Imagine that you need to remember 3 items in order - for example, on your walk, you want to handle some chores:
doctor's prescription
buy a train ticket
buy wrapping paper
Pause a moment to imagine each of those items: this is a visual memory lesson - so focus on images more than written words!
In the next article, I will use an approach for memorising these items in order: a peg system; but in this article, the story method will be used:
If you can remember the first item (doctor's prescription) then you can imagine a story that involves the other two items; but not in any random order: the story needs to introduce those items in the same sequence as the list occusrs.
For example, I need to get my doctor's prescription and that involves buying a train ticket so that I can travel by train to see the doctor. I remember that it is the doctor's birthday; so I wrap the ticket in wrapping paper as an attempt at a birthday gift. If I can remember the bizarre story then I can remember the prescription, the train ticket and the wrapping paper.
Realising that a story is a way to remember a list of items, you might then believe that a good way to remember a huge list of facts (such as revision notes) is to imagine them occurring in sequence in one big story. This is more challenging than the 'peg system' approach which yuo will read about in the Blokes System article.
There is also the challenge that occurs when the fact that needs memorising is hard to visualise. Eg. the year 1793. It is hard to memorise! In this course, I present many ways in which hard-to-visualise items can be represented as images; they can then occur in a story or occur as a single item at a peg location.
Add spice to a story
If you have ten separate points to make in an essay and you need to remember them in order then you could imagine a very dramatic story where each item links up with the next one in the list: a linked list.
Have you ever watched a bioepic movie where something dramatic happens and you are not sure if that event really happened or they just put it into the story to add some drama? I watched a film about an astronaut recently where, in his new job, a receptionist assumes that he is a janitor; and she gives him keys so that he can do janitorial tasks. I think that the astronaut is based on a real astronaut but did the receptionist really mistake him for a janitor in real life? Or was it added spice for the story? That concept of 'adding spice' should be used in linked list memory stories because it makes the story more memorable.
Example linked word stories based on the article about the German language later in this course
These words are in lists of 4 words each. You can memorise the words and their order by telling the story in a way that starts with the first item and ends with the final item:
See an example story
| Egg, Ice, Ear, Oil |
| An egg is blasted by ice and gets covered by ice. The source of the ice is an ear which is on an oil barrel. [For the story sequence, story board it as a focus on an egg and then zoom out to the other components of the story. In that way, you memorise the word sequence.] |
Bath, Bit, Gas, Wheel |
| The bath has a stream of 0s and 1s digital bits gather in a gas cloud above the bath; the cloud reshapes into a wheel shape and rolls away. |
Ace, Deer, Kit, Gate |
| The Ace card has a deer in its centre rather than an Ace suit. A player adds it it a display of four other deer cards and exclaims that it is a 'set'. For this, the other player passes him the prize: a gate. |
Gene, Hay, Cape, Measure |
| A DNA spiral gene falls into a pile of hay. The hay is then heaped on top of a cape that is on the ground nearby. A taylor comes up to it and uses a tape measure to measure the cape. |
Eye, Ego, Praise, Valley |
| A man with one eye bigger than the other boasts to a crowd of people about it because of his ego. The crowd praise him by shouting, “Praise him! He has the best eye in the valley!” |
Car, House, Year, Child |
| A car drives into a house and collides with a wall calendar [the year]. A child takes the calendar off the wall and checks it for damage. |
Book, End, Hair, Word |
| A book has its page turn until it reaches a final 'End' page with 'End' written on it. There are hairs that falls on to that same page and land in an arrangement that spells 'Word' |
