LESSON 2: PRONOUNS, QUESTIONS, TIME INDICATORS
Communicating with the Sign Language Lab Instructors:
1.
I need videotape number one.
2.
Thank you / You are welcome.
3.
Please help me practice these sentences.
4.
How do you sign _____________ ?
5.
I’m sorry. I don’t understand.
6. Please repeat the fingerspelling.
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7.
When will you graduate?
8.
What happened? What’s going on?
9.
What time does your study group meet?
10. My morning classes meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
11. My afternoon classes meet on Tuesday and Thursday.
12. When I was a freshman, I had classes that met everyday.
13. What time does the sun rise? It sets early in the winter.
14. Do you work all day on Saturdays?
15. We get paid twice a month, but we pay rent once a month.
16. Can you eat lunch with me today at 12:30?
17. I studied for 2 hours last night.
18. That girl is always late to class.
19. I thought Spring semester would last forever.
20. Have you met many Deaf students?
21. Why can’t you practice tomorrow?
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22. Wait just a minute.
23. Our teacher was 15 minutes late !
24. I just finished reading that book.
25. I will not be here next week.
26. We went to California for our vacation last year.
27. We had our first test 2 weeks ago.
28. What will you be doing next year during summer break?
29. My family has a July 4th picnic every year.
30. When is your birthday?
31. How long have you lived here?
32. My parents have been married a long time.
33. If you turn off your voice, your ASL skills will improve.
34. Semesters last for 15 weeks.
35. I interpret for the club meetings once a month.
36. Did you begin college right after high school?
37. Young children don’t like to take turns.
38. Our family went skiing during Christmas break 2 years ago.
39. I remember the first time I cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving.
40. Fall semester begins in August. Do you know which day?
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Practice Sentences (TIME)
1. Our family got together 2 weeks ago.
2. The test will be 3 weeks from now.
3. Last year I was a freshman.
4. Every year my parents visit England.
5. Every week my study group meets.
6. Meet me tomorrow afternoon at 1:00.
7. The test will be next Thursday morning at 10:00.
8. Last Wednesday night my brother got married.
9. Last night I studied for 3 hours.
10. Yesterday afternoon I stayed in the library for 2 hours.
11. Every month I have to pay rent.
12. I started college 2 months ago.
13. Three months from now I will live in Salt Lake City.
14. Next year I will be a senior.
15. I meet mom for breakfast every Tuesday morning at 9:00.
16. Every Sunday afternoon my family goes on a h-i-k-e (spell it).
17. Next Saturday afternoon I am going to California.
18. Just this past Saturday I met some deaf people.
19. Next Friday night my sister is getting married.
20. Every week I have to go to Las Vegas.
21. Six weeks ago I started learning sign language.
22. Nine weeks from now my sister is getting married.
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23. The baby will be born in 28 weeks.
24. My parents have been married 30 years.
25. I have lived here for 8 years.
26. My niece Is 11 months old.
27. My sister has been married for 9 years and 3 months.
28. The sign club meets on the first Tuesday of every month.
29. There will be no meeting on the last Sunday of this month.
30. This year my grandmother will be 96 years old.
31. This semester I have 5 classes.
32. This Thursday I have 3 tests.
33. Sixteen students will graduate next Friday at 6:00 p.m.
34. My brother will be 18 next week.
35. There are 11 children in her family.
36. Next month the twins will be 7 years old.
37. I will graduate in one more year.
38. My parents graduated from USU twenty years ago.
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Practice With Questions
1. Why are you learning sign language?
2. What do you plan to do after you graduate?
3. If you go to graduate school, what will your major be?
4. What is your major now?
5. How many classes do you have now ?
6. Where do your parents live?
7. Are you the oldest, youngest, or in the middle in your family?
8. Where do you work?
9. Do you have any classes on Tuesday and Thursday ?
10. What do you plan to do Friday after class?
11. What is your mother's name?
12. What is the name of your favorite class this semester?
13. Did you have any p-e-t-s growing up? What did you have?
14. Have you met any Deaf students? How many?
15. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
16. Is anyone in your family deaf?
17. How many classes are you taking now? How many hours?
18. How many days a week do you work? How many hours per week?
19. When did you graduate from high school?
20. What do you plan to do after you graduate?
21. Does your family go on a vacation every year?
22. Do you have a sign language study group? When does it meet?
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23. Do you eat breakfast every morning? What do you eat?
24. Where do you eat lunch? Do you eat there every day?
25. How many classes have you missed so far this semester?
26. When you were in high school did you go to the football games
every Friday?
27. When is your birthday?
28. How long have you been at Utah State?
29. What is your favorite season? Why?
30. Have you ever changed your major?
31. What year were you born?
32. What did you do last night?
33. When will you graduate?
34. Where do you work? Where would you like to work?
35. Do you work during the summer? What do you do?
36. How many children do your parents have? How many girls?
How many boys?
37. During your first semester in college, how many hours did you take?
38. How many final exams will you have this semester?
39. How many classes did you take last semester?
40. Where did you grow up? How long did you live there?
41. What are your plans this summer?
42. When you were in high school, how many students were in your
senior graduating class?
43. Do you have classes this semester that meet everyday?
44. Where do your parents work?
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45. What time do you wake up every morning? What time do you
wake up on Saturday and Sunday?
46. What time is your first class on Monday?
47. What time is your last class on Friday?
48. How many books did you have to buy this semester?
49. Do you live in an apartment or a house? How many people live with you?
50. How many classes do you have on Tuesday and Thursday?
51. How many classes do you have on Monday, Wednesday and Friday?
52. Where do you want to work after you graduate?
53. Did you work when you were in high school? Where?
54. What time do your classes begin on Monday?
55. What time do your classes begin on Tuesday?
56. How many classes do you have on Friday?
57. What classes do you have today ?
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Lesson 2 Vocabulary
who
friend
wait
what
late
time
when
read
what time
where
California
yesterday
how
ski
tomorrow
why
interpret
past/long ago
how
improve
future/long time from now
how many
get worse
hour
please
turn off voice
minute
thank you
continue/last skill
week
sorry
fall
every week
number
spring
month
videotape
summer
every month
practice
winter
year
fingerspell
semester
every year
book
birthday
test
someone/something
favorite
each/every
what’s going on?
early
next
what for/why
sunrise
last
which
sunset
recently
happen
morning
every morning
what happened
noon
every night
when (time)
afternoon
always
when (event)
night
forever
yourself
breakfast
sometimes
myself
lunch
every once in a while
alone
supper
once
library
all night
twice
pay
all day
later
eat
every day
if
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every (Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun.)
school for the Deaf/residential school
along, how long, for a long time
Since, have been, all along, how long
Number incorporation Onto the Sign:
1-9 :
_____ weeks from now
_____ weeks ago
every ___ weeks
_____ months
every ___ months
_____ days
_____ hours
_____ minutes
1 – 5 : _____ years from now
_____ years ago
every ___ years
Know all of the days of the week.
Know all of the months of the year.
Know the following holidays:
Valentine’s Day
President’s Day
April Fool’s Day
Easter
Mother’s Day
Father’s Day
July 4th, 24th
Halloween
Thanksgiving
Christmas
New Year’s Day
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