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A1 LEVEL / UNIT 1
Meeting People / Basic Words & Common Phrases Before starting the training, you can review the unit plan in PDF format by clicking the picture on the side.
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1.1. Words/Phrases to introduce yourself and meet people
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1.2. Grammar / Basic Sentences and common phrases
BSL Grammar rules Many countries use Sign Language and each country has its own form. In Britain, it is called BSL (British Sign Language). BSL is independent of the spoken English language and follows its own path of development. It also has its own grammatical structure and syntax English Grammar and grammar of the British Sign Language are different. It is important to explain and understand these differences in order to learn BSL. BSL actually uses a grammatical structure commonly described as a Topic Comment Structure. This means that the topic is stated first and then a comment about that topic is stated and explained afterwards - similar to a lot of other spoken languages. BSL differs in structure from English. English is normally subject-verb-object. In BSL it’s topic-comment. The easiest way to see how this works is by translating a sentence to BSL. English BSL What is your name ? name what ? Why are you learning BSL learn BSL why? Where do you live? live where? How did you get here? arrive how? |
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1.3. Hand Alphabet
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ACTIVITY 1
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1.4. Deaf Culture / Sign Language Name
Name signs are an important part of Deaf” culture, a term used by some deaf people to indicate that they embrace deafness as a cultural identity. The signs consist of gestures that can reflect parts of an individual’s personality, physical features or background. |
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1.5. Deaf Culture / Pointing by Hands
Deaf people often resort to this method in the use of Pronouns. There is a grammatical function for a deaf person to point at someone by hand. This is part of their Deaf culture. Hearing people showing hands in public are taught “it’s not polite to point!” and is classed as rude behaviour. Take this example: The man is walking over the bridge – English Bridge man walk - BSL British Sign Language grammar BSL evolved naturally as all languages do. It uses both manual and non-manual components – handshapes and movements, facial expression, and shoulder movement. BSL is structured in a completely different way to English and like any language it has its own grammar |
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1.6. Vocabulary / Common words
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ACTIVITY 2
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ACTIVTY 3
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