✌️ASL Level 1, Lab 14-Vocabulary (Signs) Review (Face-to-Face)
Description:
In this activity, students will practice answering questions about themselves. Students will also review what they have learned through the course of the semester.
Semantic Topics: Speed, Unit Review
Grammatical Structures: Vocabulary, Questions, Facial Expression
Products: Vocabulary
Practices: Identifying a variety of vocabulary signs presented through pictures
Perspectives: How are competitive ASL games used to build a sense of community?
Standards
World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations and correspondence in American Sign Language to provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions
- Standard 1.2: Students comprehend and interpret live and recorded American Sign Language on a variety of topics.
- Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of American Sign Language and their own languages.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- COMM 1.1: Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
- COMM 2.1: Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- COMP 1.1: Observe formal and informal forms of language.
- COMP 1.2: Identify patterns and explain discrepancies, the sounds, and the writing system in the target language.
- COMP 1.3: Compare and analyze idiomatic expressions in the target language.
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can introduce myself and others
- I can answer a variety of simple questions
- I can ask some simple questions
- I can communicate some basic information about my everyday life
Materials Needed
Warm-up
Materials Needed for Warm Up
- Ask students how they are doing.
- “HOW YOU?”
- Ask if they have any questions for class.
- “YOU QUESTIONS CLASS HAVE?”
- Are there any signs they want to review?
- “YOU SIGNS REVIEW WANT?”
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
- Start by dividing the group into two teams.
- “NOW GAME PLAY TEAMS 2”
- Each team will decide who goes first in each group and then play will continue to rotate down the line.
- “TEAM DISCUSS ORDER DECIDE. PERSON START WHO?”
- All the cards have a picture to represent vocabulary.
- Hold up one card, the team that signs the picture first gets the card.
- “ME CARD SHOW-YOU. TEAM SIGN FIRST CARD KEEP”
- Once all the cards have been signed, the team that has the most wins.
- “GAME FINISH TEAM CARDS MOST WHO? WIN!”
Wrap-up
- How comfortable are you with the vocabulary?
- “YOU VOCABULARY COMFORTABLE FEEL?”
- Any you want to review or go over?
- “YOU PRACTICE WHATEVER WANT?”
Deaf Culture Notes
Deaf people get to know one another on a very personal level. That is why it is so important to be able to share information about yourself in sign language.
End of Lab:
- Read Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate their confidence.
- (Use thumbs up/thumbs down or download our student cards.)
- Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation.
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can introduce myself and others
- I can answer a variety of simple questions
- I can ask some simple questions
- I can communicate some basic information about my everyday life