Leg, Blood, Money, Heart |
| A leg starts to bleed and a nurse covers it with a bank note [Money]. The patient's heart then slows down to a steady beat. |
Field, Shirt, Wood, Knee |
| A field has shirts fall from the sky into it. They thump down because they are made of wood and the shirt pattern is like a section of sliced wood. A farmer picks up a shirt and tests its woodenness by hitting it with his knee. He exclaims in pain [note: I added emotion to the story to make it more memorable.]. |
Picture, Country, Sea, Stuff |
| There is a picture that is turned around and thus we see that it is a picture of a map country bordered by white. Blue sea pours over the picture to turn the white into blue. You pick up the picture and lay it on top of a pile of other 'stuff'. |
Beer, Boat, Gold, Hole |
| Beer [each bottle reads: 0 per cent alcohol] is loaded on to a boat. It is payment for gold that is being off-loaded from the boat. The gold is dropped into a hole on land. |
Village, Grass, Couple, Team |
| A village consists of houses that are made of grass. A football match occurs between couples. One couple kicks a ball past the other couple and announce, “We are the best team in the village!” |
Subject, Photo, Chin, Folk |
| A model poses because she is the subject being photographed by the photographer. He points at her chin and says that the subject is 'people with big chins'. He points at the instantly developed photo and says that Folk like that sort of photo. Indeed, people gather around and appreciate the photo. |
Deck, Green, Pack, Rope |
| The deck of a boat is wood but green turf is unrolled to cover it. A bundle of Packs of cards are then lowered on to the green turf via a rope. |
Bread, Sofa, Animal, White |
| A loaf of brown bread has a slice cut off by an animal (a humanoid dog) and it is big enough to act as a sofa for two such animals. Although the slice is brown, it gradually turns to white. |
Lead, Horn, Salt, Tent |
| A lead pipe is treated as a horn by a camper. While blowing through it, salt is blown out and it sprinkles over a tent. |
Blue, Barrel, Glass, Cab |
| Blue paint pours over a barrel and it becomes blue. A waiter pours a drink from the tap of the barrel and carries it into a taxi. |
Evil, Good, Rear, Nest |
| An evil monster is overcome by goodness. It looks to its rear through a rear view mirror where it sees a nest approaching. |
Cafe, Fort, Calf, Net |
| At a cafe, a cake shaped like a fort is served to a customer. Out of the fort comes a miniature calf; and a net falls on it. |
Echo, Poison, Gray, Grain |
| A bat screeches and creates an echo. It is annoying to a cave dweller who pours some poison to kill the bat. The bat drinks it and turns gray. It falls over into an open bag of grain. |
Office, Lamb, Menu, Wit |
| You open an office door and see lambs working at desks where they are using typewriters to create menus. A sheep criticises a menu for lacking wit. “Wit! It needs wit!”, says the sheep. |
Baby, Song, Pony, Puff |
| A baby sings a song. A pony likes the song and so lifts the baby and gives it a ride. The pony walks into a puffy cloud. |
Bed, Roof, Raft, Neon |
| A bed is hoisted to a roof to act as a temporary cover over a hole in the roof. A raft is then lowered onto the bed to act as extra cover. The raft starts to flash a neon blue colour. |
Gentry, Fat, Flour, Target |
| Posh gentry eat a big meal and they all fatten as a result. Dessert arrives but it is just a plate of flour. So the gentry use skeet shooting rifles and launch the plates into the air and try to shoot them: target practice. |
Chicken, Canoe, Loaf, Shawl |
| A chicken hops into a canoe and paddles with its wings until it reaches a loaf of bread. It throws a shawl from the canoe onto the loaf. |
Fire, Logo, Plus, Right |
| A fire's flames spell 'Fire' as a logo. A plus-shaped projectile spins by the logo and clears the flames. Although it came from the right, the projectile slows and spins back rightwards and out of sight. |
Age, Hotel, Dress, Horse |
| Aged people go into a hotel. They grab a dress and take it to a horse and dress the horse in the dress. |
Leaf, Board, Leather, Radio |
| A leaf is put on a board by a chef. He whips it with a leather strap until it starts broadcasting radio signals (visual wave signals). |
