1. Master ASL Unit Seven
Student booklet

2. My Daily Routine To sign about daily routines and activities
Objectives:
To sign about daily routines and activities
To identify and understand noun-verb pairs in ASL
To describe clothing
To learn and use spatial organization
To apply turn-taking strategies in conversations
To understand the sign language continuum (continuous sequence of ASL concepts and their relation to each other)

4. ~ Every signs are part of the when group of signs ~ They come first in the sentence ~Every (day) signs are made using the hand shape for the day of the week, moving it downwards *** think moving down the calendar***
Every days:

5. Every…

6. Notice the compound sign: breakfast

7. More morning routine…

8. To shave… ~ Change the location of the to shave sign to modify its meaning. ~ The x form of to shave is not used on the head.

9. … and more

10. Around between

11. Spatial Organization aka Shoulder Shifting pg. 262
When using spatial organization you may also need to use the listing and ordering technique

12. Evening Routines

13. FREQUENCY

14. For - For
For – for is used to ask:
“what for?
“why did you do that? “

15. EXPRESSION CORNER
THE ERRANDS SIGN IS A COMMON EXPRESSION TO SAY YOU HAVE A LOT TO DO. USE ERRANDS TO SIGN ABOUT BEING BUSY IN GERNEAL OR WHEN DESCRIBING SPECIFIC ERRANDS.

16. Personal Hygiene & Care: Many common hygiene products use classifiers to depict their action or purpose.

18. Household Activities

19. More…

20. ASL UP CLOSE: Noun-Verb Pairs pg 273
Read pg 273 to understand ASL Noun-Verb Pairs
Which parameter is often the only difference between ASL nouns and verbs?
Nouns: typically have a double back & forth movement
Verbs: typically have one solid movement or wider back & forth movement than nouns

21. Try these
Chair vs sit eraser vs erase phone vs to call car vs drive scissors vs cut airplane vs to fly clothes vs dressed door vs open boat vs cruise pencil vs write window vs open more?

22. The Right Clothes

23. CLOTHING

24. …more clothes

25. Fingerspell: Jeans (x2) pajamas (PJ) suit Sun (with glasses)

26. Do you have? Partner Practice: pg. 280 T2
Ask your partner if they have the following:

27. Use the sign clothes to sign ‘wear’ and the sign use when signing about non-clothing items like glasses and shoes.
Accent Steps

28. Before we practice clothing… pg. 280 DVD
Describing Clothing:
Use topic-comment structure when describing clothing
Topic (what is being described) comes first
Comments (additional information) follows

29. Topic: Topic:
Jacket Shirt
Comment: Comment:
Black Blue

30. Add… descriptive detail

31. Expressive Presentation: Practice and present /6
You are going out of town for the weekend and it’s time to pack.
What clothes will you bring?
You need to dress appropriately for each situation:
going to the beach
going camping
going to a fancy restaurant
etc.
Describe in detail what you will pack in a min of 6 complete ASL sentences

32. Deaf Culture Note: Turn Taking Strategies Read pg 281 Take notes:
What Turn Taking Strategies?
Why would you need these strategies?
How are ASL strategies similar or different to spoken languages?

33. Did you know? Closed Captioning:
It takes more than just selecting the ‘captions’ button on your tv for captions to appear. Each word and sound is keyed into a program that is then attached to the original material. If the captioning has not been captioned already, then closed captioning will not work.

34. Classifiers
How does ASL use classifiers as preposition instead of separate signs for in, on, under, over, behind, next to, or in front of?

35. CL: C Cylindrical, hand-held objects
DCL (descriptive classifiers):
Descriptive classifiers are used to describe a shape, a size, a texture, or a pattern.
CL: C Cylindrical, hand-held objects
The CL: C classifier is used with cylindrical objects that fit into the handshape, as shown here

36. Using Classifiers together to convey meaning…
Classifier: CL: C and CL: B
“Put the glass on the table.”

37. Group Picture Expressive Presentation
Bring a picture of either your family or a group of friends
You must explain to the class who each member in the picture is
This might include:
Name
Age
Relationship to you
Where they live
You must explain where the picture was taken and what you were doing
In detail, describe the clothing each person is wearing and why they might have chosen to wear it (shorts and t-shirt/at the beach)
Yes, you may include your family pets
See rubric/to be presented in Rotating Chairs /12

38. Journal Activity Respond on a separate piece of paper and hand in
Why do you think many people tend to use Pidgin Sign English (PSE) instead of ASL?
Some suggest those who use PSE expect Deaf people to “do all the work” to understand what is signed.
What attitudes and assumptions does this imply about Deaf people, hearing people and ASL?
Can these attitudes and assumptions be changed? How?