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Unit 3 – HOW-OLD IX-you How old are you?
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- Overview
- Activity 3.1
- Activity 3.2
- Activity 3.3
- Activity 3.4
Achievement objectives
Curriculum link: levels 1 and 2 of The New Zealand Curriculum
In this unit, your students will learn the days of the week and practise using number combinations between one and 20, including using numbers to express age.
Learning outcomes
Students will:
- give information about age and phone/text numbers
- ask others their age and phone/text numbers
- sign and recognise the days of the week.
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
BIRTHDAY, DAY, FAR, HOW-OLD, LAST, NEXT, OLD, OLDER, PHONE, SOON, TEXT, TODAY, TOMORROW, TONIGHT, WEEK, WHEN, WHICH, YESTERDAY, YOUNGER
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY
Grammar
Wh-questions: HOW-OLD, WHEN, WHICH; non-manual signals; time signs for past, present, and future; age numbers
Sentence patterns
| How old are you? [Gloss: HOW OLD IX-you; Non-manual signal: whq] | I’m 13 years old. [Gloss: IX-me age-13 IX-me; Non-manual signal: nod] |
| How old is he? [Gloss: HOW-OLD IX-he; Non-manual signal: whq] | He is five years old. [Gloss: IX-he age-5 IX-he; Non-manual signal: nod] |
| When did she turn 15? [Gloss: IX-she age-15 WHEN; Non-manual signal: whq] | Today is Wednesday. |
| Today is Wednesday. | |
| TODAY WEDNESDAY YESTERDAY TUESDAY TOMORROW THURSDAY | When did she turn 15? [Gloss: IX-she age-15 WHEN; Non-manual signal: whq] |
| When is your birthday? [Gloss: IX-you BIRTHDAY WHEN; Non-manual signal: whq] | My birthday is very soon. IX-me BIRTHDAY SOON |
| My sister’s birthday is tomorrow. [Gloss: TOMORROW; Non-manual signal: t] MY SISTER BIRTHDAY | My birthday was last Monday. [Gloss: LAST MONDAY; Non-manual signal: t] IX-me BIRTHDAY |
| When is your father’s birthday? [Gloss: IX-you FATHER BIRTHDAY WHEN; Non-manual signal: whq] | Is your best friend older or younger than you? [Gloss: IX-you BEST FRIEND OLDER YOUNGER, WHICH; Non-manual signal: whq] |
| Younger. [Gloss: YOUNGER; Non-manual signal: nod] | What’s your text number? [Gloss: IX-you TEXT NUMBER WHAT; Non-manual signal: whq] |
| My text number is 028 555 181. [Gloss: IX-me TEXT NUMBER; Non-manual signal: t] 028 555 181 |
Video clips
Clip 0.5: The concepts Grammar
Clip 0.7: Non-manual signals, question forms Grammar
Clip 3.1a: When, where, older, younger Vocabulary
Clip 3.1b: Ages Vocabulary
Clip 3.1c: Days of the Week Vocabulary
Clip 3.2: Birthdays and age Sentence patterns
Activities
Activity 3.1 Communicating about age
Activity 3.2 Signing the days of the week
Activity 3.3 Communicating about age and phone/text numbers
Activity 3.4 Assessing progress
Support material
Worksheet 3.1 Vocabulary (related to when, where, birthday, other)
Worksheet 3.2 The days of the week
Checksheet 3.2 The days of the week