Days of the week, Questions, Conversations

• American Sign Language
• 9th Grade

Lessons 

1. Days of the week 

2. Numbers

3. Question Signs

4. Conversation

Vocabulary

Making Conversation

to eat, food

to be hungry

to be ready

restaurant

with

Days of the Week

Monday-Sunday

Activities

to chat/hang out

do-do/what-do

enjoy, have fun

kick back, take it easy

play sports

work/job

When

yesterday 

day

everyday

week

weekend

today

tomorrow

Days of the week

Mondays 

Tuesday

Wednesday 

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

When/how often

yesterday 

day

everyday

week

weekend

today

tomorrow

now

Numbers

1-20

Making Conversation

to eat, food

to be hungry

to be ready

restaurant

with

Activities

to chat/hang out

do-do/what-do

enjoy, have fun

kick back, take it easy

play sports

work/job

party

Today

• Review Classroom objects and commands
• Learn days of the weeks and how often
• Learn numbers 1-20

Days of the Week/How Often

Warm-up

Place the following in the correct ASL order. Think back to the last lesson and the video you just watched.

COMMAND

LOCATION

OBJECT

What is your favorite day of the week?

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Days of the week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

When/how often

yesterday 

day

everyday

week

weekend

today

tomorrow

now

yesterday

everyday

today

tomorrow

day

week

weekend

Blooket- look on the agenda

Day of the week

Numbers

1-20

Numbers Blooket-look on the agenda

If you finish early, you can work on homework. Please make sure to still stay quiet. Thank you!

In the classroom

test, exam

to write

to hand out

to grade

to erase (on paper)

homework

to study

What vocab do you see?

test

to write

to hand out

to grade

to erase (on paper)

to study

homework

Creating ASL Sentences

time-topic-comment

time (how often vocabulary)-topic (what is it about or the main point)-comment (everything else in the sentence)

EVERY DAY STUDY I

I will give you and your partner a vocab word. Create a sentence using the vocab word. You will present your sentence to the class. Incorporate days of the week and how often. EX- EVERY DAY STUDY I (time-topic-comment)

vocab for sentences

test, exam

to write

to hand out

to grade

to erase (on paper)

homework

to study

Making Conversation

to eat, food

to be hungry

to be ready

restaurant

with

to eat

to be hungry

to be ready

restaurant

with

Practice

MY FAVORITE RESTAURANT WHAT? ____________

MY FAVORITE FOOD _____

5 Min Brain Break

Activities

to chat/hang out

do-do/what-do

enjoy, have fun

kick back, take it easy

play sports

work/job

party

do-do/what-do

party

to chat/hang out

enjoy, have fun

kick back, take it easy

play sports

work

You like DO-what?

I like _______.

to chat/hang out

do-do/what-do

enjoy, have fun

kick back, take it easy

play sports

work/job

party

Objectives

-Review Making Conversation, Activities, and Days of the Week

-Understand tense in ASL grammar

-Discuss The American Sign Language Timeline

-Practice signs for "when"

-Connect and Create doing activities with days of the week 

-Create sentences using days of the week and activities

With a partner Review the Following

1. With a partner review the following slides/vocabulary

2. I will pull sticks, you and your partner will show the class the sign

Making Conversation

to eat, food

to be hungry

to be ready

restaurant

with

Activities

to chat/hang out

do-do/what-do

enjoy, have fun

kick back, take it easy

play sports

work/job

party

Days of the Week

Monday 

Tuesday

Wednesday 

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Activities you do/on what day(s)

Grammar Time

Video Notes

Learn how to sign in American Sign Language! How do you sign tense? Your one-minute fix is simply to start with the time and leave the sign the same. Click "more" for details...

Further explanation:

In English, we may change the verb (for example, the word "go" becomes "went," "will go," or "am going").

In ASL, the verb is not changed. Instead, the tense is established at the beginning of a sentence or story, and the verb stays the same, regardless of whether it takes place in the past, present, or future.

Verbs CAN change for temporal aspect, but this is more about the manner in which an action is performed than about when in time it takes place. (This is for another lesson.)

One thing that many new signers struggle with is how to show tense (past, present and future) while signing. 

In ASL, you don't sign words like went or going or suffixes like "ing", "ed" or "s".

By including the sign NOW at the beginning of a sentence, you can clarify the sentence is in the present tense.

English Version: I am going to the store.

ASL Version: NOW + RESAURANT + I + GO.

By including the sign PAST or BEFORE (the open hand waves back over the shoulder in a single motion) at the beginning of a sentence, you can change the meaning of the sentence from present to past

English Version: I went to the store.

ASL Version: BEFORE + STORE + I + GO

00:21

Signs that show when something happens, such as day of the week come first in a sentence?

True

False

00:41

Which example was correct?

1

2

What is your picture number?
Type the sentence you created.

Alternatively, you can make the sentence show past tense by adding the sign FINISH to the end OR the beginning of the sentences.

English Version: I went to the store.

ASL Version 1: STORE + I + GO + FINISH

ASL Version 2: FINISH + STORE + I + GO

You can make the sentence show future tense by adding the sign NEXT to the beginning of the sentences.

English Version: I will go to the store.

ASL Version: NEXT + STORE + I + GO

To summarize, in ASL we use the following signs to clarify the tense:

NEXT to show FUTURE TENSE

PAST/BEFORE or FINISH to show PAST TENSE

NOW to show PRESENT TENSE

The time of the day that the signer is signing the phrase can effect how the sentence is interpreted, even though the words/signs are exactly the same.

For example, if the sentence below was signed in the morning, the interpretation would be as shown: "Tonight, I will eat dinner."

English Version: Tonight, I will eat dinner.

ASL Version: NOW + EVENING + I + EAT + DINNER

But if the same sentence was signed late in the evening, its' interpretation would be: "Tonight, I ate dinner".

English Version: Tonight, I ate dinner.

ASL Version: NOW + EVENING + I + EAT + DINNER

Partner

to chat/hang out

do-do/what-do

enjoy, have fun

kick back, take it easy

play sports

2

1

4

3

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

Exit Ticket

00:06

Select the correct sentence

1. yesterday I went to school
2. everyday I go home
3. tomorrow I go home
4. everyday I go to school

00:09

On what day of the week does she go to work?

work

Saturday

Monday

00:13

On Saturday she likes to do what?

00:16

On____ I do what _____ and _____.

1. Sunday, study, homework
2. Saturday, study, homework
3. Sunday, chat with friends, take it easy
4. Saturday, chat with friends, take it easy

00:18

What question did she ask?