Lesson 31 American Sign Language (ASL)

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Objectives:

___ I have taken the Lesson 31 Practice Quiz
___ I have taken the general practice quiz for this lesson. See: PRACTICE QUIZZES
___ I am able to respond to questions about future plans and schedules.
___ I am able to provide expanded answers to requests or inquiries about my willingness or consent to do something or allow something to happen.
___ I am able to name a pioneering educator and advocate in Deaf culture.
___ I am aware that signs in ASL can often have different interpretations and am able to provide examples.
___ I am aware that ASL has more than one "word order" (or sign order).

Playlist of instructional videos: ASL 3: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6akqFwEeSpjKM_JKDGGrXdvQm21Ahzkl

List of signs and sentences:
Level 03 (Lessons 31 - 45) Practice Cards (in MS Word .doc format)
Level 03 Sentence List
Level 03 You Tube Playlist

Vocabulary:

ALRIGHT
ANSWER-[order, report, respond]
DIFFERENT-(but)
ENTHUSIASTIC
EXCITED
GONE-[absent, DEPLETE, run-out-of]
LESSON-[course]
LOUSY
NONE
NOTHING
NOTHING-TO-IT
OKAY
OWE-[bill, due, debt]
PENCIL
STINK
STUCK
TEST

Other vocabulary:
WRITE = mime writing
PEN = spell it or sign "WRITE"
SECRETARY (Make sure to see the note on the "PENCIL" page)

Review Vocabulary

Expansion Vocabulary

PEN-[L31] | RUN-OUT-OF-[L31] | SECRETARY-[L15] | WRITE-[L13]

Practice:

Practice sheet: 31.A
01. YOU LIKE EAT DIFFERENT DIFFERENT RESTAURANT YOU?
02. YOU ALRIGHT YOU?
03. SUPPOSE YOU RESTAURANT, YOU ORDER BIRD, MEAT, FISH, WHICH?
04. YOU ENTHUSIASTIC, ABOUT WHAT?
05. YOU EXCITED EASY YOU?

Practice sheet: 31.B
06. TODAY CLASS, GONE WHO?
07. THIS CLASS, LESSON HOW-MANY?
08. MOVIE YOU THINK LOUSY, what-NAME?
09. NEXT-WEEK HAVE PLAN YOU?
10. TEST, YOU THINK NOTHING-TO-IT?

Practice sheet: 31.C
11. OWE YOUR DAD MONEY YOU?
12. P-E-N DON'T-MIND you-LEND-me?
13. SUPPOSE DOG, YOU WATER "hose-down" YOU THINK IT STINK FUTURE-[will]?
14. DURING TEST YOU SOMETIME STUCK?
15. YESTERDAY MAIL YOU GET NONE?

Practice sheet: 31.D
16. YOU THINK TOMORROW SNOW?
17. CHILDREN DRINK COFFEE, YOU THINK OKAY?
18. RAIN COAT HAVE YOU?
19. YOUR MOM HELP-you LEARN READ?
20. YEAR-AGO YOU GO FAMILY gather-to-MEETING-[single-movement="reunion"]?

Additional Information:

Notes:

If someone asks you, "Do you have plans next week?" -- some ways to respond include:
NONE
BUSY
WHAT'S-UP?
ASK-me WHY? (You are asking me why? / Why do you ask?)
ASK-me FOR-FOR? (You are asking me why? Why do you ask?)

If someone asks you "Do-you-mind ______?" instead of just answering "yes or no" it is more clear if you answer by using a signing something such as:
FINE
OK
GO-AHEAD
I-DON'T-MIND
I-DON'T-CARE
ALRIGHT
CAN'T
SORRY

Culture & History topic: Who was Edward Miner Gallaudet?
Brief answer: Edward was the son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Sophia Fowler Gallaudet. Edward was the first president of (what is now known as) Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.. He was president of Gallaudet University from 1864 to 1910.
For more information see: Gallaudet, Edward Miner

The sign labeled (or glossed) as "QUOTES" can be interpreted different ways depending on your sentence. For example the sentence "What are you enthusiastic about?" uses the "QUOTE" sign to mean "topic" and might be typed as "TOPIC YOU ENTHUSIASTIC WHAT?"

Notes and optional reading:

Signs in ASL can often have different English interpretations. ASL also has different sign orders.

The signs DIFFERENT [shift] DIFFERENT can mean: different, various, a variety of, multiple options, a number of disparate items, etc.

The phrase, "RESTAURANT, YOU LIKE EAT DIFFERENT [shift] DIFFERENT YOU?" -- has various interpretations.

In general it means: "Do you like to eat at different restaurants?" or "Do you like eating at different restaurants?"

But it could also be interpreted as meaning "When you go to a restaurant do you like to eat different things?"

To make the phrase more clear you can sign "YOU LIKE EAT DIFFERENT DIFFERENT RESTAURANT YOU?"

Or even "YOU LIKE GO DIFFERENT DIFFERENT RESTAURANT YOU?" (The assumption being that when you get there you go ahead and eat -- as opposed to simply sitting there staring longingly at the menu.)

The phrase "RESTAURANT YOU LIKE EAT DIFFERENT DIFFERENT YOU" provides an example of when OSV (object / subject / verb) sentence construction doesn't work as well as SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) sentence construction.

For discussion sake consider the idea that to remove ambiguity the sign RESTAURANT could be duplicated. For example, "RESTAURANT, YOU LIKE EAT DIFFERENT DIFFERENT RESTAURANT YOU?" But if we are going to place RESTAURANT near the end of the sentence we can save time and effort by just dropping the first usage of "RESTAURANT" and keeping the second -- or in other words -- using "subject verb object" sign order.

RUN-OUT-OF, deplete, depleted, used up, ran out of, out of

If we do the RUN-OUT-OF sign with the ndh palm down (instead of up) it still means "run out of" but it also starts leaning toward the concept of "run out of time." Doing the RUN-OUT-OF sign with the ndh palm up is a slightly more general version of the sign.

Quizzes:

Self-study students, see: Lesson 31 Practice Quiz
Taking this as a class? Contact your local teacher or see your syllabus for the right quiz to take.

Notes:

This lesson begins Level 3 (Lessons 31-45). From this lesson on, the practice sentences link to their video demonstrations on YouTube rather than to individual sentence pages; those links have been kept pointing at the same videos as the source page.

The sign TEST also appears in the Lesson 13 vocabulary; it is included here again as part of this lesson's set.

ASL: Lesson 31