How much is it?
The students will ask about and will express costs.
Practise sentence patterns
Play Clip 16.2b: How much does this cost? and have the students practise the patterns along with the presenters.
Give the students copies of the sentence patterns from the Unit 16 overview to add to their resource base.
Play Scene P – What a bargain!. In signing, you can emphasise dollar amounts to indicate scale and intensity.
Ask them whether they noticed how Ella signed the dollar amount when she said:
Forty dollars for two! Cheap! TWO 40 DOLLAR, CHEAP
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The sign YOU-all includes more than two persons. The index handshape sweeps in a closed circling motion or in an outwards arc to include the intended persons.
Expressing costs in the context
To help your students to see more of how NZSL is used in the context of shopping, play Scene K – Food to go. This is the scene in which the group is in a fruit shop buying food for a picnic. Again, help your students to observe how feelings are expressed around costs.
For example, ask them to note how Charles indicates his sense of relief when he says:
Three dollars. That's cheap! I can afford that! 3 DOLLAR CHEAP, [Gloss: IX-me AFFORD; Non-manual signal: nod]
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Role-play a scene
Project the Scene K transcript or the Scene P transcript on a screen or hand out copies. As the students view the scenes, they can verify for themselves what is being communicated and identify the features you have asked them to notice.
Have the students practise role-playing one or both scenes. Play the scenes many times to ensure that they have a good model to follow as they develop their fluency in role-playing these situations.