Category: Goals

Whether we’re needing the tell the time or clock watching our way through the day, using numbers to help tell the time can come in useful. If you need to, click here to go back to the number post to refresh your memory on signing numbers.

Like in the last post with signing money, you need to make sure you are using the number signs in the right context to ensure the other person knows your signing the time. In this context, the numbers are signed with a twist of the hand.

Please note: the number 5 is an upright hand and number 10 is a horizontal hand.

Telling the Time

1. Time
2. 1-12 o’clock

Time 2

1. Quarter past 1
2. Half 2
3. Quarter to 3
4. 25 past 5

Question and Answer

1. Time what? Time what 7 o’clock

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In the previous post on food and drink, the signs were showing the vocabulary for some food and drinks that are available. The main part of this post is to show these used in sentences when asking if you are thirsty or hungry and if you like or dislike certain foods.

To begin with, the first video is one more vocabulary sign video, showing describing words that can be used in a sentence with food and drink.

Describing Vocabulary:

1. Favourite
2. Like
3. Don’t Like
4. Full Up
5. Hungry
6. Thirsty

Hungry Question

1. You Hungry? Me, hungry yes.
2. You like eat what? I like cheese sandwiches, please.

Thirsty Question

1. You thirsty? I’m thirsty.
2. You like drink what? I like coffee, please.

Like and Don’t Like

1. I don’t like orange juice
2. I like fish

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In this post, I am showing the food and drink signs I’ve learnt; splitting them into several videos. Like most categories, there are a number of food and drink signs that can be learnt. I haven’t learnt them all in this introductory course but I have learnt some of the main items.

Meal Times: 

1. Breakfast
2. Lunch
3. Dinner

Food: 

A and B:

1. Apple
2. Bacon
3. Banana
4. Bread
5. Biscuit

C and E:

1. Cake
2. Cheese
3. Chocolate
4. Crisps
5. Egg

F, K and M:

1. Fish
2. Fish and Chips
3. Food
4. Ketchup
5. Meat

P, S and V:

1. Pizza
2. Sandwiches
3. Sausages
4. Soup
5. Vegetables

Drinks: 

1. Coffee
2. Drink
3. Lemonade
4. Milk
5. Orange Juice
6. Tea
7. Water

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There you have it; signs for some of the foods and drinks that are out there. In the next post, I will be showing videos of these food and drink signs put into a sentence.

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With the number of spare time activities out there, I could learn them all and make as many videos to cover them but I’m not right now. If I learnt them all I would be very proud of myself. The previous post showed the signs for the spare time signs that I did learn during my introduction course.

For this post, I am using those I have learnt to put them together into sentences to show whether I love, like or dislike the activity. I’ve done a few for each category to show how these can be signed.

Love:

1. I love writing
2. I love reading
3. I love meeting my friends

Like: 

1. I like the cinema
2. I like dancing
3. I like sign language

Dislike:

1. I don’t like running
2. I don’t like cricket
3. I don’t like video games

Some of my own loves, likes and dislikes shown in the videos. What are yours?

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There’s a number of spare time activities to learn, more then I have learnt in this series. Many of them, however, have obvious body movements. Be careful when watching, as a couple of signs have similar actions, for example, Cricket and Hockey. Think about the small differences; how the bat or stick is held and lip patterns.

Whether the activities are those you’re interested in or not; it’s still good to learn them. If it’s an interest of someone else, you’ll understand them. As there are quite a few signs, I’ve split them up into alphabetical videos. Some letters may be combined if there’s only one or two for that letter.

B:

1. Basketball
2. Birdwatching

C:

1. Car Racing
2.  Computer Games
3.  Computers
4. Cricket
5. Cycling

D and F:

1. Dancing
2. Driving
3. Football
4. Fishing

G and K:

1. Going to a Resturant
2. Going to the Cinema
3. Kayaking

L and M:

1. Listening to the Radio
2. Meeting my Friends
3. Music

P:

1. Playing the Guitar
2. Playing the Piano
3. Playing the Violin

R:

1. Reading
2. Relaxing
3. Rugby
4. Running

S:

1. Sailing
2. Sewing
3. Sign Language
4. Signing

S continued and T:

1. Skiing
2. Surfing
3. Swimming
4. Tennis

W:

1. Walking
2. Watching TV
3. Watching Videos
4. Writing

That is a lot to learn. To break up this post I will continue the likes, dislikes and loves of spare time activities on the next post in the series. Take the time to process the spare time signs.

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