Describing People Pages 293-318
To be humble To be quiet Tribe, group
To be bald To be chubby, fat Face Hair To be in good shape Freckles To look like Gut, belly To lose weight To be thin To be pregnant To be well built
Watch DVD! Follow this sequence to describe physical characteristics: 1.) Gender 2.) Ethnicity/background (optional) 3.) Height 4.) Body type 5.) Eyes, hair, and other details such as clothing. (Important you want to know this!!)
Accent Steps p. 296 Point towards these body parts: eyes, ears, and nose Short and tall share the same sign as child and adult Person with a disability fingerspell DA. Words like handicapped (HC) or impaired (HI) are not acceptable anymore. First sign hair, then add the color (Important you want to know this!!)
Expression Corner p. 296 LOOK STRONG Use LOOK STRONG to show that two people share many of the same physical characteristics. In English, you could say I look a lot like or they look a lot alike or just I/He/She looks like my/his/her
Continents Countries North America USA, America Canada Mexico Central America South America Asia Russia China Japan Africa Egypt Australia Europe Spain France Germany England Italy Switzerland Antarctica http://geology.com/world/world-map.gif
Arab Hispanic, Latino, Mexican Asian Indian Black, African American To mix Ethnicity Native American, Indian Half White, Caucasian
Bangs Mustache Beard Braids Curly hair Goatee Long Hair Pony Tail Short hair (1-3) Sideburns
Accent Steps p. 303 To Braid Note how the VERB to braid differs from how you sign the NOUN braid. Remember BRAID or put the BRAIDS where they are on the person!
Video Time: Physical Descriptions Remember the order in which you describe people! 1.) Gender 2.) Ethnicity/background (optional) 3.) Height 4.) Body type 5.) Eyes, hair, and other details such as clothing.
To be bald Hair To be chubby, fat To be in good shape Face To look like Freckles To lose weight Gut, belly To be pregnant To be thin To be well built
Arab Asian Black, African American Hispanic, Latino, Mexican Indian To mix Ethnicity Half Native American, Indian White, Caucasian
Bangs Mustache Beard Pony Tail Braids Short hair (1-3) Curly hair Sideburns Goatee To be humble Long Hair To be quiet Tribe, group
To be afraid To be nervous Broken hearted To be nosy To be embarrassed Personality To be emotional To be polite To be frustrated To be rude Motormouth To be strong To worry To be weak
Examples? Page 308 CE M #2. Deaf tend theirs (p. 308) Expression Corner Deaf tend theirs The expression deaf tend theirs is used to discuss specific attitudes, beliefs and habits or other characteristics found within the Deaf culture as a whole. It means something Deaf people do. The phrase tend theirs can be applied to an individual OR a group of people.
Use big head to describe somebody who is arrogant, a know it all, overconfident, or is self-absorbed.
Hearing aid Cochlear implant To be blind Disability
To be humble To lose weight To be quiet To be pregnant Tribe, group To be well built Hair To be bald To be in good shape To be chubby, fat To look like Face Cochlear implant To be blind
Freckles Ethnicity Gut, belly Half To be thin Hispanic, Latino, Mexican Arab Indian Asian To mix Black, African American Hearing aid
Bangs Mustache Beard Pony Tail Braids Short hair 1-3 Curly hair Sideburns Goatee Big headed Long Hair To braid
To be afraid To be nervous Broken hearted To be nosy To be embarrassed Personality To be emotional To be polite To be frustrated To be rude Motormouth To be strong To worry To be weak
How are you feeling? Health Vocabulary p. 313. All right, okay Doctor Allergies, to be allergic To feel To be better Fever Chicken pox To heal, get better Cold (health) Medicine To cough To feel nauseous
To sneeze Flu Sore throat To sprain Sunburn Tonsils (to remove) To vomit
POW! (aka HIT) Use Pow in these situations: Catching an illness (instead of to have or get) Signing about something unexpected happening. Examples: You pow a cold you don t catch it! You were walking home and pow! It started raining. TRY SIGNING THE EXAMPLES ABOVE!
Bless You a.k.a. Gesundheit p. 314 There is NOT a particular sign for gesundheit; however on the right you will see 2 examples of how people sign it. The first way is a one-handed version of BLESS so you are basically saying bless you! The second way is making the sign of the cross on the person as if being blessed in church.
Move the sign Hurt around your body to change the meaning to headache, earache, or stomachache. You can do the same thing with CL: 4. Using this classifier you can mean running water, nosebleed or blood depending on the area the sign is signed in. Look on page 315 for some examples.
Desert Mountain Flower Plant Hill River Island Star Lake Sun Moon Tree
All right, okay Afraid Allergies, to be allergic Arab Asian Bald Bangs To be better African American Blind Braid Broken Heart Chicken pox Chubby, fat Cochlear implant Cold (health) To cough Curly hair Desert Doctor Embarrassed Emotional Ethnicity Face
Feel Feel nauseous Fever Flower Freckles Frustrated Goatee Gut, belly Hair Half Headache Heal, to get better Hearing aid Hill Hispanic Humble Hurt In good shape Indian Island Lake Long hair Look like Lose weight Medicine Mix Moon Motormouth Mountain Mustache
Mountain Mustache Native American Nervous Nosebleed Nosy Ocean Personality Plant Polite Pony tail Pregnant Quiet River Rude Short hair 1-3 Side burns Sneeze Sore throat Sprain Star Strong Sun Thin Tonsils
Review Tree Tribe, group Vomit Weak Well built White (person) Worry