Chapter 8
Unit Focus
 You will ask and give
information about family
relationships
 Learn how to indicate past,
present, and future tenses.
(FINISH)
 Personal Pronouns
 Common Culture (Are you
deaf?)
Vocabulary
Family
Grandfather
Cousin
Daughter
Nephew
Separated
Parents
Aunt
Husband
Son
Niece
Divorce
Grandmother
Uncle
Wife
Children
Marry
Back-together
Friend
Boyfriend
Grow-upTogether
Recent
Good-friend
Girlfriend
Now, today,
Present
Long-ago
Go-steady
Roommate
Yesterday
before
Vocabulary Continued
Tomorrow
Will
Later
After-Awhile
Far-in-Future
#All
Since
Of-Course
Really
Realize
Long
Short
Time
Birthday
Seem
With
Obsessed
Finish
Movie
neat
Disgusted
Notes
 Culture
 It is very common when asked and while
giving information about your family to state
whether they are Deaf or hearing.
 Deaf individuals believe finding out if a
person is Deaf or HOH will give a better
understanding of the individual.
Grammar Note
Everything in the “past” is behind us.
Everything in the “future” is out in front of
us. Everything that is happening “presently
is right in front of our body.
Present
NOW
TODAY
Past
YESTERDAY
BEFORE
RECENT
LONG-AGO
Future
TOMORROW
WILL
LATER
AFTER-A WHILE
FAR-IN-FUTURE
PERSONAL PROUNOUNS
 The numbers 3,4,and 5, can be
incorporated into some personal
prounouns with a circular movement.
 Anything above five can not be incorporated
 TWO-OF-US
 THREE-OF-US
 ALL-OF-US
!!!FINISH!!!
 You can use the sign finish in a number of
different ways
 By itself to mean the following
 (STOP IT!! Single sharp movement)
 Before or after the verb to show an action is
completed or has been done.
 (Example- BOOK I FINISH READ I or BOOK I READ
FINISH I )
 To indicate the extent or limit of something.
 (Example- “We’re just friends” With repeated
movement”
Activities
Activity #1
 Using the following 10 prompts pick 7. You will
ask if the individual is Deaf/HOH then you will ask
if they Sign.
 Example Prompt is “GOOD-FRIEND”
 YOUR GOOD-FRIEND fs A-L-I DEAF HARD-OF-HEARING
WHICH
Parents
Mother
Father Brother Sister
Grandmother Grandfather Aunt
Uncle
cousin
Activity #2
 With a DIFFERENT partner you will sign the following sentences copy 3 of
them in gloss then create three of your own. Underneath the glossed version
write the sentence in English. Sign to a partner and see if they can voice the
response.
 Example: YOU MARRY WILL
You will get married.
1. YOU-MARRY -NOT
2. HE/SHE/-MARRY-WILL
3. YOU-BRITHDAY-TOMORROW
4. THE THREE OF THEM-COME –
LATER?
5. HE/SHE-BRITHDAY-RECENTLY?
6. YOU-BEFORE-MARRY?
7. YOU-MARRY-IN THE DISTANT
FUTURE
8. YOU-GO-AFT ER A WHILE
9. TWO OF YOU-TAKE TESTBEFORE
10. FOUR OF YOU-MEET –LONG
TIME AGO
Activity #3
Use the prompts and gloss 10 complete sentences. Sign three of these to a
partner and have them indicate which number sentence you have signed.
Ex. I’ve seen your friend
FRIEND I SEE FINISH
1. Seen the movie
2. Passed the test
3. Visited your grandmother
4. Washed clothes
5. Read your ASL book
6. Gotten divorced
7. Sent the letter
8. Turned on the TV
9. Gave him/her the book
10. Got married
Dialogue
Go through the vocabulary with a
partner. Exchange rolls so you
practice all lines in the vocabulary.
Together we will watch the video of the
dialogue. What is different? What is
the same?
Extra Practice
Create Dialogue
Create a dialogue alone or with a partner
that has 15-20 vocabulary from chapter 8.
This is due before you leave today. GLOSS