Personal Pronouns and Basic Sentence Structure with Closing Signal ABC.1 Personal Pronouns and Basic Sentence Structure with Closing Signal

Objectives: Students will be able to use personal pronouns correctly in conversational signing. Students will master the vocabulary in this lesson in both expressive and receptive contexts.

Vocabulary… Time to learn some new signs and review some old ones. Open your vocabulary packet to lesson 18. ____________________________________________________ For your benefit: 1. You should be studying this vocabulary daily. 2. There is a video in Google Drive for you to practice with AND a voice-over DRILL. Use them.

AND

ANGRY, FURIOUS

BEAUTIFUL

BIG, LARGE

COOL, BREEZE

DEAF (2)

DUMB, STUPID

HAPPY

HARD-OF-HEARING

HE, SHE, IT

HEARING, SAY, SPEECH

HEAVY

HELLO, HI

I, ME

INTERESTING, INTEREST

LIGHT (Weight)

Mad, angry

Pretty, beautiful

sad

Short (height), small

Sleepy, drowsy

Small, little

Smart, clever, bright

Strong, strength, powerful

Stupid, ignorant, dumb

Surprised, amazed

Tall (2)

They, them

Tired, exhausted

ugly

warm

We, us

Weak, weakness

you

You (plural)

Personal Pronouns ASL Grammar

Personal Pronouns: The handshape for personal pronouns is the pointing index finger. It is often glossed as IX. Personal Pronouns are: I/ME YOU HE/SHE/IT and HIM/HER WE, US YOU-PL THEY, THEM If the person or object is visible or nearby, the signer points in the direction of that person or object. If the person or object is not present, the signer can point to a location on either side for reference.

There are three ways to sign a simple sentence with a personal pronoun: I HAPPY I. I HAPPY. HAPPY I.

Gloss the following Prompts 3 ways! Get out a piece of paper and gloss the prompts all three ways. Follow the example on the board. Remember that it is common to repeat the subject pronoun at the end of a sentence to show that you are done signing and it is the other person’s turn to sign. Once completed you will be signing the sentences with other classmates.

This is how you should format your paper. Remember to double space. YOU TALL YOU. YOU TALL. TALL YOU. YOU, TALL WE, BEAUTIFUL I, SHORT IT, HEAVY IT, LIGHT THEY, SURPRISED I, FURIOUS YOU, HAPPY IT, BIG THEY, DEAF WE, DUMB I, SAD YOU, HEARING HE, INTERSTING IT, SMALL I, MAD YOU, PRETTY SHE HARD-OF- HEARING SHE, SLEEPY IT, UGLY

Let’s look at your worksheets… It is common in simple sentences to repeat the subject pronoun at the end of the sentence. This is often referred to as a closing signal and is used to show that the signer is done singing. Personal pronouns use the index finger handshape. Step 1. Practice sentences 1-10 on your own and underline any signs you do not know. Step 2. What signs do we need to review? Step 3. Now lets sign the sentences together. Step 4. Now lets sign them with partners. Move around the room. Sign a sentence to a person… the person responds with the number that corresponds to that sentence.

Let’s look at your worksheets… Now lets look at practice sentence set 2. Step 1. Practice sentences 1-10 on your own and underline any signs you do not know. Step 2. What signs do we need to review? Step 3. Now lets sign the sentences together. Step 4. Now lets sign them with partners. Move around the room. Sign a sentence to a person… the person responds with the number that corresponds to that sentence.

On Your Own… There are 37 signs in this chapter. Create 10 sentences on your own that incorporate at least 20 of the signs from this chapter and use grammar structures from this chapter. Gloss the sentence first underlining the vocabulary used from this chapter, on the next line write out the grammar structure used. Add all glossing marks and double space. For example: I SAD I SHORT. (The handshape for personal pronouns is the pointing index finger.) You will be signing and translating these ten sentences in class. Be sure to use only vocabulary we know—do not use www.aslpro.com to look up new signs. Rely on your master vocabulary list only! Make sure you know how to sign each sentence on the due date.

Grammar Drop! Choose two (2) sentence from each practice set… Record yourself signing these four sentences, upload to Google Drive “Grammar Drop” folder. Title your video with your FIRST AND LAST NAME. Do it like this: Ben Baker While signing the sentences you SHOULD TALK and EXPLAIN what you are doing and WHY.

High Five! Time to review vocabulary. Find a partner and make sure you each have a different colored pencil or hi-lighter. Come up and get your paper… one per group.

Master Monologue Transcription Watch the ABC 1 “Mater Monologue” in Google Drive. Transcribe the passage. Be sure to double space. Remember you must have an English word for every sign. Turn in to the class box.