Date, Iron, Ghost, Level |
| A date rubber stamp is stamped down on an iron ore. As a result, a wailing ghost emerges from the iron ore; and the ghost uses a 'spirit level' to test if the iron is truly flat. |
Alien, Prayer, Reading, Patch |
| An alien says a prayer because the sign he is trying to read makes no sense to him. He puts an eye patch over one eye and that allows him to focus and read properly. |
Account, Furniture, Pound, Video |
| A bank account log book of savings is thrown by a banker on to a furniture chair. A pound coin rols out of the log book and rolls away into the money slot of a video game machine. |
Breathing, Limb, Cross, Game |
| A doctor measures a patient's breathing by using a stethoscope. He asks the patient to extend all limbs to see if it affects the breathing. The patient tires and crosses his arms and legs. The doctor is angry and shouts, “This is not a game!” |
Lightning, Walking, Panel, Pace |
| Lightning hovers in the sky as it tries to decide who to scare. It sees a walker. So it sends a lightning bolt at a panel which the walker is walking past. The walker increases his pace because this has scared him. |
Device, Luck, Wire, Motel |
| A device has a 'Luck' button. A man presses it and a wire vibrates that runs from the device to a motel. At the motel, the 'No Vacancies' sign changes to 'Vacant'. |
Brown, Whole, Shelf, Sheep |
| A brown cartoon man is dressed in black but he wants to be totally brown. So he steps into some brown trousers and puts on a brown coat. “Now I am whole”, he says. A shelf then falls and hits him on the head. He is dizzy and sees sheep in his concussion and he tries to count them. |
Chaos, Vessel, Genius, Life |
| A swirling storm of chaos enters a man through his mouth and travels through his blood vessels. It turns him into a genius. “I am now a genius!”, he says; and he diverts the chaotic force to create sapling life on the ground beside him. |
Camp, Organ, Spray, Piece |
| A camp site has an organ donor tent. It is being sprayed by hygienists with cleansing spray; but the pressure of spraying breaks the spray bottles into pieces. |
Misery, Food, Jewel, Herb |
| A woman weeps in misery. “I am so miserable! I have no food!”. She points at jewels. “I can't eat these!”. A jeweller takes pity on her and gives her a herb. She complains to him that it is not her idea of food. |
Drama, Chick, Mat, Steak |
| A soap opera dramatic actress receives an award of a chick. Melodramatic music occurs to add to the drama. The music is coming from the mat which she is standing on. She complains bitterly that she does not like chicks and would have preferred a slice of steak. |
Album, Foyer, Sail, Topic |
| A photo album opens up. It has photos of a cinema foyer. In the foyer is a boat with a mast and a sail that drops down to billow in the wind. The usherette, nearby, says, “But this is a cinema! Can we please change the topic!” |
Chili, Package, Realm, Virus |
| A chili pepper is dropped into a package for posting to a fairytale realm. It contains a virus and gives the king a cold when he eats the chili. |
Camel, Motive, Victim, Swamp |
| A camel has a deerstalker hat like a detective. It declares, “I need to find motive!”. It uses its teeth to lift a male victim out of a swamp and on to its back. |
Light, Radar, Talking, Wreck |
| A lighthouse light acts as a radar. It is pinging but the lighthouse keepers are talking and so they do not notice that it has found an object. But then a 'Wreck' neon sign lights up and they turn their attention to the radar information about a wreck. |
Array, Lab, Wax, Being |
| An array of test tubes is next to an array of test tubes in a lab. They contain wax which, when poured out (by a scientist), assembles into a humanoid being. |
Aroma, Moss |
| A scent from a perfume spray device settles on some moss. |
Those were the 'Das' 5 letters or less word list from the German article. Next is the list for 'Die' words that are 5 letters or less when written in German:
| Door, Bar |
| A door is turned on its side to act as a counter in a bar. |
Rage, Watch, Cow, Marriage |
| A man rages as he glances at his watch. A cow passes by and it picks up his girlfriend. He exclaims, “That cow will make us late for our wedding!” |
