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ASL American Sign Language (42 bytes)   

ASL American Sign Language (42 bytes)

ASL American Sign Language (42 bytes)
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Lesson 34
ASL American Sign Language (42 bytes) ASL American Sign Language (42 bytes) ASL American Sign Language (42 bytes) ASL American Sign Language (42 bytes)

Vocabulary:
CHARACTER
ESTABLISH-[set-up]
GOAL
LOCATIONS-[top, bottom, side, beneath]
MUSIC-[song, sing, singer, POETRY]
OCEAN/sea
PAY-ATTENTION-[focus, concentrate]
RACE-[compete]
RIVER
ROCK / stone
SKATING-[ice-skating, roller-blading]
SKI
SKILL-[good-at, talent, EXPERT]
THEATER-[act, actor, drama, play, show]
VOLLEYBALL
TEMPERATURE

Note:  the following is a list of answers to the ASLU Quiz video for this lesson.

**130. GOAL
** 135. STONE-version 2
**137. SKI
** 142. sing
**145. SIDE
**146. ROCK-(version 1)


Practice sheet 34.A
01. FUNNY BOOK CHARACTER, WHO YOUR FAVORITE?
02.  HOW SIGN B-O-T-T-O-M-(fs)? (or substitute TOP, or SIDE)
03. POETRY YOU WRITE?
04. OCEAN, YOU LIKE SWIM
05. WHY YOU NEED PAY-ATTENTION ASL TEACHER?

Practice sheet 34.B
06. CAR RACE YOU LIKE WATCH? 
07. NAME RIVER YOU FINISH TOUCH.
08. YOU LIKE ROCK COLLECT?
09. YOU LIKE SKATING-(roller)?
10. SNOW SKI YOU?

Practice sheet 34.C
11. YOU LIKE VOLLEYBALL
12. YOU SKILL WHAT?
13. HOW SIGN A-C-T-O-R?
14. YOU SWIM SAME FISH?
15. CARPENTRY SKILL YOU?

Practice Sheet 34.D
16. GOAL YOU SET, WHAT?
17. SUPPOSE THIS CLASS, YOU GONE, MUST BRING-to-here EXCUSE? [If you are absent from class do you have to bring an excuse?]
18. TALK DURING TEST, CAN?
19. GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY, WHEN ESTABLISH?  (1864)
20. YOUR NEPHEW HAVE SIGN BOOK?





Objectives:
Discussion:
Americans with Disabilities Act

Note: 
When you see dashes between letters, that generally means to fingerspell the word.
Also, sometimes you might see "fs" when someone is writing about ASL. The letters "fs" are sometimes used as a shorthand for "fingerspell."

Cultural note:
ASL is much less gender (male/female) based than most languages. It might just be the most gender free language on the planet.  (Good topic for a research paper, eh?) For example: In ASL we don’t use two separate signs for actor and actress.
Also,  there is distinction between the signs "HE" and "SHE."  You just point off to the side, or if the person is in the room you point at them.
 

ASL Note: 
Note: some instructors don’t like the initialized versions of BREAKFAST, LUNCH, and DINNER, they prefer the “eat morning” “eat noon” and “eat night” versions. But many Deaf out in the community use the initialized versions, and I've never met a skilled ASL user who didn't recognize the initialized version--so I teach those versions as being ASL. Yet you will still see disagreement amongst instructors. Oh well.  When in doubt, do it the way your current instructor does it because he or she is the one who gives the grades.




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