Planning & perpetration task 2: Eight Basic Effort Actions . . .

So the eight actions are:

- punch 

- flick

- dab

- wring 

- press 

- float 

- glide 

- slash

We had to put ourselves into pairs and once one of the actions were described, we had to come up with a movement for each one to remember it somehow. For example, for dab, we spoke quickly and lightly so it was understandable and we used our index fingers to look as if we were tapping some this every time we spoke and it worked quite well seeing as it's one of the few I can remember properly. Another would be float, in our pair, we came up with the idea of to actually act as if we were floating and just sort if exaggerate our words (kind of like hippies from the 60's is what I was thinking). 

The best way to pick out which of these to use in a script, is to look at the section you are reading and look at the first and last word of every line and that way you can not only what you are talking about, but also, the mood of the character, and this will help to decide which basic effort action is best for your speech.