'valencia Apple Kiwi' - VAK, An Introductory Enquiry

If I don't see the teacher, I can't follow what she says 

I can follow the teacher by listening to her

I feel bored sitting still. I need to do something always

I like questions that ask me to draw pictures

I like to say answers out loud or discuss them with a friend

I like to show my understanding by making models or doing projects

Look through a picture book or paint or draw a picture

Listen to a sing or a pre-recorded conversation

Do something physically, think up a story or go to a picnic spot

Watch a video but it has no sound

Listen to the dialogues in the video but you will not be shown the visuals

Go out and do some work or attend dance class

In the front where I can see the teacher

Where I can hear the teacher well and see the teacher occasionally

At the back where the teacher won't see what I am doing

I carry the voice of my teacher in my head. I can recollect it from memory

I remember my teacher's expressions, gestures etc or the charts and pictures she showed

I remember the emotions and actions of the teacher and what we did in class

Looking at the map, sketching the way on a piece of paper etc

Asking someone to tell me how to get there

Following my nose, exploring or by taking clues from the sun, landmarks etc

Sounds good

Looks good

Feels good

I look carefully at it, the illustrated cover-box or the manual if it is illustrated

I would listen to someone who has used it before

I go ahead, explore and figure it out as I use it

Sounds and voice

What you did or the emotional reactions of others or yours

Images, scenes or pictures

Watch how something is done

Listen to someone explain or discuss how it is done

Have a go and explore how it is done

Imagine or visualise how it would look on me or someone else

Discuss with the sales staff or others how it would look on me or someone

Try them on or imagine how I would feel inside them

I keep watching the musicians and others on the stage

I listen to the songs by words and beats

I move in rhythm with the music or feel the emotions the music stirs

Look through picture-books, do a painting or drawing, watch the sky or bring back memories as in pictures or videos

Talk to my parents or friends, listen to the Radio, or a story read aloud

Play, do something hands-on or otherwise get physically active

Watch how the teacher does it

Talk with the teacher what exactly I’m supposed to do

Give it a try myself and work it out as I go

I imagine what the food will look like or see the photographs on the menu card

I talk through the options in my head, with my partner or the waiter

Imagine what the food will taste like

The way they look, their dress, its colour etc

The way they sound, speak and respond verbally

Their gestures, actions and their behaviour

Holidays in scenic places or where you have a lot to see, photograph or draw

Holidays to listen to birds, stories or music or chat with friends and family

Holidays playing with friends, family or others, doing things and keeping busy physically

Will teach by drawing, sketching, writing or showing

Will teach by talking, discussing or explaining

Will teach by demonstrating or guiding them have a go

Sketching a scene or incident, looking at paintings, thinking of a colourful dress or drawing a picture in the mind

Singing aloud, listening to someone sing, read aloud or talking to others

Tidying up the room, playing a computer-game or going for a walk

Images and pictures from things in the past

Sounds and voices or my speaking or being spoken to

The feel of what I did or what someone else did or felt

Reading a story or my favourite book, flipping through the pages in a picture book, imagining a nice view from a trip or figuring out how best to draw a picture

Listing to an audio story, talking to my friends over the phone, remembering the words of my teacher or friend that made us all laugh

Getting wet in the rain, enjoying the cool breeze, cuddling up under the blanket, allowing the rays of the morning sun fall on me or having a cup of hot drink looking at the morning sun or similar

I sit close to the teacher and the board and keep watching the teacher

I sit where I can hear the teacher and the audio being played

Sitting in the class is boring. I therefore scribble something, think of a way to go out or pinch my neighbour or stamp on his/ her foot and pretend innocence

Faces

Names

Things a person usually does (like movements, gestures and actions)

I visualise or seem to see images of what it is going to be or what it was

Talk over in my head, converse with me or murmur

Can’t sit still, become restless, move around, tap the desk or clench my fist