Complaining, Making Suggestions and Requests

1. Complaining, Making Suggestions and Requests Unit 12 Based on Signing Naturally Level 2, Unit 14 Unit 12

2. Unit 12Major Goals • Complain about and respond to ailments & illness, people, and pets • Make and respond to suggestions and requests • Use recurring and continuous time inflections • Use conditional sentences • Use role-shifting and characterization in narratives Unit 12

3. Ailments & Illnesses Unit 12

4. Pain Unit 12

5. Cramps Unit 12

6. Cough Unit 12

7. Have-a-cold Unit 12

8. Sore-throat Unit 12

9. Itching, itchyShow scratching on itchy area of the body Unit 12

10. Feel-tired Unit 12

11. Don’t feel good Unit 12

12. Fever / temperature Unit 12

13. Swollen(use CL over swollen area, or describe area first) Unit 12

14. Toss-and-turn - “didn’t sleep well” Unit 12

15. Have-an-upset-stomach, nausea Unit 12

16. Vomit Unit 12

17. Feel-dizzy Unit 12

18. Diarrhea Unit 12

19. RednessShow where redness on red part of body Unit 12

20. Rash Describe dots on area of body that has the rash Unit 12

21. Feel-sore Unit 12

22. Feel-lousy Unit 12

23. Concern Unit 12

24. “What’s wrong?” “Are you ok?” “Are you alright?” Unit 12

25. Sign at least six different sentences telling about an illness using the format below. Describe illness (use chart on right) … Person Me (name) Brother Aunt Mom Cousin My friend … Time Yesterday Last month Saturday Last year Last week … Unit 12

26. Empathy / Sympathy Unit 12

27. “No way, really? Oh, that’s too bad” Unit 12

28. Awful! Unit 12

29. “Wow, too bad.” Unit 12

30. “Oh, I know…” Unit 12

31. Suggestions(offer advice) Unit 12

32. Finish – “did you already try…?” Unit 12

33. Why + not - “Why not try…?” Unit 12

34. Need – “You should…” Unit 12

35. Remedies Unit 12

36. Medicine Unit 12

37. Take-pill Unit 12

38. Spoon-in-medicine Unit 12

39. Medicine dropper Unit 12

40. Rub-on-lotion Unit 12

41. Lie-down, rest Unit 12

42. Go see doctor Unit 12

43. “Making Suggestions About Health” Dialogue Format • Dialogue format – • Signer A: Express concern • Signer B: Complain about present condition • Signer A: Show empathy, make suggestion • Signer B: Respond Unit 12

44. “Fast Forward…”A game for modifying signs • Everyone stands in a circle • Each person thinks of one sign they like, then take turns signing it. • Now change the sign in the following ways: • Sign it big • Sign it fast • Sign it slow • Sign it low • Sign it high • Sign it small • Repeat it many times • Sign it backwards • Sign it privately • Sign it cheerfully • Sign it sadly • Sign it crazy • Sign it surprised • Sign it angrily • Sign it emphatically • Sign it doubtfully Unit 12

45. Recurring and Continuous Inflections An inflection is a change or modification in the way a sign is moved. When signing about illnesses, symptoms can happen repeatedly or continuously. Use a time sign and modify the movement of a sign for an illness or a symptom to explain how it has affected someone. Use NMS to show intensity or severity. recurring continuous Unit 12

46. Examples of Recurring/Continuous Inflections #1 uninflected recurring continuous Unit 12

47. Examples of Recurring/Continuous Inflections #2 Unit 12

48. Examples of Recurring/Continuous Inflections #3 Unit 12

49. Always use NMS with inflections! Unit 12

50. Time signs: recurring Unit 12