Hey signers, today you're going to learn how to follow directions in ASL. This is
actually an excerpt from day two of our ASL 101 intensive. First, I'm reviewing directional
verbs with the class before doing a voice off exercise on following directions. Guess what?
You get to participate too. You'll need a few objects handy which are mentioned in the video,
but I'll also list them below. I'm excited for you to get to see a little bit of what it's like to
be a part of our intensive, so let's get straight to it and learn how to sign following directions.
foreign
Hello everybody, how are we doing? Great! Oh, I'm so happy you guys are back and ready to learn.
We are excited! So let's move on and let's get into it. Are we ready? Yes...awesome, way to go,
I see all those like ready hands. Okay, so let's warm up our hands really, really fast okay.
Sometimes you just need to warm them up, sometimes you need to stretch them out, opening and shutting
them. You find what is best for you okay. I see some people like doing like squeeze balls, some
of them are stretching their wrists. Yes, warming up is very important, so be sure to do that.
Um, my hands are really warmed up from the last class, but if you feel like you need to during
this time while I'm teaching just really stretch them out, things like that that's very important
for your hand safety as well, okay...and then we also talked about directional verbs, correct? The move.
We have the sign move, but if we have something
moving it. What if we have something in our hand to give, but then we can receive, or then
we can give to everybody else, give to somebody next to us, give to somebody over here, so this
this sign to give, this sign to move, this sign to help. We move it and incorporate it in that
is what we are helping, what we are moving, how we are moving it, how we are um... let's say
for instance, we have a phone, okay and my phone is right here and I want it to move over here.
We have to know the direction that we're going to move it okay? Do we
kind of understand the idea of directional? And there are so many for instance, if we're flying,
you can fly different ways. We can also talk about this. Do you guys remember that classifier 'V', where
we can walk, somebody can walk places, and walk and walk and walk and walk around. Somebody can
sit down, stand up. They could dance, but we can make this classifier 'V'
this person that we're having move around but if we attach to our eye,
we can move it to what we are seeing. I think ASL is so incredibly cool, l because we can take like
what could be a really, really, really long sentence in English and just like take a few signs
and just change it a little bit, moving something around, looking at something, walking around.
It can using that movement is so incredibly important and a beautiful way that ASL uses
um, direction. So, with that I want us to try and do following instructions with some of
the signs that we learned from our vocabulary this past week. So, what I need you all to get
you need a cup, a book, a pencil or a pen,
and paper and a phone or a device of some sort that is like a phone. So I want you
to get a cup, a book, a pencil, a phone, and a paper and come back and we have a fun
instruction following direction activity. Okay, go.
So, while I'm doing this you guys are going to see me sign an object,
okay, or sign something that you've seen before and then I'm going to tell you
guys, give instructions on what to do, but I'm not going to do with my voice.
I'm gonna be doing it voice off, so you follow what I tell you guys to do, okay? Ready?
(Voice off)
Thank you
foreign
Okay, now my voice is back on.
Did we feel a little silly? But what I want you guys to know is look at what you just were able
to do, okay. There were a handful of signs that you knew, but you followed instructions because
of my body language, my facial expression, and what you could see you could gather that and that is a
huge step in like learning ASL is understanding we don't have to think word, word, word, word, word, word.
We have to think concepts. All right, following what the whole idea is and so I think that that's just
a beautiful explanation of really what ASL is. It's just like it's a whole...I wouldn't say acting but
sometimes it feels like that. I hope you had as much fun with that as we did this summer.
If you were part of the Summer Intensive, let us know down in the comments. Share what you enjoyed
most about it. Our next intensive is right around the corner. For more details, click the link in the
description. I hope that you're able to join us and until next time keep learning how to sign 🤟🏼