Lesson 45 American Sign Language (ASL)

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Objectives:

___ I have taken the Lesson 45 Practice Quiz
___ I have taken the general practice quiz for this lesson. See: PRACTICE QUIZZES

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:

BODY
CAREFUL
CARELESS
COUGH
DRUNK
EARS
HAND
HEAD
HEAD-COLD
HEAR
HEART
INFECTION
KISS
LEG
MEDICINE
MOUTH
NOSE
PILL-[TAKE-PILL]
PREGNANT
SKIN
STOMACH
YOUNG

Review Vocabulary

Expansion Vocabulary

None for this lesson.

Practice:

Practice sheet: 45.A
01. SUPPOSE YOUR BODY, CAN TRADE OTHER PERSON THEIR BODY, YOU CHOOSE WHO?
02. YOUR EARS, CAN MOVE-[small_back_and_forth_movement] YOU?
03. YOUR NOSE, YOU SATISFY YOU?
04. DURING SIGN-[fluently] ASL SHOULD USE MOUTH QM-wig?
05. YOUR HOUSE, YOU SIT, CAN HEAR TRAIN YOU?

Practice sheet: 45.B
06. YOUNG BROTHER, SISTER YOU HAVE?
07. BEFORE-[prior_to] OLD-16, YOU KISS SOMEONE?
08. YOUR FAMILY PROCEED-[get-along] MOST TIME?
09. YOU DRIVE CAREFUL YOU?
10. SUPPOSE BOY, GIRLFRIEND CARELESS, MAYBE HAPPEN WHAT?

Practice sheet: 45.C
11. YOUR MOM PREGNANT HOW-MANY TIME?
12. SUPPOSE YOU COUGH COUGH, CAN'T STOP, what-DO?
13. YOU DRUNK BEFORE?
14. HAPPEN YOU HEADACHE, MEDICINE YOU TAKE-PILL WHAT-KIND?
15. YOUR L-E-G YOU BREAK PAST YOU?

Practice sheet: 45.D
16. DRAW HEAD, CAN YOU? (Are you able to draw a head? / artwork)
17. HANDS BECOME COLD TEND YOU?
18. Every-YEAR, WINTER, HEAD-COLD YOU?
19. YOUR HEART HOW IMPROVE?
20. IF C-U-T NOT CLEAN-up, WILL INFECTION?

Additional Information:

Signing Notes:

CHOOSE: There are several versions of the sign CHOOSE. All of them are based on the idea of using your index finger and thumb to take hold of your "choice" and pull it up/and or toward yourself. You may see the sign "PICK-UP" (which is related to the sign CHOOSE) done with the middle finger and the thumb (a palm-down open-8 that changes into a palm-down-8-handshape).

MOVE: The sign for MOVE is highly adaptable. You can adjust the movement of the MOVE sign to show "how" something is moving. When signing "move your ears" you would do the sign near your ears and use a very small movement. Or you could ditch the MOVE sign altogether and use "bent" hands that bend and unbend slightly to show the movement of the ears (as a classifier or depictive verb).

CUT: There are many ways to sign the concept of "CUT." The right sign depends on what is being cut, what you are cutting it with, where you are cutting at, and in what manner you are cutting. If you are cutting with scissors, then use a "V" handshape. If you are cutting with a knife, then use an index finger. If you are cutting with a scalpel then use the thumbnail of an "A" handshape.

CLEAN-up: The sign for "CLEAN-up" does the "CLEAN" sign quickly twice. It represents brushing off a table or other surface. The CLEAN sign is also the same sign as NICE.

WINTER: The sign for WINTER can be done without initialization if you have enough context. If your sentence lacks context then use the "W" handshape.

HEAD-COLD: Is one sign not two. It looks (somewhat) as if you are wiping your nose (twice) with a tissue.

QM-wig: Is a way of writing wiggle your index finger between being a straight index finger and being an "X" handshape in order to represent a "question mark."

Deaf Culture and History: Deaf Smith
Deaf Places: National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)

As far as whether or not you should use your mouth see the "Mouth Morphemes" section of the Lifeprint Library.

Quizzes:

Self-study students, see: Lesson 45 Practice Quiz
Taking this as a class? Contact your local teacher or see your syllabus for the right quiz to take.

Notes:

This is the final lesson of Level 3 (Lessons 31 - 45). The source's own "Review:" list is preserved at the top of the Review Vocabulary section, including its combined SOMEONE-SOMETHING-SINGLE entry with the source's three separate links; a second list adds the other earlier-lesson signs used in this lesson's practice sentences. A stray quotation mark at the end of the source's CLEAN-up note (after "NICE") has been removed. HEADACHE (item 14) and BREAK (item 15) have no verified sign page in the corpus and are left unlinked. GIRLFRIEND, WHAT, BECOME, CHOOSE, SATISFY and SOMEONE are linked but untagged because those pages never appear in an earlier vocabulary section. This lesson has no Expansion Vocabulary; the section is retained for structural consistency. The source's empty trailing "Curriculum revision notes and lesson archive" block has been omitted.

ASL: Lesson 45