Rule of 9
Sign 5-HOURS
5-HOURS
Sign the following in ASL: I am very skilled at basketball.
BASKETBALL ME SKILLED ME.
What is the sign for poetry in general, and what is the sign for ASL poetry?
Music initialized with a P, grasping something from your heart area
What is a tense marker?
Signs at the beginning of the sentence to show past and future
Sign the following in ASL: It was my birthday 2 weeks ago.
2-WEEK PAST BIRTHDAY MINE
Sign 36-MONTH
36-MONTH
Sign the following in ASL: Have you ever been skiing before?
YOU EXPERIENCE SKI YOU?
In English, explain how to "rhyme" in ASL.
You use rhythm, handshapes, and classifiers to keep the functions of the auditory rhymes.
Sign the following in ASL: I used to live in California.
PAST CALIFORNIA ME LIVE
Sign the following in ASL: I have a test in a few days.
FEW-DAY TEST ME HAVE
Sign the following sentence in ASL. I ate at a Mexican restaurant 3 days ago.
3-DAY AGO RESTAURANT MEXICAN ME EAT
Sign the following in ASL: In the summer, I like to swim.
DURING SUMMER ME LIKE SWIM ME.
What are ASL narratives usually about?
Something in Deaf history, Deaf humor, or some way in which the Deaf person overcomes a challenge because of their deafness
Sign the following in ASL: When will you get married? In 4 years.
YOU MARRY WHEN? 4 YEARS FUTURE (Numerical incorporation)
Name the 5 parameters in ASL
Handshape, Palm Orientation, Location, Movement, NMS
Sign the following in ASL: I will graduate in three months.
FUTURE 3-MONTH ME GRADUATE ME
Sign the following in ASL: Do you prefer skydiving or bungee jumping?
YOU PREFER SKYDIVE (shift) BUNGEE JUMP WHICH?
Sign the following in ASL: Last week, we watched ASL poems, classifier stories, and handshape rhymes.
LAST-WEEK, WE WATCH ASL-POETRY, CL STORY, HANDSHAPE RHYME.
Sign the following in ASL: I practice ASL on the weekends.
DURING WEEKEND fs-ASL ME PRACTICE ME.
Sign the following in ASL: I bought a new car 4 weeks ago.
4-WEEK-AGO CAR NEW ME BUY
Sign the following in ASL: In the future, I want to go to the Deaflympics.
FUTURE ME WANT GO-TO DEAFLYMPICS ME.
Using ASL, explain what an ABC story is.
An ABC story is a type of ASL literature that uses the handshapes from each letter of the alphabet to tell a story.
Explain how the ASL timeline works in English with signs for example.
The body is a timeline with past events happening behind you, recent events happening close to the body, and future events happening in front of you.
Sign the following in ASL: Huge crowds went to the movie on Saturday.
SATURDAY MOVIE CROWDS-FLOCK-TO