 2 | Waving goodbye and leaving the room; watching a car driving away | Cell 4 |
| Play | Cell 2 | Playing chess/swingset/piano/baseball | Cell 4 |
| Bet | a and b in front of trash can. b gives a money, b throws paper in, a gives double money back | Playing poker | Roulette wheel |
| Start | Cell 2 | Runners in the starting blocks; starting a timer | Cell 4 |
| Sit | Cell 2 | Sitting in a chair/on the ground | Cell 4 |
| Feel | one hand running over sandpaper, the other over felt | Touching the surface of something; quickly dipping a finger into hot water; feeling cold and then holding arms trembling; putting hands on the chest, feeling moved | Cell 4 |
| Shut | Cell 2 | Closing the door/window; shut the mouth/eyes | Cell 4 |
| Stop | b walks from stage left, halts mid stage | Making a stop gesture; stop the traffic; showing a stop sign; stop a rolling ball | pressing the stop button on a tape recorder/video recorder, etc. |
| Hope | Cell 2 | Someone praying/making a wish with eyes closed; keeping finger crossed; with arms outstretched | Cell 4 |
| Love | Cell 2 | A heart-shaped box of candy; man giving woman a flower; couple holding hands/hugging | hugging a teddy-bear or some other cute toy; hand(s) on your heart and in-love type of look on your face |
| Wait | (which meaning is desired?) looking at watch twiddling thumbs, or walking, halting, looking at watch, and then continuing walking | People waiting in a line; someone walking back and forth waiting for elevator/redlight/bus; looking at watch/playing with fingers from time to time | Cell 4 |
| Help | a walks b by supporting elbow | Giving a hand to pull someone up from the ground; Reaching something on top of a shelf for a short person; Helping to unfasten a knot on the back; Helping to lift a heavy box | Cell 4 |
| Bring | a points to object, a takes it over | Bring some dishes onto the table | Cell 4 |
| Stay | person b sitting, person A gesturing to move, person B points to present location | Holding a leaving man's arm to make him stay | Cell 4 |
| Pick | picking a flower | Someone bending down and picking something up; picking a pen/an apple out of several | looking at different colour card and picking one (this could be choose too) |
| Worry | pacing, wringing hands | Someone with hands on face/head in hands; standing up and sitting down from time to time; pulling hair | Cell 4 |
| Wonder | Cell 2 | Someone standing and thinking; holding his glasses and touching his chin | looking at an odd object and shrugging |
| Call | Cell 2 | Making a phone call; yelling | Cell 4 |
| Write | Cell 2 | Writing with a pen | Cell 4 |
| Turn | walking away from camera, turning right | A hand turning dial; Someone turning around/turning his head; spinning something | Cell 4 |
| Read | Cell 2 | Someone reading a book/newspaper | Cell 4 |
