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Everyday American Sign Language
Idioms & Phrases Volume 1
Teacher's Instruction Bundle

Teacher Instructional Workbook & DVD plus 6 Student DVDs
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Your experience learning idioms and phrases in American Sign Language (ASL) begins here! Throughout this DVD, you will learn over 50 idioms and phrases in ASL about all facets of everyday life. You will also learn how to use these expressions in complete English and ASL sentences.

This DVD is led by a team of Deaf ASL professionals with more than 30 years of combined teaching and Deaf interpreting experience. They will teach you how to recognize and express commonly used idioms and phrases in ASL fluently. This DVD is a powerful learning tool best for ASL classes and interpreter training courses, as well as Deaf/hard of hearing individuals, and families and professionals using everyday idioms and phrases in all types of conversations daily [DVD-R: (2008) 43 minutes; ASL; English; open captioned; not rated; Region 1] DVDs not returnable once opened.

Idiom/Phrase Examples Included:
At a loss for words.
Better than nothing.
Holy cow.
What's your problem.
Much better than someone.
That's not what I'm talking about.
It really stinks.
If I were you.

This DVD-R contains the following features:
Taught by Deaf ASL professionals
Over 50 sentence examples
Easy to follow instructions
Narration about idioms in ASL
English idioms translated to ASL
Bloopers and outtakes

Gilda Ganezer co-authored several instructional books on ASL and trained dozens of teachers teaching techniques with these books. Co-developed and directed ASL/English Idioms and their Translations videotape/workbook set, which was one of the best-selling set teaching the essentials of using idioms in various situations and dialect. Ms. Ganezer train teachers the methods of teaching ASL/English idioms with signing accuracies and precision (i.e. exhibiting accents while expressing idioms). Also taught accredited ASL courses at Long Island University at C.W. Post. Ms. Ganezer developed and coordinated ASL and Deaf Culture curriculums, including Vista s Signing Naturally series and A Basic Course in American Sign Language, which were then integrated and taught at nationwide ASL conferences for over 5 years that attracted hundreds of attendees from all parts of the world. Ms. Ganezer is proficient in teaching students, particularly the novice ones with minimal exposure to the language or Deaf Culture, the fundamentals of ASL grammar and sentence structures while promoting cultural and lingual respect among Deaf and hearing peers. She specializes in the fields of Deaf Interpreting working with interpreters as a team for Deaf people with minimal language skills.

DVD-Video - 43 minutes.
ASL; English; Open Captioned; Voice Over Audio

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