ASL Tenses | Past, Present, Future

ASL Tenses | Past, Present, Future

Assessment

Interactive Video

World Languages

6th - 8th Grade

Hard

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Wayground Content

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This video tutorial teaches how to sign tenses in American Sign Language (ASL) using a body timeline concept. It covers past, present, and future tense signs, explaining how to position them relative to the body to indicate time. The tutorial also demonstrates how to incorporate numbers with time signs for specific time expressions. The video emphasizes the ASL sentence structure of time, topic, and comment, showing how to construct sentences with different tenses.

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In ASL, where are signs for the future typically positioned relative to the body?

To the right of the body

Behind the body

In front of the body

To the left of the body

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which hand shape is used to indicate something that 'just happened' in ASL?

L-shaped hand

A-shaped hand

X-shaped hand

Five hand

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How is the concept of 'yesterday' signed in ASL?

Five hand moving in a circle

X-shaped hand moving forward

A-shaped hand moving from chin to jaw

L-shaped hand flicking forward

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the structure of an ASL sentence?

Time, topic, comment

Topic, comment, time

Subject, verb, object

Object, subject, verb

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In ASL, if no time is indicated in a sentence, what tense is assumed?

Past tense

Present tense

Conditional tense

Future tense

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which hand shape is used to sign 'today' in ASL?

Y-shaped hands flipped upside down

Five hand

A-shaped hand

X-shaped hand

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How is the sign for 'week' performed in ASL?

Moving an X-shaped hand forward

Flicking forward with an L hand

Circular motion with a five hand

Drawing a line across a calendar

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