Passage 4 Passage 4 Radio Program: Radio Program:

GesturesGestures

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Notes Notes TextTextExercise 1Exercise 1Exercise 2Exercise 2

thumb

Index finger

middle finger

pinky finger ring finger

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Radio Program: Wordmaster

DJ: Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble

Interviewee: Melissa Wagner

Topic: Gestures

""Field Guide to Field Guide to GesturesGestures" is the name " is the name of the book, and of the book, and Melissa Melissa WagnerWagner starts with one that starts with one that Americans would Americans would immediately recognize as immediately recognize as the sign for "OK."the sign for "OK."

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Say OK with a big

smile

Belgium:France:

Japan:

Want your change in coins

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Loser

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Meaning:

said something dumb

a chiding gesture

joking disapproval

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Scold mildly

Favorite: Horns gesturesFavorite: Horns gestures

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Texas LonghornsTexas Longhorns

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Texas Football Team

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Texas LonghornsTexas Longhorns

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Rock-and-rollers

make this gesture at concerts or just kind of to show an affinity with each other

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natural attraction

it can actually mean your wife is cheating

on you

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5? 4?2

thumb

Index finger

middle finger

pinky finger ring finger

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Gesture 1:

Index finger and the thumb come together to make a ring, and then the three other fingers on the hand kind of splay out

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Gesture 2:

both thumb and index finger out, and the other three fingers curled under. You're making kind of an L with your thumb and index finger

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Gesture 3:

your index and pinky fingers are held straight and then your thumb comes down and holds the two middle fingers down.

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作者单位：庞加光

西安交通大学