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'Walk or walk', this is you walking, this is somebody else walking, 'walk or walk'. 'Run,
run', you have two L-shaped hands with the dominant in front pulling forward
run and you can run this way, that way, or run around,
'run'. 'Eat-food, eat-food'. When you're eating, it goes in and food goes twice 'eat-food'.
"Drink, drink', it's like you're holding the cup and drinking it, 'drink'. 'Cook,
cook', it's just like you're flipping something when you're cooking it 'cook'. 'Write,
write', you're using your dominant hand to write on your non-dominant 'write'. 'Draw, draw', your
pinky finger is like a pencil drawing on a piece of paper 'draw'. 'To read, to read', this is the
page that you're reading and your dominant hand is the eyes reading down the pages to 'read'. 'Sing,
sing', your dominant hand is moving back and forth along your non-dominant 'sing'. 'Talk or talk',
this is for hearing people talking because we talk from our mouths and this is for talking
in sign language like to chat 'talk, talk'. 'To ride on', something like a bike or a motorcycle.
You can show here is the bike or the motorcycle and then this is you sitting on it and you can
move, and weave through the road, or going up and down the hills 'to ride on' something.
'To ride in, to ride in', this C-hand of your non-dominant hand is representing
a car, a train, something mobile that you're riding in. Your dominant hand is two legs sitting
in that vehicle moving forward 'to ride in'. 'Take a bath, take a bath',
you're just scrubbing your body down like you're taking a bath 'take a bath'.
'Cry, cry' your index fingers are making the tears coming down your eyes and depending on
how hard you're crying you could cry or you could cry a lot 'cry'. 'Laugh or laugh', this is showing
like a belly laugh going back and forth or L-hands at the side of your face to 'laugh laugh'. 'Play,
play, play', you're using Y-hands and they're bouncing around like they're playing
'play'. 'Clean, clean', think of dusting something off 'clean'. 'Think,
think', it's your index finger coming up to your forehead and you're showing a face like
hmm I'm thinking about this 'think'. 'Dance, dance', your non-dominant
hand is the floor and your dominant is the legs moving back and forth 'dance'.
'Listen' with your ears or 'listen'ing with your eyes this is showing how we listen with our ears
in talking but Deaf people listen with their eyes 'listen'. Now let's put these ASL signs
into sentences. It's time to finish playing and go and take a bath. 'You play finish bath go you'.
Do you want to read or draw? 'You want read draw which you'?
I need water after a run.'Me run finish water need me'.
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