Unit 4: Family and Friends Personal Pronouns with Number Incorporation Rhetorical Questions Physical and Personal Qualities

What is your best friend’s name? Review What is your best friend’s name? Do you like to get together with friends? Are you married or single? Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? Who do you want to go out with? How long have you known your best friend?

Personal Pronouns What are pronouns? What are personal pronouns? How does one sign these in ASL? Predict how you can show “the three of us”, “the two of them”, etc. in ASL.

Personal Pronouns (with Number Incorporation) photos from A Basic Course in ASL Personal Pronouns (with Number Incorporation) We Us The (two-five) of us They The (two-five) of them You (plural) Y’all The (two-five) of you

Classroom Exercise T Those four The six of them Us five You and me You, me, & him Two of them You three She and I Us two You and her The five of you You two These five Those two

Pronoun Practice Those two are dating. The four of us are sick. Are you and she in a relationship? You three need to study. Those two and those two don’t get along. You and I need help. Five of us work on Saturday.

Practicing Non-Manual Signals: Use only facial expressions and non-manual signals for the meanings shown in bold. Sign each concept. To argue (a lot) To fall in love (repeatedly) To break up (pleased) To be together (a very long time) To flirt (too strongly) 6. To go out (often) 7. To be single (happily) 8. To be single (unhappily) 9. To argue (a big argument) 10. To get along with (not by choice)

Describing Qualities Guess the word! Fingerspell your answer.

CUTE

PRETTY, BEAUTIFUL

SMILE

UGLY

TO ANNOY, BOTHER

ARROGANT

FRIENDLY

FUNNY

LAUGH

MEAN

MISCHEVIOUS

SHY

SWEET

BORING

LAZY

MOTIVATED

NEGATIVE

OUTGOING

POSITIVE

SMART

STUPID

WORK HARD

Physical Qualities p. 156

Personal Qualities p. 157

Personal Qualities p. 157

More Qualities

Practice: Presentational Use shoulder shifting to show the opposites in the pictures. Example:

Interpersonal Dialogue

Practice: Interpersonal Sentences A: They are lazy. B: No, they work hard. A: She is not shy. B: No, she’s outgoing. A: He is friendly. B: Yes, but arrogant. A: She’s interesting and smart. B: Yes, works hard. A: My mom is nice. B: Yes, I love her. A: His girlfriend is pretty. B: Yes, she is not ugly.

Interpretive Practice: “Kelly’s Friends” How old was she when Kelly met her best friends? Are the three friends Deaf? What do they do everyday? Use your context clues to figure out what it means to “Dive into the Deaf world”? How has Leon dived into the Deaf world?

Practice: Vocabulary

A: Is he smart or stupid. B: He is smart A: Is he smart or stupid? B: He is smart. A: Your brother annoys me B: Yes, he bothers people. A: Is your cousin a troublemaker? B: No, he’s sweet. A: My best friend likes to work hard. B: No, he’s lazy.

Dive-in and Deaf-world – page 159

Exercise 8: #1 (p. 160) What qualities would the ideal friend have and not have? Using contrastive structure and the Listing and Ordering Technique, describe in detail the qualities of these 2 individuals. You should have a minimum of 8 sentences. A few students will be chosen randomly to sign these for a classwork grade.