When you point out a person in the room, you need to describe something that helps the listener locate the person quickly. You usually use one or two of these three categories.
What is body position, appearance, and clothing?
100
These are the calendar months and seasons of the year.
What is Jan - Dec and spring, summer, winter, fall?
100
These are the 4 comments used to discribe neighborhood areas.
What is cheerful, cold, mad, and nosey?
100
This is the difference between making a statement about someone and using temporal aspect to describe their personality.
What is signing something once and signing with a repeated movement?
100
These are the two types of name signs
What is arbitrary and descriptive?
200
These are 6 of the 12 materials and metals we learned the signs for this semester.
What is plastic, nylon, silk, cotton, fur, wool, suede, fleece, polyester, gold, silver, and copper?
200
These are 3 of the 5 agreement verbs we learned and how to sign them to me, to you, and to them.
What is tell, pick up/take, call, pay, and inform?
200
These are the 5 of the 7 types of neighborhood areas.
What is downtown, business, machine, home, farm, country, old and new?
200
These are the 6 tolerances of people
What is open-minded, understanding, narrow-minded, stubborn, flexible, and accepting/gullible?
200
These are of the 6 common follow-up statements after greeting Deaf people.
What is how are you, what's up, do you feel better, haven't seen you in a while, where have you been, and where you up til now?
300
These are 4 of the 9 words we used to explain what clothes look like.
What is Pretty, Strange, Cool, Swell, Never See, Different, Old-Fashioned, Ugly, and Loud-Color?
300
This is 4 strategies to ask for a sign you don't know.
What is
list things in the category
use opposites
describe or act out
give definition?
300
These are the 10 opinions of food we learned.
What is delicious, OK, champ, good, fair/so-so, kind of good, lousy, detest/vomit, yuck/awful, and gag?
300
This is how to ask a question using topicalization structure.
What is
-Establish time if specified (raise eyebrows)
-Establish location if specified (raise eyebrows)
-Name the topic (raise eyebrows)
-end with WH-word question using proper facial expression?
300
This is the 7 locations for arbitrary name signs.
What is
on the head - single and dual location
on torso - single and dual location
on non-dominate arm - single and dual location
in neutral space?
400
This is how to sign each of these:
Definition: to exist or to be present; ?to be in possession of; to own
Definition: to be obligated to, to be required to
Definition: to have completed or accomplished (past tense indicator)
Definition: to not possess; is not present, ?or doesn’t exist
Definition: not yet completed or accomplished
What is have, need, finished, none, and not yet?
400
This is how to sign each of these:
Definition: used to express negation, denial, or refusal
Definition: to lack something; not present or doesn’t exist.
Definition: (gesture) to warn or advise against doing something
Definition: not yet completed or accomplished
Definition: to have no desire to;
to have no interest in doing something
Definition: to prohibit; to forbid; to not allow
Definition: to refuse; not willing to
What is none, warning no, not, not yet, don't want, refuse, and illegal?
400
These are the 10 types of restaurants we discussed.
What is Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian, Mexican, Italian, French, Greek, American, and Vegetarian?
400
This is how to ask a question using contrastive structure.
What is
-Name the topic (raise eyebrows)
-Name the choices (role shift/contrastive structure)
-end with WH-word question: Which?
400
These are the 4 key behaviors to keeping others informed.
What is get attention, get permission, be prepared to explain, when to start, and express gratitude?
500
These are 2 of the 4 greetings we learned this semester.
What are Greeting 1 [How are you?, Alright/not alright], Greeting 2 [Ask for update, everything is same/tell about what changed], Greeting 3 [Ask about health, respond], Greeting 4 [Comment on person's absence, explain your absence]?
500
This is a situation: You just parked your car and on your way here you realized you locked your keys in the car.
This is how to fully explain your situation.
What is
Explain problem, ask for advice
tell when
explain the situation
tell what you forgot to do (use conjunction)
ask for advice?
500
These are the three phrases we learned to use when giving directions.
What is
1. ALL-WAY-DOWN GO-PAST (place) TURN-LEFT/RIGHT
2. (#) BLOCK-AWAY, CORNER (name place), TURN-LEFT/RIGHT
3. ALL-WAY-DOWN, INTERSECTION, CROSS-STREET, (name of street), TURN-LEFT/RIGHT?
500
These are the 23 words we learned to describe a person's disposition.
What is cheerful, polite, stuck-up, rude, sweet, mean, mad, humble/modest, big-headed, talkative, boastful, goody-two-shoes, troublesome, mischievous, funny, quiet, strict/stern, soft hearted, neat/cool, strange/odd, active, laid-back, and worried/anxious?
500
These are the two culturally appropriate ways to interrupt a conversation. One is how to interrupt others' conversation, the other is how to interrupt someone signing to you.
What is
others' conversation
-approach and lean over when waving to get attention
-once acknowledged by BOTH, explain the interruption
-apologize before leaving
conversation you are in
-sign "hold on/wait" and wait for Deaf person to acknowledge the interruption before breaking eye contact
-give an explanation of the distraction
-resume or end conversation appropriately?