Hey y'all, my name is Erin, and I'm just out here
tending to the animals. I know that you've been learning all about animal signs in the last
few lessons. Are you ready to learn how to sign about them? Great. Today we're going to be
learning phrases and questions related to pets, zoo animals, and farm animals, so that you can keep having conversations
about animals. So stretch out your fingers. Shake out your hands, and let's get ready to sign. Feel free to sign along with me. You can also
pause the video as needed, rewind, slow down, or repeat so that you can practice on your own
and pick up as much as you can. Ready to keep signing about animals? Okay, let's go. For this
lesson, we're going to start off with a quick review of all of the pets, farm, and zoo animal
signs that we learned in our last two lessons. This way we're ready to sign all about
them in our phrases and questions. Are you ready to review? I want you
to sign along with me if you can. Pet. Bird. Cat. Dog. Fr
og. Fish. Lizard. Snake. Spider. Horse. Bunny. Rat. Tiger. Lion. Bear. Elephant. Monkey. Giraffe. Cow. Pig. Goat. Sheep. Chicken. Duck. Fantastic! You remembered so much,
and if you couldn't remember them all, that's okay. Just rewind the video and sign
them all with me again. Practice makes perfect. Okay, so now that we've reviewed all of these
animal signs, let's learn a new phrase to help us put this vocab to use. We're going to learn
how to sign, "I feed my pet every morning." To start,
we're going to learn to
sign the times of day. Watch this. What was happening there? Did you notice that the
sun changed positions as the time of day changed? So when the sun is down and it moves up,
it's showing that the time of day is morning. Can you sign it with me? Morning. Good. Morning.
When the sun is straight up in the sky, it's noon. Noon. When it starts to move down, that's
afternoon. See here? Afternoon. You try. Afternoon. When the sun is down at its
lowest in the sky and it s
tarts to get dark, that's when it's evening. Can you
sign that with me? Evening. Great job. Go ahead and pause here to practice those
signs. Morning, afternoon, and night. If I want to say, "I feed my pet
every morning," I would sign, every morning my pet I feed. Time comes
first. So it is time, topic, comment. Time is every morning. The topic is my
pet, and the comment, or what I do with it, is I feed. Pause the video here and practice
on your own with your own combinations. Sometimes far
m chores or feeding animals can
take place at different times throughout the day. One way to find out is to ask
someone when they feed their pets. To make sure that they know you're asking a
question, we put the question word at the end of the sentence here. That means you start
with the topic, your pet, and the comment, you feed, and the question, when? It would
look like this. Your pet you feed when? Make sure you remember, with a wh question,
your eyebrows go down. Can you practice with
me? Awesome job. Let's try
signing the question together. Your pet you feed when? Awesome. Try it again
a little bit faster. Your pet you feed when? Great job. You can also ask someone when they feed
any animal. Say you run into a zookeeper. Oh, hey Mia. I wanted to know, when do you feed the snake?
You would sign that snake you feed when? Can you try it with me? Snake you feed when? Great. Let's
try that a little faster. Snake you feed when? You can answer that with one of the times of da
y
that we covered earlier. Every morning snake I feed. Try it with me. Every morning snake I feed.
A little faster. Every morning snake I feed. Pause the video here and practice on
your own with your own combinations. When it comes to animals, there are
some that you might want to be around, and some you might not want to be around. To
sign what kind of pet you want, sign animal I want. You would replace the word
animal with what type of animal you want. Let's try a few examples with
the
animal signs that we know. Dog I want. Your turn. Sign with me. Dog I want.
Snake I want. Let's sign together. Snake I want. Great job. If you're at the zoo, you can
sign what you want to see by adding the sign see. You use your hand in a K handshape, palm in,
and touch your middle finger to right below your eye. You move your wrist forward like you view it
in front of you, see. Can you try it with me? See. Let's try it in a sentence. Animal I want
see. What about at the zoo? Lion I want se
e. Bear I want see. That sounds pretty exciting.
What about in a pet store? Lizard I want see. Bird I want see. Pause the video here and
practice on your own with your own combinations. A great way to practice is by having a
conversation. If you want to start one about pets, you can ask someone
if they have a pet of their own. To ask if someone has a
pet, you sign pet you have? We know the sign for pet, so that's an easy place
to start. To ask a question when the answer is a yes or a no, y
ou raise your eyebrows up. It's like
when you ask a question and your voice goes up at the end. To show you're asking if they have a
pet, you use a D handshape and point at them. You. To ask if they have it, you sign have
with two bent close five hand shapes, your fingertips at your shoulders. Your
eyebrows go up so they know it's a question. If you want to make sure that they know it's a
question, you can sign question by maybe making an X handshape and wiggling it. This is like a
questio
n mark. All together. This is pet you have? Okay, now it's time to sign
with me. Ready? Pet you have? That was great. I am so impressed with
everything that you learned and tried. Thank you so much for signing along with me today.
If you want to review, I would love to practice with you again. Just rewind the video and re-watch
while you sign along with me. Keep up the good work. Keep practicing, and I'll see you in the
next lesson. Oh, and remember, always be clever.
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