Fairy, Sort [or Type], Era |
| An actress playing a fairy. The assistant exclaims, “You are dressed wrongly for this type of play!”. The fairy asks, “What era am I supposed to be in?” |
Deed, Grandma, Distress, DNA |
| A checklist action (deed) gets ticked off by the grandma. She is in distress because there are many other deeds listed on the checklist which still need to be done. The items are about DNA and that is not her speciality.; hence the distress. |
Time, Hand, Gust, Axe |
| A big clock has a human hand on the end of its minute hand. The clock hand is blown around full circle by a gust of wind. The clock's hand acts like an axe and chops a clock bell in half as it does its full circle. |
World, Wall, Air, Corner |
| The world is at a distance and a wall assembles to separate both hemispheres. An electric fan blows air at the wall and it changes shape under that pressure to create a corner. |
Nose, Skin, Earth, One |
| A person rubs his big nose and some old skin falls off it and lands on Earth. The person counts the occurrence and exclaims, “One!” |
Show, Rose, Shape |
| A stage show ends and the audience throw roses on to the stage. The lady actress steps up and twists a balloon into a poodle shape. |
Toe, Trousers, Farm, Tape |
| A toe has toe-size trousers which a farmer puts on before stepping into a field of crops. He then takes some tape from his pocket and wraps it around one of the crops. |
Speech, Mouse, Lie, Honour |
| A speech bubble appears with statement"Cats are good"; and a mouse approaches it and draws a line through its words. “That is a lie!”, says the mouse; and another mouse awards it a medal of honour for standing up to the lie. |
Post, Grade, Mine, Height |
| A letter comes through a letterbox. A student opens it to see his exam grade. It is so bad that he throws the paper down a mine shaft. It falls past a long ruler measure of the height of the drop. |
Tour, Trace, Hatch, Duck |
| A group of people on a tour are told by the leader that they have to look for traces: clues. One tour member discovers a hatch and lifts it to reveal a duck underneath. |
Iris, Idea, Witch, Vein |
| An eye (iris) has an idea thought bubble appear above it. A witch climbs out of the thought bubble and stares into the eye at veins which have just now become visible. |
Rest, Ford, Woman, Tide |
| A male traveller is resting. He sits up and sees a ford close by. A woman steps out of the ford and that creates a tide that rushes in his direction. |
Zone, Vine, Mommy, Coke |
| A car park has each storey level as a zone. A vine extends from the top storey down to a mother. She uses the vine as a bottle-opener for the cola bottle which she just took out of her pocket. |
League, Hunting, Goose, Owl |
| A football league table has its order of who is in the lead rearranged by a hunter. A goose walks up and pecks him. An owl flutters along and comes to rest on top of the goose. |
Agony, Opera, Bunk, Goodness |
| An 'agony aunt' sings in an operatic voice about someone having a marital problem. The husband snores in the top bunk of their bunk bed. So the wife, on the lower bunk, exclaims, “Goodness!” |
Vase, Fashion, Lust, Diet |
| A vase has a picture on it of a model on a fashion catwalk. An antique collector shows lust to own the valuable vase. He offers a 'diet can drink' to the seller in exchange for the vase. |
Choice, Pose, Grave, Can |
| A tv screen 'Yes or No' choice selection is made: the Yes. This causes a model to pose on a seat. The seat lowers into a grave – at which point the model opens a can drink that was hidden until now. |
Sweet, Seam, Dune, Bank |
| A spoonful of sugar is sprinkled over the seam of some sewing machine work. The sugar is so much that a dune develops and buries the sewing machine. The operator needs to go to a bank to borrow money to buy a new sewing machine. |
Scan, Saw, Vulva, Lady |
| An image scanner has its lid closed; and then is sawn in half. Despite that, a gynaecological image appears on a screen; and a lady steps up to analyse it. |
Thing, Night, People, Lava |
| A blob-like creature (thing) comes out as night begins. It chases people but is eventually washed away by lava. |
Week, Side, Line, Question |
