⏳ASL Level 5, Activity 01-Speed Dating (Online)

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Description:

Students will begin by introducing themselves and getting to know their new lab mates. They will then have 5-7 minutes of open-ended conversation. The main activity allows them to get to know each other further in a “speed dating” game.

Semantic Topics: Speed Dating, Introductions, Likes, Dislikes
Grammatical Structures: Listing, WHQs, Facial Expression with Questions
Products: Asking questions and exclaiming about personal taste.
Practices: Forming complex questions and crafting responses.
Perspectives: What are appropriate answers to complex questions?

Standards

NCSSFL-ACTFL 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.

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

Can-Do Statements

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can exchange information and ideas in discussions on a variety of familiar and concrete academic and social topics, using a few simple paragraphs across major time frames
  • I can tell stories about school and community events and personal experiences, using paragraphs across major time frames.
  • I can understand people’s reactions to their vacation experience

Materials Needed

Warm-up

Materials Needed for Warm-up

  1. Ask students to type ID # for attendance
    • “YOU LIST 2- NAME, ID NUMBER TYPE”
  2. Have students introduce themselves:
    1. Name
    2. Major
    3. Year in school
    4. Hometown
    5. Hobby
      • “TAKE TURNS LIST 5-NAME, MAJOR, YEAR, FROM rhq-WHERE?, FUN DO-DO?”
    6. Review Vocabulary:
      1. BIOLOGY
        • Left and right hand shapes B with palms facing outwards. Left hand moves in a clockwise motion and the right hand moves in a counterclockwise motion.
      2. EDUCATION
        • Left and right hand shapes E located on both sides of head. Change handshape from E to D.
      3. NURSING 
        • Dominant hand shaped H tapping twice on non-dominant hand’s wrist.
      4. HISTORY
        • Dominant hand shaped H moves in up and down motion twice.
      5. PSYCHOLOGY
        • Left and right hand shaped closed 5 with thumb sticking out. Non-dominant hand’s palm facing out. Dominant hand taps in space between non-dominant hand’s fingers and thumb twice.
    7. Have students take turns and pick one discussion question to answer:
      1. What is your major/minor?
        • “YOUR MAJOR/MINOR WHAT?”
      2. When do you graduate?
        • “YOU GRADUATE WHEN?”
      3. Where is your hometown?
        • “YOUR HOMETON WHERE?.”
      4. What are some of your hobbies?
        • “YOUR HOBBIES WHAT?”
  3. Discussion:
    1. Have students have a 5-7 minute conversation (fully ASL) with each other.
      • “NOW TIME 5 7 MINUTE CONVERSATION DISCUSS WHATEVER”  

Main Activity

Materials Needed for Main Activity

“Back to School Speed Dating”

  1. Put students into breakout rooms 2-3 people depending on the size of the group
    • “NOW GAME FAST DATE BREAKOUT ROOMS 2 PEOPLE 3 PEOPLE”
  2.  Students will discuss one question for 2-3 minutes then close the breakout rooms
    • “2-3 MINUTES PARTNERS 1 QUESTION DISCUSS FINISH ME BREAKOUT ROOMS CLOSE”
  3. Then open new breakout rooms (make sure students are all with new partners).
    • “TIME FINISH PARTNER SWITCH BREAKOUT ROOMS NEW CONTINUE” 

Wrap-up

  1.  How did you like the lab activity?
    • FAST DATE FINISH YOU LIKE DISLIKE WHAT?”
  2. Did you have any questions about any of the signs your classmates used?
    • “NEW SIGNS QUESTIONS HAVE?”
  3. Did you learn any new signs today?
    • “YOU NEW SIGNS LEARN?”

Deaf Culture

Dating in Deaf culture is very similar to dating in hearing culture although dating outside of the Deaf community is very difficult because most hearing people do not know sign language or understand Deaf culture so options are much more limited.

End of Lab:

  • Sign or show 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 exchange information and ideas in discussions on a variety of familiar and concrete academic and social topics, using a few simple paragraphs across major time frames
  • I can tell stories about school and community events and personal experiences, using paragraphs across major time frames.
  • I can understand people’s reactions to their vacation experience

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