Colors & Shapes
What color and shape is a stop sign?
Red and a hexagon
Sign and answer the following: What is 2 + 5 =?
7
What color is your instructor's hair?
Black, brown, or blonde
How would you sign: "My favorite color is blue"?
MY FAVORITE COLOR WHAT (RHQ) BLUE
What is the name of the only four year university founded for deaf students?
Gallaudet University
What color and shape is a railroad crossing sign?
Yellow and circle
Contrastive Structure requires the following in ASL:
Slight shifting of the body from one side to the other
Nodding of the head to each side slightly
End the sentence with “WHICH” sign
(pg 119)
What is the person to your right wearing?
Describe clothes, hair, name, etc
How would you sign: "What's your mom's name?"
YOUR MOM NAME WHAT (WHQ)
Name three ways you can get a deaf person's attention
Turn the lights on and off, stomp on the ground, wave hand, tap table, etc
What color and shape is money?
Green and a rectangle
Ordinal Numbers are used for:
To place objects in an order
pg 122
Describe your ASL professor
Include their name, what they look like, are they deaf or hearing, etc
How would you sign: "I like to travel to France"?
I LIKE TRAVEL WHERE (RHQ) FRANCE
Name three famous deaf individuals. What did the three from your book do to make them famous?
Andrew Foster: Teacher/Minister/Educated deaf children in Africa.
Regina Olsen-Hughes, Illustrator that painted botanicals (flowers)
Douglas Tilden: Sculputor/Advocate opposing Oralism.
Marlee Matlin, Nyle DiMarco, Ludwig van Beethoven, Helen Keller, Laurent Clerc, etc
What color and shape is the American flag?
Red, white, and blue, rectangle with stars and stripes
What are the five (5) strategies you use to ask for a sign if you don’t know the sign or don’t remember it? (hint:Fingerspelling is not an option)
Point to the object
Use opposites signs
Use categories of signs you already know
Describe/Act out the object
Draw a picture of the object or how you use it.
Describe yourself
Describe your clothes, your hair, your shoes, etc
How would you sign: "My favorite animal is a dog, because they're cute"?
MY FAVORITE ANIMAL WHAT (RHQ) DOG WHY (RHQ) THEY CUTE
While watching another person sign, it is appropriate to focus on the signer’s:
Whole Face
What color and shape is a Rubix's cube?
Red, green, white, orange, yellow, and blue, cube with many squares on each side
Sign and answer: What is 25 + 22?
47
Describe what your dorm/apartment/house looks like
How many floors is it, what does it look like, who are your roommates, etc
How would you sign: "I like learning ASL because it's a beautiful language and I can talk with different people"?
I LIKE LEARNING ASL WHY (RHQ) IT BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE AND I TALK WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE
What is the least effective communication strategy between Deaf and hearing people?
Speech and lip-reading