| A calendar sheet of a week is turned over onto its other side. A witness draws lines across that side and a detective asks questions about what the lines mean. |
City, Kitchen, Lip, Love |
| A city seen from a distance is a tile decorating a kitchen. The chef kisses the tile with his lips. He declares, “I love this city!” |
Sun, Music, Power, Hell |
| The sun begins to broadcast music notes; those notes go into a television and it starts up and presents a tv show named 'Hell'. |
Tear, Scene, Party, Cat |
| Tears drop from a sad person's face. Zooming back, I see that it is a scene on a cinema screen. It is a successful movie and the audience start to party. While they do so, a cat crosses the projector and creates a large cat shadow on the screen. |
Cloud, Cheek, Aunt, Note |
| A cloud has a human feature of having cheeks. An aunt tels her nephew how strange the cloud is. He seriously starts writing notes about it. |
Cup, Art, Figure, Flower |
| A cup has an artist draw on it. He looks across at a posed figure to try to draw its likeness on the cup. When he is finished, he puts a flower in the cup. |
Trip, Jacket, Island, Heat |
| A roadmap has a line marking a trip. Zooming back, the map is the decoration on the back of a jacket. The owner of the jacket throws the jacket across some water and it lands on an island. The heat there sizzles the jacket. |
Turn [turning point], Soul, Palm, Front |
| A crank wheel turns. The person doing it begins to smile [at that turning point]; and likes the experience and says, “It is good for the soul.”. As he turns the wheel, a palm tree but the person turns it to face front: “This needs to face front”, he says. |
Tongue, Row, Force, Chest |
| A tongue is sticking out of a mouth. Zooming back, I see several people in a row who are doing the same. This creates an electrical force from their tongues that helps resuscitate a chest. |
Counter, Forehead, Size, Stage |
| A shop counter has a man come and sit down on it and start pointing at his forehead. “Is this the right size?”, he asks. A stage director walks up and says, “That was perfect! You pass the audition.” |
Gun, Nature, Fist, Army |
| A gun is fired and nature manifests in front of the shooter (trees and bushes). He waves his fist at the nature tree line; and an army emerge from it and approach him. |
List, Gesture, Ceiling, Couch |
| A list of items is on a scroll. A nearby wizard picks it up and gestures with the other hand; that causes the list to ascend to the ceiling. Exhausted, the wizard lies down on a couch. |
Rule, Cap, Lily, Hip |
| A wall sign lists rules about caps. The first rule has an image of a lily beside it because no cap is allowed to be lily green. A man hobbles up with a stiff hip. He has a lily green cap and throws it to the floor in disgust. |
Milk, Chain, Card, File |
| A bottle of milk has a chain be wrapped around it. A card is then propped up against the bottle. By a milkman. He takes out a handheld scanner and scans the data from the card. |
Lamp, Cold, Jeans, Drive |
| A lamp looks warm but ice cubes are coming out of it (cold). There is a jeans van parked waiting for the ice to melt off of the road (the van has a big image of jeans on it). When the ice melts, the van drives away to continue its journey. |
Series, Mask, Bay, Breeze |
| There is a series of boxes on a cliff top. A sailor opens a few boxes and they all contain masks. He throws the masks down into the bay. A breeze catches the masks and blows them back at him. |
Desert, Cream, Pause, Candle |
| A desert sand has a puddle of cream develop; a stopwatch times it; and then the puddle stops growing and the stopwatch records the pause; and then a candle rises out of the puddle. |
Wound, Silk, Length, Alley |
| A spider hobbles because it has a leg wound. It spins some silk to bandage its leg. It then measures out a particular length of silk to apply a bow to the dressing. It then wanders off down an alley. |
Tube, Rat, Data, Ash |
| A tube of cream is approached by a rat. It memorises the 1s and 0s data written on the tube; and spontaneously turns into ash. |
Doll, Magic, Oak, Bean |
| A doll is dressed as a magician by a child. The child places the doll on an oak tree branch and that vibration causes beans on the branch to topple on top of the child. |
Needle, Lobby, Shore, Colour |
