Welcome to Unit Seven!
You guys are doing very well! Keep up the practice, and please send me any work that you have yet to complete. We are going to be covering more difficult concepts and receptive quizzes from here on, so it is VERY important that you are caught up on your work. I still need to receive recordings from some of you for your expressive test videos, as well as the answers to the written part of Test One.
Assignments for this unit:
* Learn the vocabulary for Unit Seven below.
* Continue to study the alphabet as we will begin using fingerspelling more and more.
* When you have completed the assignments above and feel pretty good about what you have learned, you can click on the embedded YouTube video (35:05). It is a discussion between Dr. Bill and one of his students. It is very clear. Even if you don't understand something he is saying, focus on the text on the screen behind him, and it will make sense.
* Learn the information at the bottom of the page on pronouns.
I will be posting the quiz for this unit in 2-3 weeks.
*NEW*
We will have another grade for this unit. I will be signing a video and asking you to interpret it into English. I will pause briefly between sentences to make it easier. I will announce when this video is posted.
Let me know if you have any questions. You can email me at [email protected].
Unit Seven Vocabulary:
AND
APPLE
CANDY
CEREAL
CHEESE
COOKIE
CUP
DRINK
EAT (FOOD)
EGG
TASTE
FULL (2 VERSIONS)
HAMBURGER
HOT DOG
HUNGRY (WISH)
MILK
PIZZA
POPCORN
SOUP
WATER
WHAT KIND
You guys are doing very well! Keep up the practice, and please send me any work that you have yet to complete. We are going to be covering more difficult concepts and receptive quizzes from here on, so it is VERY important that you are caught up on your work. I still need to receive recordings from some of you for your expressive test videos, as well as the answers to the written part of Test One.
Assignments for this unit:
* Learn the vocabulary for Unit Seven below.
* Continue to study the alphabet as we will begin using fingerspelling more and more.
* When you have completed the assignments above and feel pretty good about what you have learned, you can click on the embedded YouTube video (35:05). It is a discussion between Dr. Bill and one of his students. It is very clear. Even if you don't understand something he is saying, focus on the text on the screen behind him, and it will make sense.
* Learn the information at the bottom of the page on pronouns.
I will be posting the quiz for this unit in 2-3 weeks.
*NEW*
We will have another grade for this unit. I will be signing a video and asking you to interpret it into English. I will pause briefly between sentences to make it easier. I will announce when this video is posted.
Let me know if you have any questions. You can email me at [email protected].
Unit Seven Vocabulary:
AND
APPLE
CANDY
CEREAL
CHEESE
COOKIE
CUP
DRINK
EAT (FOOD)
EGG
TASTE
FULL (2 VERSIONS)
HAMBURGER
HOT DOG
HUNGRY (WISH)
MILK
PIZZA
POPCORN
SOUP
WATER
WHAT KIND
REPEATING OF PRONOUNS
ASL grammar sometimes repeats the subject pronoun at the end of a sentence. For example, "SUPPOSE YOU EAT 3 HAMBURGER, WILL FULL YOU?"
A more simple example is, "I TEACHER I." That is perfectly acceptable ASL grammar. You can also sign it "I TEACHER" or "TEACHER I."
Often times when we are signing we tend to repeat a pronoun at the end of our sentences. For example:
YOU GO YOU?
That sentence might be used to ask someone if they are going to some (already established in the conversation) place. Think of the repeated pronoun as filling the same function as vocal inflection does for hearing people. It is used when asking questions or emphasizing statements. If I want to know if someone "is going" -- I might repeat the pronoun and hold it there for an extended time as a way of making it clear that I want an answer.
I could also just sign: (with appropriate facial expressions)
GO YOU?
or
YOU GO?
All three versions are "correct.
A version that wouldn't be correct in ASL would be
INCORRECT VERSION: "ARE"-(English sign) YOU GO+ING
Using a separate sign for "ARE" and adding a suffix "ING" to this sentence takes it out of the realm of ASL and moves it into the realm of signed English.
Note:
FOOD and EAT use the same sign.
If you need to differentiate between the signs, use a small double motion for food and a single normal motion for eat. For the "process of eating" use a somewhat larger double motion. To sign "pig out" alternate using both hands with large movements and lots of facial expression.
Note: It would be perfectly fine to sign: WHAT-KIND CANDY YOU LIKE?
If you sign: "CANDY, WHAT-KIND YOU LIKE ?" you would use a yes/no question expression (eyebrows up, head tilted forward a bit) while signing "CANDY" and then you would switch to a "wh-question" expression (eyebrows down, head tilted a bit back) for the "WHAT-KIND LIKE YOU?"
Note: It is just as correct to sign "YOU LIKE EAT RED APPLE?" as it is to sign, "APPLE, RED, YOU LIKE EAT YOU?" Both sentences mean: Do you like to eat red apples?
"ABCOS15"
The letters and numbers "ABCOS15" are the typical hand shapes formed by your non-dominant hand while signing. Another term for non-dominant hand is your "base" hand. For two-handed signs in which the two hands don't have the same handshape you will notice that almost without exception the non-dominant hand is in one of these shapes: "ABCOS15." You see these shapes on the non-dominant signing hand when it is providing a stationary base for your "in-motion" dominant hand.
(from Lifeprint.com, Dr. Bill Viccars)