Unit 15: Exchanging Personal Information: Life Events, Family History, Genetic History

DEAF-SCHOOL

GO-UP-YEARS (Gallaudet)

“TRANSFER”

PRINCIPAL

PROMOTED

MOVE-AWAY

fs-KILLED

RETIRED

SETTLE DOWN

WHEN Clauses and Other Transitions

WHEN Clauses:

• A type of time sign transition.

• Indicates/suggests “when” something happened.

• Nonmanuals are the same as time sign and other transitions: Brow raise at the time sign clause, pause, neutral brow at the conjoining clause.

• Clause that indicates when (with brows raised and slight head tilt), pause, explanation of what happened “when” with neutral brows).

Tell About Life Events: Using “When” Clauses

• By referring to age

  • Ex: (When) I was 8, I got a dog.

• By referring to other events.

  • Ex: (When/After) I graduated college, I got a job offer.

  • Use a time sign marker to indicate lapsed time(s).

  • Transitions included in referring to other events

    • Time sign transitions:

      • Specific time passed: Years, months, other lengths of time.

      • Unspecific time passed: short, medium, long amount of time (note non-manuals!)

        • Ex:

          • 6 months later, I was offered a job.

          • A short while after, I was offered a job.

      • Modify your examples/sentences (from the last activity) to use unspecified (not number) time sign transitions.

• By year

  • Include a sequential event by referring to a specific (or unspecific) time frame after the initial event. Use NMMs, where appropriate).

  • Ex: 1976, I was born.

• By sequencing events.

  • Notice non-manual markers!

  • Sequences of events that lead up to a particular event.

  • Ex: What steps must you take before you get a driver’s license?

• By unexpected changes

  • Use the sequencing technique and the “WRONG/UNEXPECTED” sign and the corresponding appropriate facial expression, pause/head nod when indicating th unexpected change/event.

Numbers: 101-119 (review 100+)

Countries and Traditions

Indicate—geographically, using referents or saying NEAR—where this country is in location to neighboring countries/continents.

• Use the following format:

  • Introduce the tradition with a brief rdescription

    • PEOPLE TEND TO…

  • Say from where (RH-Q), including geogrphic location/referents

Grammatical Features in Family Narratives

• Contrastive Structure

• Referents

• As they relate to families

• Possessive options: ‘s with named 3^rd person only.

Genetics: Heredity and Genetic Traits Vocab

GENE

DOMINANT

RECESSIVE

INHERIT/PASS DOWN

CARRY

GENERATION

MUTATION

STRONG

LITTLE BIT

½ - ½ 

#PERCENT CHANCE

TIP-SCALES

GENE RELATED-TO SEX

GENE NOT-RELATED TO SEX (autosomal)

Why People Migrate: Key Verbs

Plural Classifier (PCL): MIGRATE (location)

Plural Classifier (PCL): SICK-SPREAD (pandemic)

FLEE / ESCAPE

MOVE-AWAY

FORCE; MUST

OPPRESS

PERSECUTE / PICK-ON

PERMIT / NOT-PERMIT

KILL++; DIE++

WAR

FAMINE / HUNGER

DRAFT

ECONOMY

GREAT DEPRESSION (Business Down)

Immigrate: People coming in. | Emigrate: People moving out. | Migration: Movement (usually in masses) of people or animals from one place to another.

Descriptive Classifier (DCL): Used to describe a shape, a size, a texture, or a pattern.

Locative Classifier (LCL): Used to indicate a location of something, or the position relative to another. It is also used as a pathline of the object and its movement and/or distance.

Plural Classifier: A plural symbol of a noun or object.

Ex: CL- open-hand, horizontal, palm down for “many birds flying in the sky.”

Dates and Addresses

• 3-digit numbers

  • Palm facing out

  • 1, 2 (thumb, index & middle finger together)

• 4-digit numbers

  • Palm facing out

  • 2, 2 (index & middle finger together, ring finger & pinky together)

• 5-digit numbers

  • Palm facing out

  • 1, 1, 1, 2 (ring finger & pinky together)

• Zip codes

  • Sign Zip

  • 5-digit number

    • Palm facing out

    • 1, 1, 1, 2 (ring finger & pinky together)

TORNADO

FIRE

HURRICANE

VOLCANO

FLOOD

TSUNAMI

GOLD RUSH

BUSINESS

SLAVERY

RELIGION

DIVORCE

RECEIVE JOB OFFER

GRADUATE

FALL-IN-LOVE

REBEL / STRIKE / PROTEST / DEFIANT

CONQUER

JAILED / IMPRISONED