Master ASL 8 Describing People

Master ASL 8 Describing People

Objectives To describe people’s physical appearances To describe personality traits and characteristics To improve ASL narrative skills To learn about Deaf-Blind communication To discuss health issues To describe the natural world and environment

Picture it Find a partner Pick up your handouts Put your name on your paper upper left corner You know what to do When finished make corrections in red and staple papers together and submit

Vocabulary—NO VOICE Bald Chubby Face Freckles Gut, Belly Hair Quiet Good Shape Look Like Lose Weight Pregnant Thin Well Built Humble

Vocabulary—NO VOICE ARAB ASIAN BLACK ETHNICITY HALF HISPANIC INDIAN MIX NATIVE AMERICAN CAUCASION

Sign the sentences with your partner: My uncle is Arab. My friend is Asian. Denzel Washington is black. What is your ethnicity? I am ½ Caucasian and ½ Hispanic. Are you from India? My family is mixed. My teacher is Native American.

Vocabulary—NO VOICE BANGS BEARD BRAIDS CURLY HAIR GOATEE LONG HAIR MUSTACHE PONY TAIL SHORT HAIR SHORT HAIR SHORT HAIR SIDEBURNS

Practice My cousin has long curly hair and bangs. My uncle has a crew cut, sideburns and a goatee. Santa has short hair and a white beard. My grandmother always wears a braid. My daughter has long hair. She likes to wear it in a pony tail. My friend has short hair and a mustache.

Grammar Structures: What can you do? Create a sentence with the vocabulary using the following grammar structures: Topic/Comment Negation Yes/No Question WH Question Rhq Tense

DESCRIPTION order NOTES! Gender Ethnicity Height Body type Face, details Describe the people in the room

Vocabulary—NO VOICE Personal Characteristics AFRAID BROKEN-HEARTED EMBARRASSED EMOTIONAL FRUSTRATED MOTORMOUTH NERVOUS NOSY PERSONALITY POLITE RUDE STRONG WEAK WORRY

Sign the Sentences with your partner: Bob is afraid of strong men, not weak men. Sue is polite and Bob is rude. My sister is nosy and a motor mouth. Nervous people embarrass me. Are you emotional because you are brokenhearted? She has a nervous personality. People who worry frustrate me.

So many faces Fill out the handout with characteristics vocabulary and then sign with your partner. Practice, practice, practice

Time to Sign in front of the class Personal Ad Create a personal ad in which you look for your perfect “other”. You must include the following vocabulary: A visual A full description in correct order using at least 10 descriptive signs from this chapter A personality description using a minimum of 4 positives and 3 negatives from this chapter

Personal Ad SAMPLE I SEARCH-FOR MAN, BLACK, TALL, AVERAGE, HAIR CL:G buzz cut, neg FACE EYES DARK BROWN, GLASSES OK. BEARD, MUSTACHE NONE. neg NOT-LIKE. PREFER IX-index , IX-middle , IX-ring neg , IX-pinky . NOT-LIKE shift shift cond . IF THIS YOU PLEASE CALL-ME 480-663-8219.

Master Conversation Practice all parts. You do not have to memorize this, but you will not know which part you will sign till you come up to sign it!

Vocabulary—NO VOICE ALRIGHT ALLERGIES BETTER CHICKEN POX COLD COUGH DOCTOR FEEL FEVER HURT NOSEBLEED HEAL HEADACHE MEDICINE NAUSEOUS SNEEZE SORE THROAT SPRAIN REMOVE TONSILS VOMIT

POW! Notes Use POW! when something suddenly happens or when you get sick.

How do you feel? Practice signing the sentences below with your partner. Don’t forget to use POW! where necessary. When I sprained my ankle the pain made me want to vomit. All day I’ve been sneezing because of my allergies. Now I have a bloody nose. Last week I had a cold. I was nauseous. I had a fever, a cough, a sore throat and a runny nose. I went to the doctor and he gave me medicine. Now I’m better. I have never had the chicken pox. Have you? All morning I was fine, then this afternoon I got a head ache.

Vocabulary—NO VOICE DESERT FLOWER HILL ISLAND LAKE MOON PLANT RIVER STAR SUN TREE MOUNTAIN

Substitution Drills: Sign the following two sentences substituting the hi-lighted word each time you re-sign the sentence. These are Topic/Comment sentences. Remember to have your eyebrows up on the topic and nod on the comment. t DESERT THERE I LIVE. HILL ISLAND MOUNTIAN t FLOWER BEAUTIFUL, I LIKE. LAKE MOON PLANT RIVER STAR SUN TREE

Time to Sign Use the template to create a monologue about a place you visited and some of the events that took place there. Be prepared to sign for me on . Make sure all blanks are filled in with vocabulary from this unit only! Handout

DEAF TEND THEIRS Notes This term commonly refers to specific attitudes, beliefs, habits or other characteristics found within Deaf culture as a whole. In other words, something Deaf people tend to do.

DEAF TEND THEIRS (Notes continued) It takes Deaf people a long time to say goodbye. Handshape stories are something Deaf people do. Deaf people tend to have life long friendships.

Medical/Cultural Models—Notes Pathological model—the medical and educational communities and the focus on what Deaf people can’t do. Cultural model—the focus on group cohesiveness and what they can do.

Negative Connotations of Handicapped— Notes Incapable Disabled Inferior Weak Disadvantaged Deficient impaired Helpless Unable Unfit unqualified Is it any wonder that the Deaf don’t want to be labeled as handicapped?

Deaf Doctors—Notes There are approximately 50 Deaf doctors in the United States.

Deaf/Blindness—Notes Most common disability among Deaf. Deaf have same number of additional disabilities as hearing people do. Tactile sign language is used by individuals who are Deaf and blind. The Deaf person place their hand out and a signer signs into their hand. They “feel” the letters.

Glossing Complete the chapter glossing packet and turn in by the end of class.

Test Time! Good Luck