Lesson 35 American Sign Language (ASL)

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Objectives:

___ I have taken the Lesson 35 Practice Quiz
___ I have taken the general practice quiz for this lesson. See: PRACTICE QUIZZES
___ I am familiar with the role of context in ASL and how it may influence sign choices

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:

BALL
BASEBALL
BASKETBALL
BOWLING
CHASE
CLIMB
DOLL
FOOTBALL
GAME-[challenge]
HOCKEY
KITE
MOTORCYCLE
ROLLER-BLADE
RUN
SNOWBOARD
SOCCER
SOFTBALL
SWING
VIDEO

Review Vocabulary

Expansion Vocabulary

Practice:

Practice sheet: 35.A
01. BALL, YOU CAN THROW, HOW FAR?
02. BASEBALL, YOU LIKE WATCH?
03. BASKETBALL, YOU LIKE PLAY?
04. BOWLING, YOU SKILL?
05. DOG CHASE CAT what-FOR?

Practice sheet: 35.B
06. WALL, YOU LIKE CLIMB?
07. YOU HAVE DOLL, HAIR BROWN?
08. FOOTBALL, YOUR FAVORITE TEAM?
09. GAME YOU LIKE PLAY, what-NAME?
10. YOU WANT PLAY HOCKEY YOU?

Practice sheet: 35.C
11. YOU LIKE RUN YOU?
12. MOTORCYCLE, YOU HAVE?
13. YOU SNOWBOARD BEFORE YOU?
14. SOCCER TEAM, HOW-MANY PLAYER?
15. YOU LIKE PLAY SOFTBALL?

Practice sheet: 35.D
16. CHILD, SWING, SHOULD how-OLD?
17. MOVIE, YOU RECENTLY WATCH WHAT?
18. KITE, BEST MONTH WHICH?
19. YOU LIKE ROLLER-BLADE?
20. HEARING-AID, YOU SOMETIMES WISH your-SELF HAVE?

Additional Information:

NOTES:

Compare and contrast these signs:

RUN-[running] vs RACE-[complete-competition-sports]
TRADE-[instead-of/exchange] vs SWAP-[trade-exchange] vs CHANGE
SKILL-[talent] vs MAJOR-[main-field-line-of-work] vs SPECIALTY vs EXPENSIVE
OWE-[due-bill] vs PAY
TRADE vs LEND
NEXT-WEEK vs this-WEEK vs NOW-WEEK vs WEEKLY
DOLL vs STRICT
ALRIGHT vs SOME-[PART]
DATE vs MEET
ROCK/STONE vs WORK
WHAT-KIND vs WHAT-[huh/hmmm]
SATISFIED-[content/fulfilled] vs UPSET

NOTES:
See: "Context" and "High Context and Low Context Signing"

In high context situations signers may choose to use non-initialized versions of signs. For example a signer may choose to use the general sign sometimes labeled as "CATEGORY" to refer to a "team." During low context situations however that same signer may choose to do the sign TEAM using "T" handshapes.

TEAM: The initialized sign "TEAM" is similar to the sign "CLASS" except TEAM uses a "T" handshape instead of a "C" handshape.

What is a "WH"-clause?
A "WH-question" in ASL happens when we lower (or "furrow") our eyebrows while doing a sign such as WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, WHICH or even HOW or HOW-MANY. Often we put "WH-questions" at the end of ASL sentences.

In the case of "How many players are there on a soccer team?" we could sign: SOCCER TEAM, NUMBER PLAYER HOW-MANY? or SOCCER TEAM PLAYER ALTOGETHER HOW-MANY? A shorter method would be to sign: SOCCER TEAM, HOW-MANY PLAYER? In that last version, "how many players" becomes a "WH"-clause. By that I mean you lower your eyebrows starting at "HOW-MANY" and hold the eyebrows through the sign "PLAYER" as you end your sentence.

NAD LAC: The National Association of the Deaf Law and Advocacy Center educates, advocates, and litigates on behalf of and to empower Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people. The LAC advocates on legislative and public policy issues of concern to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Community, particularly at the national level and often in collaboration with other national organizations." (Source: www.nad.org)

Your-SELF: The sign "your-SELF" often functions to mean "your own." Thus if you were asking someone if they had "their own" hearing aid you could use "your-SELF" to do so. You may wonder why someone would use a "your own" statement or question instead of simply signing "you?" The assumption of a "your own" sentence is that "someone" in the conversation already has something and the question or comment is seeking to find out if someone else would also like to have that thing.

Compare:
"Do you wish you had a hearing aid?" (Is a simple question that implies nothing about whether or not I own a hearing aid.)
"Do you wish you had your own hearing aid?" (Likely indicates that I have a hearing aid and you might be wishing you had one too.)

Quizzes:

Self-study students, see: Lesson 35 Practice Quiz
Taking this as a class? Contact your local teacher or see your syllabus for the right quiz to take.

Notes:

CLIMB appears in the source vocabulary list without a link; it has been linked here to the CLIMB page that the source's own review list uses. what-FOR, your-TURN and NOW-WEEK are unlinked in the source and have been kept unlinked.

The source objectives list ends with a stray empty "___" checklist marker, which has been dropped.

ASL: Lesson 35