A Basic Course in American Sign Language Full Class: Week 15

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American Sign Language 2: Week Six

Lesson 19 Vocabulary

• Back

• Blood

• Cause

• Danger, dangerous, threat

• Dismiss, lay off, pardon, excuse

• Downstairs

• Each, every

• Either

• Front

• Goal, aim, objective, point

• Guess, assume, estimate

• Habit, custom, used to

• History

• Imagine

• Include

• #JOB

• Judge, court

• Land

• Look for, search, hunt

• Mischievous

• Ocean

• Outdoors, outside

• Praise (person), commend, applaud

• Prevent, block

• Prove, proof, evidence, fact

• River

• Rough

• Run out of, deplete

• Silly, ridiculous

• Suppose, if

• Suppress, restrain

• Swallow

• Temperature

• Tough

• Turn down, reject

• Upstairs

• Weigh, weight, pound

Chapter Nineteen

• Adjective Modulation: Very
• Some adverbs are formed by changing the movement of the adjective. The movement added to adjectives to mean “very” has the following form:
• A hold which appears “tense”
• A quick release

Chapter Nineteen: Examples

• BUILDING IT OLD.
• The building is extremely old.
• WINTER THERE M-I-N-N COLD.
• Minnesota winters are really cold.
• YOUR LECTURE CLEAR.
• Your lecture was incredibly clear.
• BASKETBALL PLAYER HE TALL.
• That basketball player is very tall.

Chapter Nineteen: Adjective Modulation: Repeatedly

• The movement can be repeated to show repeatedly. It is used with adjectives which describe a condition which starts, stops, and then starts again.

Chapter Nineteen: Adjective Modulation: Repeatedly

• ANGRY/MAD
• SICK
• AFRAID
• HURT
• EMBARRASSED
• WORRY

Chapter Nineteen: Adjective Modulation: Repeatedly

• LATE
• FRUSTRATED
• GUILTY
• DIFFERENT
• WRONG
• CARELESS

Review

• Fingerspelling

• Receptive

• Expressive

• Numbers

• Receptive

• Expressive