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Unit 1 – HELLO Hello!

Achievement objectives

Curriculum link: levels 1 and 2 of The New Zealand Curriculum

In this unit, your students will learn about NZSL as a language, explore the differences between signed and spoken languages, learn to use the fingerspelling alphabet, and sign the numbers from one to ten.

Learning outcomes

Students will:

  • greet, farewell, and thank people and respond to others
  • fingerspell names
  • make use of visual prompts
  • sign the numbers from one to ten.

Success criteria

Two sets of assessment criteria are included. These criteria measure the students’ ability to communicate in NZSL.

The first set identifies a model that can be used to assess whether the specific learning outcomes have been achieved.

The second set is based on the curriculum achievement objectives for learning languages at levels 1 and 2. 

Language knowledge

Vocabulary

DEAF, GOOD, GOODBYE, HEARING, HELLO, HOW-ARE-YOU, LEARN, IX-me, MEET, NAME, NICE, NZSL, PRACTISE, SIGN, THANK-YOU, WHAT, IX-you

NUMBER, ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN

Grammar

  • Yes/no questions
  • wh-questions
  • personal pronouns
  • fingerspelling

Sentence patterns

Hello. How are you?

HELLO, HOW-ARE-YOUy/n q

I’m well, thank you.

IX-me GOOD THANK-YOUnod

Ask for name.

IX-you NAME WHATwhq

Give name.

IX-me NAME fs-JOE

Nice to meet you.

NICE MEET IX-you

It’s nice to meet you, too.

NICE MEET IX-younod

I’m learning NZSL.

IX-me LEARN SIGN/NZSL

 

Ask for information.

IX-you HEARINGy/n q

No, I am Deaf.

"wave no"neg IX-me DEAF

I am hearing.

IX-me HEARING

Goodbye!

GOODBYE

See you soon!

SEE-YOU SOON

See you later!

SEE-YOU LATER

Video clips

Clip 0.3: Dominant hand Grammar

Clip 0.7: Non-manual signals, questions form Grammar

Clip 1.1a: Basic greetings Vocabulary

Clip 1.1b: Numbers 1 to 10 Vocabulary

Clip 1.1c: Fingerspelling the alphabet Vocabulary

Clip 1.2: Introducing yourself Sentence patterns

Clip 1.3: Visual prompting in Deaf culture

Scene A – Ben comes to visit

Activities

Activity 1.1 Basic greetings in NZSL

Activity 1.2 Signing the numbers from one to ten

Activity 1.3 Learning the fingerspelling alphabet

Activity 1.4 Assessing progress

Support material

Worksheet 1.1 Vocabulary

Worksheet 1.2 The numbers from 1 to 10

Worksheet 1.3 The fingerspelling alphabet

Activity sheet 1.4 Assessing progress achievement checklist

Scene A transcript

"Thumbs Up!" Progress chart

NZSL guidelines 2006 (NZSLiNZC) levels 1 and 2 (page 52) 

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