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| To the Student | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Sign Models | |
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| Introductions and Personal Information | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Grammar: Information questions | |
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| Culture: Using first and last name in introductions | |
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| Personal Information | |
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| Grammar: Yes/No questions | |
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| Grammar: Simple affirmative sentences with head nodding | |
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| Grammar: Simple negative sentences with head shaking | |
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| Culture: Deaf, Deaf people's term for themselves | |
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| More Personal Information | |
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| Grammar: Repeating pronouns | |
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| Culture: Difference between Where Live? and Where from? | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Learning ASL | |
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| Going to Class | |
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| Grammar: Answering yes/no questions by repeating the verb from the question | |
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| Grammar: There made in approximate direction of place even when not in sight and to show specific location; also Here | |
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| Objects in the Classroom | |
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| Grammar: Information questions: question sign before, after, or both before and after | |
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| Showing You Understand and Asking for Help | |
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| Note: Other ways to ask for help | |
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| Note: Use of Oh-I-See | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Politeness | |
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| Asking Politely | |
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| Grammar: Verbs that change movement to show location: Go/Come, Bring/Carry, etc. | |
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| Thanks | |
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| Grammar: Verbs that change movement to indicate subject and object: Give, Help, Tell, etc. | |
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| Interruptions and Apologies | |
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| Culture: Saying Excuse-Me when walking between two people | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Descriptions | |
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| Physical Appearance | |
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| Grammar: Look^Like? questions | |
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| Grammar: Adjectives used to describe hair | |
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| Grammar: Adjectives used to describe height and weight | |
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| Clothing | |
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| Grammar: Descriptive adjectives before and after nouns | |
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| Grammar: Altering signs to show detail such as direction of stripes, etc. | |
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| Personality and Character | |
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| Grammar: Topicalizing subjects and objects | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Requests | |
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| Polite Commands | |
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| Culture: Flashing lights to get attention and other ways to get attention | |
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| Grammar: Verb pairs: Requests Open/Close-Door, etc. | |
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| Grammar: Noun-verb pairs | |
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| Requests to Do Something | |
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| Note: Use of Don't Mind | |
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| Note: Use of for Me | |
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| More Requests | |
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| Note: Verb pairs involving turning things on and off | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Expressing Yourself | |
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| How You Feel | |
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| Note: Form of All-Day, All-Night, etc. | |
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| Opinions and Preferences | |
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| Note: Use of Wow! | |
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| Grammar: Negative incorporation: Don't-Like, Don't-Know, Don't Want | |
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| Grammar: Other negative forms: Not Surprised I, Not Satisfied I, etc | |
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| Anxiety | |
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| Grammar: Use of modals: Must, Should, Can Will | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| More Descriptions | |
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| Objects and Their Location | |
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| Grammar: Classifier predicates showing size and shape | |
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| Grammar: Classifier predicates showing instrument to indicate movement | |
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| Objects, Number, and Location | |
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| Grammar: Classifier predicates to indicate locational relationships | |
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| How Many | |
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| Grammar: Plurals using quantifiers: Many, Some, Several, A-Few | |
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| Grammar: Plurals using numbers | |
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| Grammar: Minute, Hour, Day, etc. incorporating numbers | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Family and Friends | |
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| Family Information | |
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| Culture: Asking and giving information about a person's family background | |
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| Culture: Establishing whether hearing members of a family sign or not | |
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| Family Relationships | |
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| Grammar: Past, present, and future tenses using time signs | |
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| Grammar: Personal pronouns incorporating number | |
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| Friends and Acquaintances | |
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| Note: Use of Finish | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| More Descriptions | |
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| How Others Look | |
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| Note: Whispering in sign | |
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| Grammar: Use of numbers to show age, time, count | |
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| Note: Humorous variation on CL:55 | |
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| Personality | |
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| Grammar: Contraction of Know and That: Know^That | |
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| Culture: Schools for the Deaf | |
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| Physical Features | |
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| Grammar: Variation on CL:B | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| At Home and Daily Living | |
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| Your Residence | |
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| Grammar: More verbs that change movement to show subject and object: Borrow, Take, Summon, Choose | |
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| Grammar: Classifiers representing category and with movement | |
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| Objects in Your Residence | |
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| Grammar: More classifiers showing size and shape and outline: CL:C[two right arrows], CL:B, CL:11 | |
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| What You Do Every Day | |
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| Grammar: Form of Every-Morning, Every-Night, etc. | |
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| Note: Signs derived from fingerspelling | |
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| Grammar: Form of Every-Saturday, Every-Tuesday, etc. | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Food and Food Shopping | |
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| The Menu | |
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| Note: Use of Run-Out and Deplete (for containers) | |
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| Grammar: Negatives of modals: Can't and Won't | |
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| Grammar: Use of None to show no quantity and as a negative: See^None, Hear^None, Understand^None | |
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| Quantities | |
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| Note: Fingerspelled abbreviations: L-B, O-Z, D-O-Z, T-S-P | |
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| Grammar: Classifiers CL:G and CL:BB to show thickness, width, and depth | |
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| Prices | |
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| Grammar: 1-Dollar incorporating numbers 2 to 10 | |
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| Note: Use of Blank with dollar amount | |
