Getting to Know You& States

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A lot of

To be beautiful / pretty

To do, activity, action

Fun

During

Vacation

You and me

Family

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To be born in

To be from

To grow up

Here

To live in

OH-I-SEE

Oh-I-See is an ASL expression that conveys comprehension, sympathy, and concern, similar to sounds like “huh”, “hmmm”, “oh”, “aha”, and “I see.” It is often used in conversation.

Beach

Ocean

To rollerblade

To ski

To visit

To be close to, near

To be far

That way, over there

REMEMBER: Use EYE GAZE when you are signing WHERE something is!

If something is FAR AWAY OPEN YOUR EYES WIDER to show distance is greater!

Deaf people wave their hands in the air to applauded someone rather than clapping.

Name Signs are highly valued in Deaf Culture. Having one shows you are accepted by the Deaf community because you made an effort to learn

Deaf culture and ASL.

Read more about Name Signs on pg. 84

TOPIC+COMMENT The signer presents information and

then makes the information either a statement or question by adding a comment

SUBJECT+VERB+OBJECT This is used when WH signs are not

needed. However, WHY often acts as a bridge

or connector between two separate SVO phrases.

Raise your eyebrows to make the

Question-Maker face when using

WHY to connect two parts of a sentence.

Signs for mine, his , hers, theirs, and ours are called Possessives.

Possessive signs follow the same rules as Deixis.

My, mine

Your, yours

His, hers, its GLOSS = POSS-IX or POSS-his…POSS-hers

Ours

Yours (plural)

Theirs

COLORS P. 93

COLOR BLACK

BLUE BROWN

GRAY GREEN

ORANGE PINK

PURPLE RED

WHITE YELLOW

To emphasize the depth or brightness of

a color, swing the hand forming the

color away from you.

LOVE-IT

Use love-it when signing about a non-romantic “love” for things or people. LOVE-IT is often used instead of “like a lot” or similar phrases.

To act, show, performance

Actor

Light (weight)

Musician, singer

Car

Dark

Television

To watch

Love it

How do I sign “and” and “or”? Since the word or implies a choice, ASL uses

WHICH to show options.

The word “and” is used differently in ASL than English. Generally, ASL does not use a specific sign because “and” is implied by a slight pause, head nod and change of eye gaze.

@ Dot, period Email Internet Listen Music Page Web page

When you sign WEB -PAGE do not sign WWW + PAGE, just sign WWW.

Address

Number

Telephone

Street

Boulevard

Court

Drive

Road

Avenue

Street

Fingerspell the abbreviation!

Don’t confuse the signs TO-LIVE and

ADDRESS. They are easily mistaken because they look very similar. But the movement of each sign is different.

Numbers 1-5 always face you except when signing about addresses and telephone numbers (giving information).

When counting in ASL, twist your hand towards you for numbers 1-5.

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New

To be old

Pager

Video phone

TTY

Red Color Yours Brown Mine Green His Act,show White Internet

Gray Watch Black His Page Yellow Videophone Television Light @ (“at”)

Car Sing Purple Live Telephone Blue Actor Street Love-It Musician

Pink Email Address Listen Number Old Orange Web page Dark Drive-to

Read on page 101 about how Deaf people the phone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT8IjZUk7Gg

Remember to sign the variation preferred by your local community.

Birthday (1) is used most in our community.

March April May June July

January - JAN February - FEB August - AUG September – SEPT October - OCT November – NOV December - DEC

Spell out the whole month

Spell out the month’s abbreviation!

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To celebrate

Depends

Fall

How many

Month

Season

Spring

Summer

Winter

Year

Major Holidays p. 106

Christmas Easter Halloween Hanukkah Independence Day Kwanzaa

Memorial Day New Year’s Day Passover St. Patrick’s Day Thanksgiving Valentine’s Day

Inside

Outside

Weather 1

Weather 2

To be cloudy

To be cold

To be cool

To be hot

To rain

To snow

To be sunny

To be warm

Waves

To be windy

Act, show Actor Address America April At (symbol) Atlanta August Avenue Beach

Birthday Black Blue Born in Boston Boulevard Brown Canada Car, to drive Celebrate

Chicago Christmas City, town Close to, near Cloudy Cold Color Comment Cool Court Dark December Here His, hers, its

Denver Depends Dot, period Easter Email Fall Far February From Gray Green Grow up Halloween Hanukkah

Hot Houston How many Independence day Inside Internet January July June Kwanzaa Labor day Light Listen Live in

Los Angeles March Martin Luther King Jr. Day May Memorial day Mexico Month Music Musician My, mine New Orleans New year’s New York New

November Number Ocean October Old Orange Ours Outside Page Pager

Passover Philadelphia Pink Purple Rain Red Road Rollerblade Salt Lake City San Francisco

Season Seattle September Ski Snow Spring St. Patrick’s Day Street Summer Sunny

Telephone Television Thanksgiving That way Their, theirs Topic TTY United States Valentine’s Day Vacation

Veteran’s Day Videophone Visit Warm Washington, D.C. Watch Waves Weather Web page

White Windy Winter Year Yellow Your, yours Yours (plural) Alaska Hawaii

California Oregon Washington Arizona Mexico Spanish Colorado Montana Texas

New York West Virginia Colorado Montana Texas