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Unit 1 – HELLO Hello!
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- Overview
- Activity 1.1
- Activity 1.2
- Activity 1.3
- Activity 1.4
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, [Gloss: HOW-ARE-YOU; Non-manual signal: y/n q] | I’m well, thank you. [Gloss: IX-me GOOD THANK-YOU; Non-manual signal: nod] |
| Ask for name. [Gloss: IX-you NAME WHAT; Non-manual signal: whq] | Give name. IX-me NAME fs-JOE |
| Nice to meet you. NICE MEET IX-you | It’s nice to meet you, too. [Gloss: NICE MEET IX-you; Non-manual signal: nod] |
| I’m learning NZSL. IX-me LEARN SIGN/NZSL | |
| Ask for information. [Gloss: IX-you HEARING; Non-manual signal: y/n q] | No, I am Deaf. [Gloss: "wave no"; Non-manual signal: 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
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