1. Unit 4: Family and Friends
Personal Pronouns with Number Incorporation
Rhetorical Questions
Physical and Personal Qualities

2. What is your best friend’s name?
Review
What is your best friend’s name?
Do you like
to get together
with friends?
Are you
married or
single?
Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
Who do you want to go out with?
How long have you known your best friend?

3. Personal Pronouns What are pronouns? What are personal pronouns?
How does one sign these in ASL?
Predict how you can show “the three of us”, “the two of them”, etc. in ASL.

4. Personal Pronouns (with Number Incorporation)
photos from A Basic Course in ASL
Personal Pronouns (with Number Incorporation) We Us
The (two-five) of us
They
The (two-five) of them
You (plural)
Y’all
The (two-five) of you

5. Classroom Exercise T Those four The six of them Us five You and me
You, me, & him
Two of them
You three
She and I
Us two
You and her
The five of you
You two
These five
Those two

6. Pronoun Practice Those two are dating. The four of us are sick.
Are you and she in a relationship?
You three need to study.
Those two and those two don’t get along.
You and I need help.
Five of us work on Saturday.

7. Practicing Non-Manual Signals: Use only facial expressions and non-manual signals for the meanings shown in bold. Sign each concept.
To argue (a lot)
To fall in love (repeatedly)
To break up (pleased)
To be together (a very long time)
To flirt (too strongly)
6. To go out (often) 7. To be single (happily) 8. To be single (unhappily) 9. To argue (a big argument) 10. To get along with (not by choice)

8. Describing Qualities
Guess the word!
Fingerspell your answer.

9. CUTE

10. PRETTY, BEAUTIFUL

11. SMILE

12. UGLY

13. TO ANNOY, BOTHER

14. ARROGANT

15. FRIENDLY

16. FUNNY

17. LAUGH

18. MEAN

19. MISCHEVIOUS

20. SHY

21. SWEET

22. BORING

23. LAZY

24. MOTIVATED

25. NEGATIVE

26. OUTGOING

27. POSITIVE

28. SMART

29. STUPID

30. WORK HARD

31. Physical Qualities p. 156

32. Personal Qualities p. 157

33. Personal Qualities p. 157

34. More Qualities

35. Practice: Presentational
Use shoulder shifting to show the opposites in the pictures. Example:

37. Interpersonal Dialogue

38. Practice: Interpersonal Sentences
A: They are lazy. B: No, they work hard. A: She is not shy. B: No, she’s outgoing. A: He is friendly. B: Yes, but arrogant. A: She’s interesting and smart. B: Yes, works hard. A: My mom is nice. B: Yes, I love her. A: His girlfriend is pretty. B: Yes, she is not ugly.

39. Interpretive Practice: “Kelly’s Friends”
How old was she when Kelly met her best friends?
Are the three friends Deaf?
What do they do everyday?
Use your context clues to figure out what it means to “Dive into the Deaf world”?
How has Leon dived into the Deaf world?

40. Practice: Vocabulary

41. A: Is he smart or stupid. B: He is smart
A: Is he smart or stupid? B: He is smart. A: Your brother annoys me B: Yes, he bothers people. A: Is your cousin a troublemaker? B: No, he’s sweet. A: My best friend likes to work hard. B: No, he’s lazy.

42. Dive-in and Deaf-world – page 159

43. Exercise 8: #1 (p. 160)
What qualities would the ideal friend have and not have? Using contrastive structure and the Listing and Ordering Technique, describe in detail the qualities of these 2 individuals. You should have a minimum of 8 sentences.
A few students will be chosen randomly to sign these for a classwork grade.