to clap, clapped, clapped (one's hands)              to clench (one's fist)

        to cross (one's fingers)                                    to point at   sb /sth

   to shake, shook, shaken (sb's hand)      to stick out (one's tongue)

  to make, made, made a face                 to shrug (one's shoulders)

   to twiddle  (one's thumbs)                          to wink

    to stamp  (one's feet)                               to bow

    to cup, cupped, cupped (one's hands)          to nod, nodded, nodded (one's head)

English exercise "Gestures and expressions" created by lili73 (31-07-2008) with The test builder
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1.
In western cultures clap clenched cross cupping pointing shake stamping stuck out to bow to make directly with the index finger at a person is considered rude.

2.
Perry Como (1912-2001) American crooner
I clap clenched cross cupping pointing shake stamping stuck out to bow to make my fingers
Every time that you kiss me goodnight,
Even though you were holding me tight...

3.
_________A clap clenched cross cupping pointing shake stamping stuck out to bow to make fist is a persistent symbol of resistance and unity.

4.
This golfer has lost the ball. He is angry and is clap clenched cross cupping pointing shake stamping stuck out to bow to make his foot.

5.
The photographer Arthur Sasse tried to persuade Einstein to smile for the camera, but he had smiled for photographers so many times that day that he clap clenched cross cupping pointing shake stamping stuck out to bow to make his tongue instead.

6.
Nursery Rhyme:

My hands upon my head I'll place,
Upon my shoulders, on my face...
Then clap clenched cross cupping pointing shake stamping stuck out to bow to make them, one two three...

7.
You can't teach an old monkey clap clenched cross cupping pointing shake stamping stuck out to bow to make faces.

8.
Instead of shaking hands, people, in some Asian cultures, prefer clap clenched cross cupping pointing shake stamping stuck out to bow to make

9.
She is clap clenched cross cupping pointing shake stamping stuck out to bow to make her hands to hold an apple.

10.
Yevgeny Dzhergashvili and Winston Churchill clap clenched cross cupping pointing shake stamping stuck out to bow to make hands as Curtis Roosevelt looks on.
These three men have met for a debate 60 years after their grandfathers gathered for the Yalta Conference.

Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin (February 1945)