1. Intensive First Year American Sign Language (ASL 134) class Summer 2016
Instructor: Kristi Winter, MA
University of Washington
Dept. of Linguistics
ASL Program

2. Agenda: Today: Tuesday, July 26th SN Units 5 & 6
Group Narrative “The Gum Story” (25 points)
Tuesday, July 26th
Units 4-5 Test
Test format: Fill in blanks, MC, T/F, Matching, and Short Answers
Unit 6 “The Gallaudet and Clerc Story”
Unit 6 “Childhood Stories”

3. Unit 5 “Talking about Activities”

4. Homework 5:7 Telling How Often (p. 260)
Who
Activity
Calendar (how often)
Philip
house inspection G
2. Holly
library to study F
3. Grace
paying bills A
4. Gayle
making coffee H
5. Doug
grocery shopping D
6. Henry
renting movies E
7. Hannah
washing clothes B
8. Gloria
filling up car with gas C

5. How Often During the Month
5:7, p. 488

6. How Often During the Week
M 170
5:7, p. 489

7. Tell How Often 1 Signer A: Ask about frequency of chore
Signer B: Tell how often
M 171
5:7, p. 493

8. Tell How Often 2 Signer A: Ask about frequency of chore
Signer B: Tell how often
M 172
5:7, p. 493

9. Exercise 5:5 – How Often? Student Workbook, page 394-395
Each person takes a turn asking a question to the group. Everyone records the answer given and the person asking volunteers his/her answer as well. Based on the answers, write the letter that corresponds to the correct frequency chart next to the activity.
For example, if your partner said he or she went to the video store once a month, you would put the letter A next to the picture.
Signer A: Ask how frequently group members do a chore/errand
Signer B: (everyone): Tell how often
Signer A: (record answer)

10. “The Gum Story”
A visually entertaining story based on a summer camp skit – pg. 319

11. Lesson 5:8 Talking about Activities with Others

12. Parts of the Day
12:00
a.m.
p.m.
M 173
5:8, p. 501
Eve

13. Activities with Others 1
M 174
5:8, p. 502, p. 509

14. Activities with Others 2
M 175
5:8, p. 506, p. 509

15. Plural Pronouns for Two or Three People

16. Activities with Others 1
M 174
5:8, p. 502, p. 509

17. Plural Pronouns for Four or More People

18. Activities with Others 2
M 175
5:8, p. 506, p. 509

19. Activity: Sequencing Information
following this sequence when you inform your partner what you did/will do on a certain day:
• when (day and part of day)
• who (use plural pronouns)
• did what (activities)

20. Activity: Sequencing Information
Signer A: Ask what B did/will do on a certain day
Signer B: (from schedule) Give information
following this sequence:
• when (day and part of day)
• who (use plural pronouns)
• did what (activities)
A: (record information)
M 176
5:8, p. 510

21. Lesson 5:9 Talking about What One Does for a Living

22. Lesson 5:9 Describing Jobs
Your Job
Tell class what you do, did or want to do for
a living.
Use signs previously learned, act out, or
describe to help the class understand your job.
M 178
5:9, p. 516

23. Sign Language Interpreters

24. Lesson 5:9 “Commonly Fingerspelled Words” (pages 273-275)
Tips for understanding the fingerspelled words:
watch the movement of the letters to help figure out the fingerspelled word
use context provided by the sentence to help understand what word is spelled
catch the first few letters and last letter and relying on context, make an educated guess for the word.

25. Lesson 5:9 “Commonly Fingerspelled Words” (pages 273-275)
Some fingerspelled words have been “borrowed” from English and used as “ASL signs”
COUCH
VEST
SIZE
PUPPY
QUILT
TEE

26. Lesson 5:9 “Commonly Fingerspelled Words” (pages 273-275)
X-RAY
PRIZE
JUNK
GIFT
BAG
BILLS TV
HAM
ICE
GAS
ZOO
FAX
VAN
BBQ
DESK
TWIN
HERB

27. Lesson 5:9 “Commonly Fingerspelled Words” (pages 273-275)
TRUCK
CONDO
JUICE
BURRITO
PLASTIC

28. Did You Realized? (p. 275)
That signing villages once existed in America? For more than 100 years in certain villages on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod, as many as 1 out 25 people were Deaf (compared to 1 in 6000 on the mainland) and all the inhabitants, Deaf or hearing, used Sign Language.

29. Homework for next class day:
Do homework 5:8-5:9 and review Units 4-5 for tomorrow’s test

30. Sources:
Smith, C., Lentz, E. & Mikos, K. (1988)Signing Naturally Student Workbook Level 1. DawnSignPress. San Diego, CA
Smith, C., Lentz, E., Mikos, K. (2008) Signing Naturally Units 1-6. Dawn Sign Press. San Diego, CA.
Zinza, Jason E. (2006) Master ASL! Sign Media, Inc. Burtonsville, MD.
Eastman, G. (1989) From Mime to Sign. T.J. Publishers, Inc. Silver Spring, MD.
Pictures from Microsoft Clip Arts