| A needle is carried by a hotel porter on a porter trolley into the lobby of the hotel. He places the trolley beside a large painting of a sandy shore. There is paint nearby and he uses a brush to paint the shore a green colour. |
Panic, Lung, Feather, Bomb |
| A lady has a hyperventilating panic attic. A doctor puts his hand on her chest and tells her to calm her lungs. She points at a pile of feathers as the reason for her panic. The pile then explodes like a bomb. |
Warmth, Sock, Pit, Bride |
| An electric heater is warming a room. A nearby sock on a clothes stand is drying. It falls off the stand and into a pit. A bride is in the pit and the sock lands on her head. |
Soup, Search, Route, Coin |
| A bowl of soup is drunk by a rescuer before he turns on his helmet lamp and starts searching. He refers to a handheld map for the route he wants to search. He spots a coin and beckons other searchers to look at his important discovery. |
Column, Rib, Pill, Scar |
| A Greek column topples and hits a tourist in the rib. A medic gives the injured man a pill. The medic points at a scar at the rib and says, “You've been injured there before!” |
Sin, Round, Firm, Blouse |
| A person is begging on his knees for forgiveness for a sin. Other beggars join by forming a circle around him. He declares, “We should become incorporated as a firm!”. A beggar says, “But I have no skills. I only know how to create blouses!”; and holds up a blouse as evidence. |
Union, Curl, Fork, Bubble |
| A union picket line has pickets with curly hair. One of them holds up a fork as part of a protest. Bubbles appear out of the fork and float up into the air. |
Depth, Plain, Bible, Gang |
| A sailor is measuring depth by dropping a weighted rope (with measurement markings) into the sea from his boat. He is offered a better quality rope by another sailor but he shakes his head and says, “I like this plain one.”. A third sailor approaches with a bible and says, “We are now a gang.” |
Scale, Gap, Claw, Trap |
| An earthquake happens and a scale measures it as a high 8. A gap opens in the road beside the scale. A claw appears as a giant creature clambers out. It steps out but a cage trap comes down and lands on it. |
Widow, Practice, Ranch, Crow |
| A widow in a veil has an exercise book to practise maths involving horses. She takes it to a ranch to present as evidence to the head of the ranch that she would be good as a rancher. A crow lands on the book during the interview. |
Wool, Paw, Soap, Bee |
| A ball of wool starts rolling because a cat approaches the ball and uses its paw to push it. The ball rolls into a soapy soap dish. A bee comes to rest on the soapy woollen ball. |
Care, Nun, Crown, Grace |
| A box of bandages and disinfectant for caring for people is open. A nun picks up a bandage from the box and wraps it around a king's crown while the king is wearing the crown. He says, “Thanks! You did that very gracefully!” |
Mansion, Pump, Pearl, Lens |
| A mansion has a foot pump at its large front doors. Pearls fall out of the window above and press on the pump. This causes a mechanical operation where a security camera nearby adjusts its lens. |
Goat, Suite, Pizza, Fear |
| A goat is led by a hotel worker to a suite apartment. The goat asks the worker to bring it a pizza. The worker is not used to a talking goat and his face is full of angst. |
Meadow, Coal, Crate, Share |
| A flowery meadow has a person digging up coal in its centre. He throws lumps of coal into two crates, saying, “This has to be in equal shares.” |
Ink, Ramp, Rent, Brand |
| A pot of ink is picked up and carried up a ramp by an estate agent into a new home. The new tenant dips a pen into the ink and signs a contract for renting the place. To give the contract authority, the estate agent uses a cattle brand on the contract: leaving the brand logo of the estate agent on the contract. |
Sauce, Mill, Middle, Crisis |
| A gravy sauce container has a pepper mill (shaped like a windmill) twisted above it so that pepper mixes in with the gravy. The chef doing it frowns any time pepper does not go exactly into the middle. He says, “It must be the middle or else there will be a crisis!” |
Dignity, Bark, Curve, Cottage |