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| Grammar: 1-Cent incorporating numbers | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Offering and Declining | |
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| Food and Drink | |
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| Grammar: Non-inflecting form of Help | |
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| Offering Help | |
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| Culture: TTYs, pagers, and email | |
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| Note: Use of Breakdown, Shutdown, Wear-Out, Break | |
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| Declining and Explaining | |
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| Grammar: Structures for declining | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| More Ways to Express Yourself | |
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| Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction | |
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| Note: Ways to express satisfaction | |
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| Agreement and Disagreement | |
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| Grammar: Conditional sentences | |
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| Concern and Feelings | |
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| Note: Asking about someone: All-Right?, etc. | |
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| Note: Use of Gone and Die | |
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| Grammar: Structures to express emotional or physical states | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Experiences and Current Activity | |
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| An Event | |
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| Grammar: Classifiers as quantifiers: CL:44, CL:55, etc. | |
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| Grammar: Finish as conjunction | |
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| A Past Event | |
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| Grammar: More conjunctions: Wrong, Happen, Find, Frustrated, Hit | |
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| Grammar: Number incorporation in Last-Year, Next-Year, etc. | |
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| Grammar: Structures for asking what happened: What's-Up?, etc. | |
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| Current Activity | |
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| Grammar: Structures for commenting on competence or expertise | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Future Plans and Obligations | |
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| General Future Plans | |
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| Note: Use of Nothing-to-It | |
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| Time and Place to Meet | |
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| Grammar: More verb pairs: Get-In/Get-Out, etc. | |
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| Future Obligations | |
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| Grammar: Structures for indicating an obligation: Appointment, Promise, Duty | |
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| Culture: Captioned video, TV, films | |
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| Culture: Deaf clubs | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Directions and Instructions | |
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| Directions | |
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| Note: Commonly used fingerspelled abbreviations: D-S and P-O | |
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| Grammar: Use of body to show change in direction | |
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| Descriptions of Places | |
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| Note: Use of apostrophe-S | |
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| Grammar: Use of Locale | |
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| Grammar: Location relationships using chaining of classifiers | |
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| Instructions | |
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| Grammar: Use of CL:CC** | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Suggestions and Advice | |
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| Suggestions | |
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| Note: Use of Bored | |
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| Culture: Bowling leagues | |
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| Grammar: Forms of Every-Month, Every-Year | |
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| Time and Place | |
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| Note: Confirming head nods and head shakes | |
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| Note: Use of Approximately with time, age, and money | |
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| Advice | |
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| Grammar: Structure for giving advice preceded by Should, Better, Advise, Warn, Suggest, Maybe | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Attitudes and Opinions | |
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| What Others Think | |
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| Grammar: Verbs that change movement to indicate Two, Each, All | |
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| Opinions | |
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| Note: More ways to express opinions | |
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| Values | |
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| Note: Ways to express opposing values | |
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| Grammar: Quantifiers with count and non-count nouns | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Recreational Activities | |
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| Activities | |
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| Grammar: Repeatedly inflection of verbs, with facial adverbs | |
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| A Sequence of Activities | |
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| Grammar: Continually inflection of verbs, with facial adverbs | |
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| Note: Use of Chat, Sign-Talk, and Sign-Fluently | |
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| Seasonal Activities | |
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| Grammar: Plural forms by reduplication | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Travel--Places' and Experiences | |
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| Travel Experience | |
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| Grammar: Other verbs showing subject and object: Join and Say-Okay | |
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| Grammar: Repeatedly inflection of adjectives | |
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| More Travel Experience | |
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| Grammar: Continually inflection of adjectives | |
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| Places You Visited | |
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| Grammar: Very inflection of adjectives | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Occupations and Professions | |
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| Occupations and Professions | |
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| Grammar: Use of agent suffix for some professions | |
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| Grammar: Rhetorical questions | |
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| Job Activity | |
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| Note: Use of Understand to precede a qualification, condition, or stipulation | |
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| Work History | |
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| Note: Use of Get-Regularly | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| The Body, Health, and Emergencies | |
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| Physical Conditioning | |
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| Grammar: Use of body pronoun | |
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| Health and Health Problems | |
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| Note: Use of Pain | |
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| Emergencies | |
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| Culture: Deaf people's communicative strategies with non-signers | |
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| Grammar: Use of Never and Nothing as denials | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Current Events | |
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| Recent News | |
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| Grammar: Reduplication in different locations | |
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| Current Topics of Interest | |
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| Grammar: Clause as topic | |
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| Current Issues | |
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| Note: Use of Worse | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| How Things Are Done | |
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| A Process | |
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| Grammar: Classifier predicates showing manner of flow: CL:44[two right arrows] and CL:4[down arrow] | |
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| Width, Length, and Height | |
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| Grammar: Distance from one point to another using CL:1-TO-CL:1 | |
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| Measurements and Weight | |
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| Grammar: Questions about measurement: How-Much, etc. | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| English Translations of Dialogues | |
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| Vocabulary Index | |