What's your hometown like?

• American Sign Language

Unit 9 My Home and Community

Unit Objectives

• Describe your home and community
• Sign money using the money spot and dollar twist
• Describe objects using spatialization techniques
• Understand and give street directions
• Understand how social changes affect the Deaf World
• Learn and apply non-manual signs

Final

Your final will be the Unit 

Today's Vocabulary

What is your hometown like?

ALSO

CURIOUS

DIFFERENT (plural)

EAST

LOUSY

MORE THAN

Types of housing

DORM

HOUSE

MANSION

MOBILE HOME

WHAT KIND?

Fingerspell:

apartment, studio

cabin

condo, townhouse, duplex

What's your hometown like?

Watch Marc sign what his hometown is like.

We will read the dialogue and then watch it being signed.

Vocabulary you recognized

Answer Marc's Question. Do you like the area you live?

Yes

No

Sometimes

Where do you live dialogue

Ask a partner

YOU ENJOY AREA/LOCATION YOU?

YES/NO I LIKE/DISLIKE AREA I

Materials you need

1. Whiteboard 

2. Marker

Directions:  We will go through each sentence, write down the sentence on your whiteboard, if you don't know the sign leave it blank.

What Kind?

Picture Talk

dorm

duplex

cha

apartment

condo

dorm

duplex

cabin

house

mansion

mobile home

studio apartment

townhouse

Picture Talk

dorm

duplex

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

Practice

I will hand out a picture 1-2 per group. In ASL no talking with a partner or group of three identify the following:

1. What type of housing is it

2. Think back: what size 

Try to do this in ASL sentneces: 

HOUSE WHAT ________

__________ SIZE ______

HOUSE MANSION

MANSION SIZE BIG

Gimkit

What's your hometown like?

also

curious

different

plural

lousy

more

than