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Unit 15 – CLOTHES FLASH Flash clothes
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Achievement objectives
Curriculum link: levels 1 and 2 of The New Zealand Curriculum
In this unit, your students will identify, describe, and ask about people and their clothes.
Learning outcomes
Students will:
- ask about and describe people
- ask about and describe clothes.
Success criteria
The assessment criteria are based on the curriculum achievement objectives for learning languages at levels 1 and 2. These criteria measure the students’ ability to communicate in NZSL.
Language knowledge
Vocabulary
BALD, BEARD, BOOTS, BOY, CLOTHES, CURLY-HAIR, DRESS, EYE, FLASH, GIRL, GLASSES, HAIR, HAT, JACKET, JEANS, JUMPER, LONG-HAIR, LOOK+SAME, MAN, MOUSTACHE, NEW, SHIRT, SHOES, SHORT-HAIR, SKIRT, STRAIGHT-HAIR, TALL, T-SHIRT, TROUSERS, WEAR, WOMAN
Grammar
Wh-questions; descriptive classifiers
Sentence patterns
| Who is the boy with curly hair? [Gloss: BOY CURLY-HAIR; Non-manual signal: t][Gloss: IX-he WHO; Non-manual signal: whq] | It's Joe. He has curly hair. IX-he fs-JOE, IX-he HAVE CURLY-HAIR IX-he |
| Who is that lady with white hair and glasses? [Gloss: WOMAN WHITE HAIR; Non-manual signal: t], GLASSES IX-she [Gloss: WHO; Non-manual signal: whq] | She's my teacher. IX-she MY TEACHER |
| Where is the bald man with the moustache? [Gloss: MAN BALD, MOUSTACHE; Non-manual signal: t][Gloss: WHERE; Non-manual signal: whq] | |
| What colour is your dress? [Gloss: YOUR DRESS IX-it COLOUR WHAT; Non-manual signal: whq] | My dress is red and white. IX-it RED WHITE (Note that the IX pronoun must be in the same location as in question.) |
| What does your dress look like? [Gloss: DRESS IX-it LOOK+SAME WHAT; Non-manual signal: whq] | |
| Look at the black dress. It's beautiful! [Gloss: LOOK-AT BLACK DRESS; Non-manual signal: t][Gloss: IX-it BEAUTIFUL; Non-manual signal: nod] | I want that white jacket. [Gloss: WHITE JACKET; Non-manual signal: t][Gloss: IX-me WANT IX-it; Non-manual signal: nod] |
| Nice clothes! CLOTHES NICE |
Video clips
Clip 15.1a: Features (hair type, eyes, other) Vocabulary
Clip 15.1b: Clothing Vocabulary
Clip 15.2a: Who is that person with the ... ? Sentence patterns
Clip 15.2b: What does your dress look like? Sentence patterns
Clip 8.1b: Colours Vocabulary
Activities
Activity 15.1 Learning vocabulary and aspects of Deaf culture
Activity 15.2 Describing people and their clothes
Activity 15.3 What do they look like?
Activity 15.4 Assessing progress
Support material
Worksheet 15.1 Describing people
Worksheet 15.2 Describing clothes
Worksheet 15.3 Flashcard template