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Lesson 3 Checklist: Vocabulary:
Practice sheet: 3.A1. "NAME YOU?" 2. "CITY YOU LIVE?" 3. "YOU LIKE LEARN SIGN?" 4. "YOUR HOUSE BIG?" 5. "HOW-MANY CHILDREN YOU?" 6. "YOUR HOUSE, HOW MANY BATHROOM?" 7. "WHERE YOU WORK?" 8. "YOU LIKE YOUR WORK?" 9. "YOU THINK I SIGN GOOD?" 10. "HOW YOU SIGN "A-L-L"?"
Practice Sheet 3.B1. "WHO YOU?" 2. "WHERE FROM YOU?" 3. "YOU LIVE HERE?" 4. "FAMILY DEAF?" 5. "YOUR HOUSE SMALL?" 6. "YOU WANT MORE CHILDREN?" 7. "YOU GO SCHOOL??" 8. "YOU NEED BATHROOM?" 9. "YOU THINK I SIGN BAD?" 10. "HOW YOU SIGN "F-I-N-E"?"
Practice Sheet 3.C 1. "MY NAME________, WHO YOU?" 2. "YOU FROM HERE?" 3. "YOU LIKE BIG CITY?" 4. "YOU MARRIED?" 5. "YOU WANT STOP LEARN SIGN?" 6. "YOU LIKE SHE?" [point at a student] 7. "YOU LIKE GO WORK?" 8. "YOU LIKE ALL STUDENTS HERE?" 9. "YOU THINK THIS CITY NICE?" 10. "HOW YOU SIGN "ASK-TO"?" ---------Practice Sheet 3.D 1. "NICE-TO-MEET YOU. " 2. "WHERE YOU LIVE?" 3. "YOU LIKE SMALL CITY?" 4. "YOU SINGLE?" 5. "YOU LIKE [HE/SHE] TEACHER?" 6. "YOU LIKE COME HERE?" 7. "WHAT CITY YOU WORK?" 8. "HOW SPELL YOUR NAME?" 9. "YOU WANT MEET MY MOM?" 10."HOW YOU SIGN "H-E-A-R-I-N-G"?"
Story 3MY FAMILY ALL LIKE GO GRANDMA HOUSE. SHE LIVE CITY SMALL. NAME RIVERDALE. HER HOUSE BIG. BATHROOM HAVE THREE. MY DAD GROW-UP THERE. THINK HOUSE SWELL. I THINK SO-SO. RIVERDALE SCHOOL DAD DON'T-LIKE. WHY? TEACHER THEY BAD. ONE NICE TEACHER. M-R-S. SMITH. DAD PREFER-(favorite) SHE-(index on left). SHE GOOD. THAT SCHOOL NEED MORE GOOD TEACHER.
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Discussion: [Topic: "Facial Expressions"] Changing your facial expression; tilting, shaking, or nodding your head; and hunching your shoulders are all "nonmanual markers." The term "nonmanual marker" means a signal that you do without using your hands that influences (marks) the meaning of what you are signing. Think of NMMs as "signs that you do without using your hands." [Topic: "grammar"] American Sign Language has its own unique syntax. You will notice that it is indeed different from that of English.. In general, the order of our words in a sentence follows a "TOPIC" "COMMENT" arrangement. This is could also called "subject" + "predicate" sentence structure. (A predicate is a word, sign, or phrase that "says something" about the subject.) For example, in the English sentence, "Sarah is sleepy." Sarah is the topic or subject. The comment or predicate consists of "is sleepy." Since ASL doesn't use "be verbs" the sentence would be signed as "SARAH SLEEPY" while nodding your head. You will also see this structure: "TIME" + "TOPIC" + "COMMENT." For example:
All of the above examples are "correct." You could sign any of those sentences and still be signing ASL. My philosophy is to do the "correct" version that works for the greatest number of signers. I've lived in Utah, California, Indiana, Washington D.C., Texas, and Oregon, plus I've visited quite a few other places. It has been my experience during my various travels that "I STUDENT" and "I FROM UTAH" work just fine and are less confusing than "STUDENT I" and "FROM UTAH I." The sentence "WHERE FROM YOU?" is used to ask where you are originally from. As far as a sentence without "be" verbs,
the English sentence "I am a teacher" would be signed: [Topic: "directionality"] Suppose I index BOB on my right and FRED on my left. Then I sign "GIVE-TO" from near my body to the place where I indexed Bob. That means, "I give to Bob." If I sign GIVE TO starting the movement from the place off to the right and move it to
the left it means Bob gave to Fred. If I sign starting from off to the left and bring the sign GIVE TO toward my body what
would it Sandy: "Fred give to me?" DrVicars: Right. [Topic: "tense"] Sandy: How do you establish tense at that point? DrVicars: Tense would be established before signing the rest of the sentence. I would
say, "YESTERDAY ME-GIVE-TO B-0-B" The fingerspelling of BOB would be immediately
after the ME-GIVE-TO and I would spell B-O-B slightly more to the right than normal. That way I Lii: Can tense be done at end of sentence, or is that confusing? DrVicars: That is confusing--I don't recommend it. I can however give you an example of "appropriately" using a time sign at the end of a sentence. Suppose I'm talking with a friend about a problem that occurred yesterday and I sign: TRY FIND-OUT WHAT-HAPPEN YESTERDAY. DrVicars: That sentence talks about a situation that happened before now, but the current conversation is happening now. Some people might try to put the sign "YESTERDAY" at the beginning of that sentence, but I wouldn't--it feels awkward. [Topic: suffixes] Lii: How does one go about using ing, s, and ed endings ? Does it need to be done? Sandy: Similar question - how do we use punctuation--other than emphasis with the face? Just pause? DrVicars: Again a good question. Okay then, let me go ahead and answer both questions briefly here, then we'll hear comments from those of you who have them. DrVicars: "s" is a pluralization topic. You can pluralize any particular
concept in a number of ways. So far in our lessons we have been using a sweeping motion, (To turn the word
"HE" into the word "THEY"). "ed" is established by using a "tense
marker" like PAST or is understood by DrVicars: Now, punctuation. You are right, you punctuate a sentence via your pauses and facial expressions. DrVicars: "ing, ed, and other suffixes are not used in ASL. If I want to change "learn" into "learning" I simply sign it twice to show it is a process. Many times the "ing" is implied. For example, "YESTERDAY I RUN" would be interpreted as "Yesterday I went for a run," or you could interpret it as, "Yesterday I went running." How you interpret it would depend on the rest of the message (context). If you want to sign dying as opposed to "die" or "dead" you would do the sign slower (more drawn out) and not quite "finish" the sign before moving on to the next sign in your sentence. Topic: Politically correct vs. Culturally correct Near the end of the twentieth century, the hearing political
community pushed the idea that it was "politically correct" to
call Deaf and hard of hearing people "hearing impaired." So
for quite a while the general public worked hard at using the label
"hearing impaired" as a way of referring to Deaf people.
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