| An upper class person in a horse riding outfit stands with snooty expression and says, “I am dignified!”. There is a tree next to him and he pulls off a strip of bark and bends it into a curve. He then throws the curved bark onto the thatched roof of a nearby cottage. |
Bet, Revenge, Logic, Crop |
| A gambler loses a bet and tears up his betting slip. “I vow revenge!”, he shouts. He studies a logical analysis of horse racing probabilities. “That's logical!”, he exclaims. So he places a bet but his horse's running lane is blocked by crops; so his bet loses. He us upset again. |
Vest, Pasture, Amount, Celebration |
| A vest lies alone on green grass . Zooming out, a cow is grazing in a pasture when it steps over the vest and accidentally wears it. The farmer realises what a spectacle this is and so he sells tickets to see the cow to the locals. He displays a price tag for entry: an amount. He receives a lot of fees and so he jumps up and down celebrating. |
Mare, Plague, Lance, Bullet |
| A mare (female horse ) starts sneezing because it has the plague. To stop it from gong into coma, a farmer pokes it with a lance. It suddenly recovers and shoots off. The farmer says, “That's the speed of a bullet!” |
Mosquito, Lodge, Herd, Pea |
| A mosquito buzzes around and lands on the roof of a ski lodge. A herd of cows barge into the lodge and trample peas which are halfway across the main room. |
Pigeon, Left, Prey, Basis |
| A pigeon flies but can't help but veer leftwards. A bird of prey is trying to catch it but the leftward movement is hard to predict. The pigeon eventually arrives safely at base. "The bird of prey says, "Your flying pattern has a good basis." |
Fold, Down, Berry, Avenue |
| A folded blanket has a feather down pillow laid across the top of it. A pillow case with a berry pattern is put on the pillow. A lady carries the blanket and pillow to a homeless person on the avenue. |
Acid, Void, Pod, Hedge |
| An acid is poured from its glass container by a scientist. Every floor layer the acid hits, it burns through to create a void. “A void!”, exclaims the scientist. But, at a deeper floor, the acid drops on pea pods and can not burn through them. The scientist sweeps up the acid-stopping pods and throws them into a hedge. |
Wave, Sum, Carrot, Help |
| A surfer rides a wave. He wins a surfing competition and a sum of money is handed to him by a judge. But the surfer says he prefers to have a carrot. The judge says, “You need help!” |
Cedar, a delicate boy, Mass, Cave |
| A cedar tree is being climbed by a boy but the other boy is delicate and refuses to climb the lowest part of the tree. He leaves and starts to play with mass weights on a scale balance. But the scale sinks with him into a cave where he is afraid. |
Expanse, Loyalty, Phase, Comb |
| A wide open plain (expanse) is where two armies prepare to fight. A man stood between the two armies has to choose which side he is loyal to. A general shouts, "Aren't you loyal to us?" He walks away and says, "No, that was just a phase."; and he walks away over a crest of a hill and soon starts to comb his hair. |
Sausage, Crumb, Flora, Blossom |
| A sausage maker has a sausage and tries to roll it in bread crumbs. In doing so, some crumbs fall off his table and land in the petals of some flora. The petals spread out and blossom. |
Cell, Sole, Roll, Birch |
| Plant cells, as seen under a microscope, are sliced off of a plant stem and used as gum to fix a hole in the sole of a shoe. The shoemaker can then go walking to the bakery and buy a roll. He sits in a birch tree and eats it. |
Cradle, Syllable, Olive, Ferry |
| In a cradle is a baby who has never spoken. Suddenly, the baby says a first syllable: “Ol”. The parent encourages the baby to say the full word: “Olive”. Once that is achieved, the parent takes the baby on a ferry to see the grandparents and demonstrate that a word has been spoken. |
Resentment, Flute, Poverty |
| A clarinet player is kicked out of an orchestra because the flute player is better. So the clarinet player says, "I resent this!". He knocks the flute with his clarinet. The flautist says, "I can't earn a living now! I will be poor!". |
, Jury, Hurry |
| A prostitute walks into a court room. A jury are waiting for that defendant. The judge instructs everyone in the jury to hurry and uses his hands to urge speed. The jury then start to hurriedly fidget. |