Getting Around Town

• American Sign Language
• 9th Grade

Getting Around Town

Objectives:

-Connect going to school and getting around town

-Understand CL: bent V and when to use it

-Learn "Getting around town" vocabulary

-Apply learned vocabulary to maps

-Identify the difference between signing to take up and to ride in

Period 7 

-Please find a partner/group

-Work on this together (there are a couple partner/group activities)

How do you get to school?

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 

Corner

to get in

to get out

to ride in

intersection

Highway/freeway

left direction

right direction

stop light

traffic

subway

stop sign

Note:

Intersection

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 

Stop Sign

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 

Subway

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 

Highway/freeway

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 

What direction is the car turning?

1. 
2. 

What direction is the car turning?

1. 
2. 

Observing Bent V being used

ASL Notebook: 

*Watch the following video to see how CL: bent V is used. 

*Watch it a second time and try to write out the conversation

Answer: 

How did he use CL: bent V (what mode of transportation)

Conversation time:

Sign to a partner (use the full 3 min): 

How do you arrive to school? 

1. Partner 1 Using ASL structure ask a partner in FULL SENTENCES how they arrive to school. 

2. Partner 2, respond. 

3. Partner 2 ask how they arrive to school

4. Partner 1, respond

arrive

Note:

You would sign to take up for a class. Example: I take ASL.

Transportation

ASL Notebook: write an ASL sentence for each picture then practice signing it. Don't know a sign, look it up.

Sentence help

look at the prior slide