Unit 9: Making
Requests



                     Gallaudet University
                            ASL Program
                 Signing Naturally Level 1
                            Rev.: 3/2010
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Signer’s Perspective
Spatial Verbs
Plain Verbs
Spatial Verbs
Spatial Verbs
Spatial Verbs
Spatial Verbs
Spatial Verbs
Spatial Verbs
Spatial Verbs
Giving
Locations
To practice signing specific locative or spatial
relationships from the signer’s perspective
Making Requests
• A: give reason, request that B get an object
  from the kitchen
• B: agree, ask where
• A: identify location, tell where object is in
  relation to that location
• B: (mark corresponding location in your
  picture)
Activity: Making Requests
Activity



 “My Shoes, Where?”
“My Shoes,
Where?”
To practice signing specific locative or spatial
relationships from the signer’s perspective
Numbers
Activity
Numbers 51 – 75
One dollar and less
¢/$ #
Money Numbers
How Much?



            +
How Much?


            +
How Much?




       +
How Much?




       +    +
How Much?




            +       +


                +
Inflecting Verbs

To practice give commands using inflecting verbs
Inflected Verbs




                  Micaela se ve a sí mism
Narrative
Practice
Sign short narratives, using inflecting verbs and role
shifting
Give Reasons, Make Requests


• Signer A: Give reason/
  complaint, make request

• Signer B: respond, perform
  request
Student’s Workbook



•Give and Take
  Who?     How much?
            Student Workbook p. 109
Give Reasons, Make Requests

Polite request (formal)
    •Strangers
    •Elderly people
    •Bosses
Familiar request
    •co-workers
Commands (informal)
    •Intimate friends
    •children
Give Reasons, Make Requests
Making Requests
Making Requests
“Patient wants
What?”
“Patient Wants What?”
• Signer A: give reason/complaint,
  make request

• Signer B: Acknowledge or       ask for clarification
             (perform request)       (which, what, where)


• Signer A: repeat request (specify)

• Signer B: acknowledge
Problems and Requests
Problems and Requests
Problems and Requests
Making suggestion
Negative
“Please FOR+ME”
Line Up

To review vocabulary, encourage spontaneous
communication and practice conversation
management strategies
Fingerspelling

Same/Different and Months
Offering Assistance


 • Signer A: complain
 • Signer B: offer assistance
 • Signer A: respond
   (accept/decline)
What’s Out
There?
To integrate appropriate facial expressions and body
classifiers in simple role shifting.
To practice using descriptive and locative
  classifiers, correct spatialization and eye gaze.
  Also to practice using confirming and clarifying
Picture It strategies.
  conversation
$ # & Inflected Verbs
            = GIVE-TO,
                 = TAKE-FROM




Margarita               Delia               Abe




Abe                     Margarita               Delia




Delia                    Abe        Margarita
FINISH
Learning American Sign Language

    By Tom Humphries &
        Carol Padden, 1992

        pp. 102 – 103 and p. 185
Checking If Done
Signer A: check if B already did
 something
Signer B: respond that you
 haven’t yet
Signer A: offer assistance
Signer B: respond
Works Cited:
Smith, C., Lentz, E., and Mikos, K. (1988).
 Signing naturally: Teacher’s curriculum guide
 level 1 and classroom language videotape.
 CA: DawnSignPress

Unit 9-Day 7

Editor's Notes

  • #22 Tell a student to take out of personal belonging: scarf, pencil, watch, etc on the central table. Repeat with one or two students, then call on others to do the same.2) Tell owner(s) to go out of classroom. Tell remaining student(s) to hide the items. Then tell these students to stand front of room to tell which item to take and exactly where hide. Make sure students use their non-dominant hand to show a reference point when giving locations.3) Call the owners to come. Tell them that class have hidden their items. Tell owner(s) to ask the students where they can find items.
  • #38 Give out the cards (p.203). And ask students to act it out. Ask the other students to explain what they see, use inflecting verbs and role shifting.
  • #60 Same/Different:ME WANT #CAKE ME WANT #COKEMY NAME #JAN MY NAME #JON#JOHN #JON#IAN #JAN#JEAN #JAN#DUFFY #BUFFY#JOE #JOSE#ICE #RICEMONTHS:NOW+MONTH “what”. #NOV.TWO_MONTH+PAST “what”. #SEPTFUTURE+MONTH “what”. #DEC
  • #61 - Offering assistance: same page. Introduce signs for accept offer: YES, THANK YOU++, YES, PLEASE, and FINE++And for decline offer: “wave-no” MYSELF++, and “wave-no” ME ALMOST FINISH- Checking If Done: FINISH, NOT+FINISH, and NOT-YETMove out of a houseEat lunchBuy candyWrite a paper (offer babysit while she/he finishes)Paint the livingroom