the Whiteboard: Vivid Verbs

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Emotion
Movement
Gesture
Face

Body
Animal
Mechanical
Natural
Noise
Voice

Behaviour

Now let's have a chat

1. Do you sometimes conceal your real opinions? Why?

2. Do you have a special way of coaxing a cat to come up to you for a pat?

3. Is there anyone in your life that you might try to dodge of you saw them in the street? Why?

4. What's a kind of food or drink you despise?

5. Do you struggle to emerge from sleep in the morning or do you leap out of bed?

6. Can you successfully flip a pancake?

7. Who is a friend you love to goof around with? What sort of things do you do together?

8. Have you ever fainted? When was it? Where were you? Why did you faint?

9. When did you last have to haul furniture from one house or one room to another?

10. Do you sometimes honk the horn of your car at other drivers?

11. What time of day do you find it easier to focus on more creative things?

12. Do you enjoy hunting for bargains at secondhand shops?

In groups write a suitable noun next to any of these verbs: e.g. shatter + glass

Vivid verbs practice:

Write ten ten-word sentences using ten workhouse verbs.

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