3.1 Telling Where One Lives

3.1 Telling Where One Lives

Objective:

• I will be able to sign where I live using new signs from this presentation.

Tell Where

LIVE HERE

Make an A with both hands, then slide them up the front of your body.

Make flat handshapes and move them in circular motions.

IX-loc

"IX" stands for "INDEXING" or "POINTING."

"loc" is short for "location."

When you put the two together, you are pointing in the direction/location of what is being signed.

NEAR

Make flat handshape and tap your dominant hand to the back of your nondominant hand

CITY

Closed/Flat handshape. Touch the tips of your middle fingers together then twist your hands back and forth.

DAYTON

Make a D handshape. Place it on the nondominant side of your chin then slide it around the bottom of your chin to the opposite side.

MONT BELVIEU

Make an S with your non dominant hand, then with your dominant hand tap an M & B on it.

CROSBY

Make an S with your non dominant hand, then with your dominant hand make a C and slide it over your non dominant hand into a Y

BAYTOWN

Make a B with your dominant hand and act as if you are wafting air up toward your nose.

HOUSTON

Make a U handshape with your dominant hand then tap the side of your mouth. Palm faces out.

BEAUMONT

Make a B with your dominant hand then tap your cheek with your palm facing in.

GALVESTON

Make a G on your chin with your dominant hand then move your hand in a circle going down first.

SAN ANTONIO

Make a G next to your mustache area with your dominant hand then tap.

LUMBERTON

Make an S with your non dominant hand, then using your dominant hand place an L on top. Move in a sawing motion.

AUSTIN

Make an A with your dominant hand, then move in a 7 motion starting on your non dominant side.

EL PASO

Make an O with your non dominant hand, then with your dominant hand move an L back and forth past it.

Areas of the City

Downtown

Using flat handshapes, touch the tips of your middle fingers together then bend all of your fingers downward 2 times.

Ocean

Make a W on the side of your mouth with your dominant hand then a 5 handshape and move it in a circle.

Lake

Make a W on the side of your mouth with your dominant hand then bent L's with both hands showing the lake

River

Make a W on the side of your mouth with your dominant hand then with both hands make a flat handshape and move them to show the shape of the river.

Beach

Make a flat handshape with your nondominant hand, then with your dominant hand make a 5. Move your dominant hand in front of your non dominant hand while wiggling your fingers.

Park

Fingerspell P-A-R-K

Hills

Fingerspell H-I-L-L or use a flat handshape to show the shape of the hills

Mountain

Make an A with both hands. Tap your dominant hand on top of your nondominant hand, then shoot both hands upward into a flat handshape toward your dominant side.

Shopping Mall

Make a flat handshape (palm up) with your nondominant hand, then with your dominant hand swipe an upside down flat O forward mulitple times. Then fingerspell M-A-L-L

Deaf-School

Compass Points

North

Make an N with your dominant hand and push it upwards.

South

Make an S with your dominant hand and pull it downward

East

Make an E with your dominant hand and push it to the right.

West

Make a W with your dominant hand and push it to your left.

Practice

Open Ended

Fill in the blank with one of the cities you have learned from these slides. Practice signing the sentence.

I LIVE ______.

Open Ended

Rewrite the dialogue and fill in the blanks. Practice signing it when you are finished.

I LIVE ______.

I LIVE NEAR ______. (pick an identifying marker such as RIVER, DEAF-SCHOOL, PARK)

Practice signing this dialogue

• YOU LIVE WHERE?

• I LIVE ______ (pick a town)

• AREA WHAT?

• I LIVE NEAR _______(pick an identifying marker such as RIVER, DEAF-SCHOOL, PARK)

Homework

Create a compound sentence using three or more of the new signs learned today. You may use other signs learned this year to complete your sentence. Video yourself signing your sentence using screencastify submit.