Getting to Know You & States

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1 Getting to Know You & States

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3 A lot of During To be beautiful / pretty To do, activity, action Fun Vacation You and me Family

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5 To be born in To be from To grow up Here To live in

6 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.

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8 Beach Ocean To rollerblade To ski To visit

9 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!

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

11 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

12 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.

13 Raise your eyebrows to make the Question-Maker face when using WHY to connect two parts of a sentence.

14 Signs for mine, his, hers, theirs, and ours are called Possessives. Possessive signs follow the same rules as Deixis.

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16 My, mine Yours (plural) Your, yours Theirs His, hers, its GLOSS = POSS-IX or POSS-his POSS-hers Ours

17 COLORS P. 93

18 COLOR BLACK ORANGE PINK BLUE BROWN PURPLE RED GRAY GREEN WHITE YELLOW

19 To emphasize the depth or brightness of a color, swing the hand forming the color away from you.

20 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.

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22 To act, show, performance Actor Light (weight) Musician, singer Car Dark Television To watch Love it

23 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.

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25 @ Dot, period Internet Listen Music Page Web page When you sign WEB - PAGE do not sign WWW + PAGE, just sign WWW.

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27 Address Number Telephone Street Boulevard Court Drive Road Avenue Street Fingerspell the abbreviation!

28 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.

29 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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31 New To be old Pager Video phone TTY

32 Red Color Yours Brown Mine Green His Act,show White Internet Gray Watch Black His Car Sing Purple Live Pink Address Listen Page Telephone Number Yellow Blue Old Videophone Actor Orange Television Light Street Love-It Web page ( at ) Musician Drive-to

33 Read on page 101 about how Deaf people the phone.

34 Remember to sign the variation preferred by your local community. Birthday (1) is used most in our community.

35 Spell out the whole month March April May June July January - JAN February - FEB August - AUG September SEPT October - OCT November NOV December - DEC Spell out the month s abbreviation!

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37 To celebrate Season Depends Spring Fall Summer How many Winter Month Year

38 Major Holidays p. 106

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40 Christmas Easter Halloween Hanukkah Independence Day Kwanzaa Memorial Day New Year s Day Passover St. Patrick s Day Thanksgiving Valentine s Day

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42 Inside Outside Weather 1 Weather 2

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44 To be cloudy To snow To be cold To be sunny To be cool To be warm To be hot Waves To rain To be windy

45 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

46 Chicago Christmas City, town Close to, near Cloudy Cold Color Comment Cool Court Dark December Here His, hers, its Denver Depends Dot, period Easter Fall Far February From Gray Green Grow up Halloween Hanukkah

47 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

48 November Number Ocean October Old Orange Ours Outside Page Pager Passover Philadelphia Pink Purple Rain Red Road Rollerblade Salt Lake City San Francisco

49 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

50 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

51 California Oregon Washington Arizona Mexico Spanish Colorado Montana Texas New York West Virginia Colorado Montana Texas