1. ASL Class 6/15/15

2. Unit 7.1 – Identifying Present People
What is ASL Classifier?
Classifiers are designated handshapes and/or rule-grounded body pantomime used to represent nouns and verbs. The purpose of the classifier is to provide additional information about nouns and verbs such as: location, kind of action, size, shape and manner.  ASL has many classifier handshapes to represent specific categories or class of objects.

3. Unit 7.1 – Identifying Present People
Understand Grammar
Body Classifiers (BCLs)
Body Part Classifiers (BPCLs)
Body Part SASSes (BPSASSes)
Descriptive Classifiers (DCL”clothing pattern”)
Facial Expressions (“oo”, “mm”, “cha”, “ee”, “puffed” and “open mouth”)

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Vocabulary
Body positions
Height
Body type
BPCL”leg positions”
TALL
SKINNY
SHORT-person
SLENDER
BROAD-SHOULDERS
PLUMP

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Vocabulary
Appearance: head and face
Appearance: hair
Describing patterns
HEAD-WRAP
(color)+HAIR
DCL”patterns”
HAT
BALD-TOP
fs-SUN+EYEGLASSES
BPSASS”hair length, texture or style”
MUSTACHE
BEARD

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Vocabulary
Ask to confirm
Confirm q
________
THAT-ONE
!THAT-ONE!

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To point out a person in the room, you need to describe something that helps the listener locate the person quickly.
Identify person by describing one or two of these:
body position
appearance
clothing

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Body Position: Arms 1. 2. 3.
1. BCL”hands folded”
2. BCL”hands and arms stacked”
3. BCL”head resting on one hand”
4. BCL”head resting on both hands”
5. BCL”hands behind head”
6. BCL”crossed arms” 4. 5. 6.

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Body Position: Legs 1.
1. BPCL”sitting with legs crossed” 4. 2.
2. BPCL”sitting with legs outstretched”

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Body Position: Legs 3.
3. BPCL”lotus sitting position” 4. 4.
4. BPCL”sitting with one foot tucked under the other leg”

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Body Position: Legs 5.
5. BPCL”sitting with foot over knee” 6.
6. BPCL”sitting with legs wide apart”

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Appearance: Height oo
____________
SHORT-person
cha
_____
TALL

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Appearance: Body Type 1. oo
______
SKINNY 2. oo
_______
SLENDER

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Appearance: Body Type 3.
cha
_______________
BROAD-SHOULDERS 4.
puffed
______
PLUMP

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Appearance: Head and Face 1. 2. 3.
fs-SUN+EYEGLASSES
MUSTACHE
BEARD 4. 5.
HAT
HEAD-WRAP

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Appearance: Hair 1. 2. 3.
BALD-TOP
BPSASS:G”very short”
(2h)BPSASS:B”shoulder length”

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Appearance: Hair 4. 5. 6.
(2h)BPSASS:B”long hair”
(2h)BPSASS”curly”
BPSASS”frizzy”

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Appearance: Hair 7. 8. 9.
BPSASS”bun”
(2h)BPSASS”pony tail”
BPSASS:R”large braid”

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Appearance: Hair
10.
11.
12.
(2h)BPSASS R:”dreads”
!RED! HAIR
GRAY HAIR

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Clothing: Patterns 1. oo
____________________________________
SHIRT, BLUE, WHITE DCL:4”vertical stripes” 2. oo
________________________________________
SHIRT, BLACK, WHITE DCL:4”horizontal stripes”

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Clothing: Patterns 3. mm
___________________________
SHIRT, RED, GRAY DCL:4”plaid” 4. mm
___________________________
SHIRT, BLACK (2h)altDCL:F”dots”

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Clothing: Patterns 5.
cha
_______________________________
SHIRT, FLOWER (2h)altDCL:C”flowers” 6. mm
_______________________________
SHIRT, BLACK (2h)altDCL:claw”swirly”

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Clothing: Patterns 7.
SHIRT, PICTURE CAT (2h)DCL:L”picture on chest” 8.
SHIRT, NAME (2h)DCL:bent L”across chest” [(wh) DCL:bent L/IX-loc”across chest”] fs-CALIFORNIA

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The Men
A: Identify person by using one or two of the following:
body position
appearance
clothing
B: (Wave right or left to confirm the person)
A: Confirm

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The Women
A: Identify person by using one or two of the following:
body position
appearance
clothing
B: (Wave right or left to confirm the person)
A: Confirm

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Women Sitting
A: Identify person by using one or two of the following:
body position
appearance
clothing
B: Add another description to confirm
A: Confirm

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raise brows
nod
Ask to confirm
Confirm

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Women Sitting
A: Identify person by using one or two of the following:
body position
appearance
clothing
B: Add another description to confirm
A: Confirm

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Classwork
Please do the student workbook, pages 4 to 14