Checklist:
I know how to deal with time concepts
I understand the "time line" concept and o'clock
I can recognize and sign numbers 101-999
I understand Topicalizing vs. SVO
I am able to recognize and sign the practice sentences and story for this lesson
I have taken the Lesson 6 Quiz
I am done with Lesson 6
Vocabulary:
COLOR
BLACK /
BROWN /
RED /
ORANGE
BLUE /
YELLOW
/
GREEN
WHITE
DRAW-(art)
FINISH
FUTURE-(later, will.
Variations: someday, far in the future)
LONG
NOW-(Synonyms: present, current,
today)
OLD
PAPER-(Variations: page,
look-up, dictionary)
PAST-(Synonyms: before,
previously. Variation: long-ago)
SELF
TOMORROW-(Also see: daily,
everyday)
WAIT
WHEN
YEAR-(Also see: annually, last-year, next-year, numerical incorporation)
Practice Sheet: 6.A
1. YOUR FAVORITE COLOR, WHAT? (What is your favorite color?)
2. NAME SOMETHING ITSELF BLACK WHITE (Name something that is black and
white.)
3. YOU LIKE COLOR BROWN? (Do you like the color brown?)
4. YOU DRAW GOOD? (Do you draw well?)
5. YOUR PARENTS DIVORCE? (Are your parents divorced?)
Practice sheet: 6.B
6. YOU FINISH WATCH MOVIE "__________?" (Have you seen the movie (spell a
popular movie))
7. YOU THINK FUTURE YOU TEACH ASL? (Do you think that someday you will teach
ASL?)
8. YOUR CHAIR GREEN? (Is your chair green?)
9. OLD YOU? (How old are you?)
10. HOW SIGN W-A-I-T? (How do you do the sign "wait?")
Practice sheet: 6.C
11. CITY YOU LIVE? (In what city do you live?)
12. HOW-LONG YOU LIVE INDEX-there (How long have you lived there?)
13. YOU WANT GO HOME NOW? (Do you want to go home now?)
14. WHAT COLOR YOUR PAPER? (What color is your paper?)
15. YOU LIVE BIG CITY PAST YOU? (Have you ever lived in a big city?)
Practice sheet: 6.D
16. YOU LIKE RED CAR? (Do you like red cars?)
17. TOMORROW YOU GO SCHOOL? (Are you going to school tomorrow?)
18. YOU GO DOCTOR, WAIT-(long), YOU SIT-anxious YOU? (Do you get anxious when
you wait a long time at the doctors office?)
19. WHEN YOU MOVE-(to here)? (When did you move here?)
20. HOW-MANY YEAR YOU LIVE HERE? (How many years have you lived here?)
Story 6
YEAR-PAST MY HOUSE ROOM ROOM WHITE A-L-L. NOW-YEAR MANY COLOR. MY BEDROOM BLUE. MY SISTER BEDROOM YELLOW. BROTHER WANT BEDROOM BLACK, DAD (say)-NO-(to-him-"sternly"). (Role play brother bodyshift face slightly left. Ask-to-father)-ORANGE? (Role play father bodyshift facing slightly right.) say-NO-(to-son-"sternly")-(Role play brother bodyshift face slightly left. Ask-to-father)-BROWN? (Role play father bodyshift facing slightly right. "Think about it for a moment" "reluctantly") say-O-K-to-son. MOM-DAD THEIR-(singular) BED-ROOM WHITE. BATHROOM YELLOW. FAMILY ROOM GREEN. OUR CAR RED.
Story Notes:
When you sign ROOM ROOM, modify the location a few inches. By this I mean, sign ROOM a little off-center to the right, then sign the second ROOM a little to the left. This is a way of pluralizing the concept of "room" to mean "rooms."
Later on we will learn the sign "DIFFERENT" but for now just sign "MANY" to indicate that the rooms in my house are "many different colors."
In the story, don't sign the "lower case" words. Instead, incorporate the concept of those lowercase words into your signing.
The sign for "THEIR-(singular)" means you are referring to your mom and dad as a single group (one set of parents) so you don't need to sweep the sign "THEIR" in this case. You can sign "THEIR-(singular)" by using the sign for "HIS/HERS/ITS." In fact, you don't really even need to sign any "possessive" sign in this situation because the order of the sentence (PARENTS BEDROOM) naturally indicates the bedroom belongs to the parents.
Dealing with time:
In English a person might say, "I went to a movie
last Saturday." Or, maybe "Last Saturday I went to a movie." Notice
how the concept of "go" is expressed as "went?" This is called
"conjugating" the verb to show tense. (Conjugate is just a big word
that means "change" or "join.") Another word for conjugate is
"inflect."
In ASL that sentence would be signed "PAST SATURDAY ME-(PRO1) GO MOVIE." (The "PRO1" means a first person pronoun, which is done by simply pointing at yourself with an index finger.) We use the same form of the concept "GO" for both present and past tense sentences. That is the way it is with most ASL sentences. We establish the "tense" or time-frame of a sentence by using certain "time signs" like "past week," "next month," "now morning," or "next year," and then the rest of the sentence uses typical non-conjugated signs. This technique works for whole paragraphs and/or conversations. Tense only needs to be established once at the beginning of an ASL conversation. All of the remaining signs use the same form regardless whether you are talking about the past, present, or future. For example, in the sentence, "TOMORROW ME-(PRO1) GO MOVIE" uses the same sign for "GO" as the sentence, "YESTERDAY ME GO MOVIE."
Now note, that the interpretation of "NOW AFTERNOON ME-(PRO1) GO MOVIE" depends on what time of day it is. If it is morning, then the sentence would be the equivalent of, "This afternoon I will go to a movie." If it is currently night time, the sentence would be interpreted as, "Today I went to a movie." The ASL signs are the same, but their meaning depends on what time of day the sentence is being signed.
Time Line: The general concept here is that you have a timeline that runs from behind you to in front of you. By doing a sign farther back you can indicate the concept occurred further in the past. The farther forward things are signed, the further in the future they are. Doing a sign close to your body can be used to indicate the nearness or recentness of an event.
O'Clock: This concept is expressed via touching the wrist prior to doing a number sign.
Topicalizing
vs. SVO:
When you use the object or object phrase of a sentence as the topic of
the sentence you are "topicalizing." An example of this would be:
WALK SCHOOL? Index-(me) DON'T-LIKE Index-(me) = "I don't
like walking to school."
An example of Subject Verb Object (SVO) would be:
I DON'T-LIKE WALK SCHOOL. = "I don't like walking to school."
Both of these forms are correct in ASL.
Old sentences (replaced by newer sentence in this curriculum)
2. BLACK WHITE TV, YOU HAVE? (Do you have a black and white TV?)