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Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Conventions Used in This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 How This Book Is Organised 3 Part I: Starting to Sign 3 Part II: Everyday BSL 3 Part III: Getting Out and About 3 Part IV: Looking into Deaf Life 3 Part V: The Part of Tens 3 Part VI: Appendixes 4 Icons Used in This Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part I: Starting to Sign 5 Chapter 1: Discovering Who's Who - and How They Communicate 7 Different Groups of Deaf People 7 Who's dumb? 7 Understanding who's who 8 and how do they communicate? 10 Attracting a Deaf Person's Attention? 13 Touching on the arm or shoulder 13 Waving 14 Stamping on the floor 14 Switching the light on and off 14 Watch My Lips! 14 Chapter 2: Sign Language You Didn't Know You Knew 17 Signs That Make Sense 17 Gestures 17 How do you sign this word? 18 How does BSL create new signs? 19 Making It Clear with Body Language 20 Let Me Spell It Out: Finger-spelling 20 Left or right? 22 Watch my lips - not my fingers 23 Now you see it, now you don't 23 Funny Faces 24 Using funny faces 25 No! Not me! 25 Oh yes! 25 Are you happy? 25 Getting Your Hands into Shape 26 What is a hand shape? 26 Simple Sentences: Sign Order 28 Chronological order 28 Question forms 28 Part II: Everyday BSL 31 Chapter 3: Meeting and Greeting 33 Greetings! Starting a Conversation 33 Asking questions: Who? What? Why? When? Where? Which? How? 34 WH questions (open) 35 Yes/no questions (closed) 36 Rhetorical questions 37 Getting to Know You 37 What's in a Name? 40 Where do you live? 40 So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye 47 Chapter 4: Knowing Me, Knowing You 53 Don't Point! It's Rude! Or Is It? 53 Telling Others about Yourself 54 Family and friends 54 Talking about your job 58 Discussing your workplace 60 Chapter 5: Expressing Your Feelings 69 How's Life? Talking about Your Feelings 69 You OK? Talking about your health 75 Where does it hurt? 79 Just take one of these 85 999 Emergency 88 Chapter 6: Nailing Numbers 95 Explaining Regional Signs 95 Numbers? Count me in 96 Who's first? 102 Telling the time 103 Talking about money 105 Asking someone's age 107 Chapter 7: Describing Weather, Colour, and Clothes 119 Signing Come Rain, Come Shine 119 Describing Colours 123 Developing Dress Sense 125 Eyeing up everyday clothes 126 Mentioning the unmentionables 129 Wrapping up winter warmth 130 Putting a spring in your signs 134 Summer sun (if you're lucky) 135 Part III: Getting Out and About 141 Chapter 8: Getting from A to B 143 Signing Space 143 Placement of signs 144 Prepositions 144 How Do I Get to ? 145 Getting to and from work 148 Location, location, location 152 Looking out for local landmarks 153 Countryside landmarks 157 Out on the Town 159 Chapter 9: Arranging Not So Blind Dates 167 Getting Tense about Time 167 Arranging to Meet 169 Today's the day 169 When shall we meet? 172 Mastering months 178 Special Celebrations 181 Chapter 10: Fancy Fish and Chips? 189 On Today's Menu 189 Which knife and fork to use? 189 Want breakfast? 193 Grabbing a quick lunch 197 Tea, a drink with jam and bread 204 What's for dinner? 206 Eating Out 209 Take-away food 210 Fancy a drink anyone? 213 Chapter 11: Making the Most of Your Free Time 217 Having Fun with Leisure Activities 217 Getting Sporty 222 Playing Indoor Games 230 Having Fun with Hobbies 234 Part IV: Looking into Deaf Life 243 Chapter 12: Deaf Community and Culture 245 Digging Into the History of BSL 245 Exploring the Origins of Deaf Education 246 Deaf 1880 Milan conference 246 The oral method 247 Enlightenment at last! 247 The Social Side of the Deaf World 247 Discovering Deaf clubs 248 Embracing the new 248 Access for Deaf people - Language Service Professionals (LSPs) 249 Investigating interpreters 249 Communicators/Communication Support Workers (CSWs) 251 Lipspeakers 251 Manual notetakers 253 Electronic note-takers 253 Palantypist/speech-to-text reporter (STTR) 254 LSP etiquette 254 Chapter 13: Technology and Modifications for Deaf People 257 Keeping in Touch 257 Minicoms and Text-phones 258 Type-Talk and Text-Direct 259 SMS 259 Fax machines 259 Email 260 Videophones/webcams 260 Wakey-wakey! Flashing Lights and Vibrating Alarms 260 Somebody at the door 261 Fire! Fire!/Baby's crying! 261 Wake-up call 261 Part V: The Part of Tens 263 Chapter 14: Ten Top Tips to Improve Your Signing Skills 265 Watch My Face 265 RSVP Please 265 Showing the Sign! 266 Spotting the Difference 266 Being Honest 266 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall 266 Being a Film Star 267 Keeping a Record 267 Hare or Tortoise? 267 The Way of the World 267 Chapter 15: Ten Top Tips For Good Communication 269 Get an Attitude 269 Lights, Camera Action! 270 Does He Take Sugar? 270 Get Body-Conscious 270 What's the Point? 271 Keep Clear - Access Required 271 Be Environmentally Friendly 272 One at a Time Please! 272 English versus BSL 272 Don't Give Up! 273 Chapter 16: Ten Top BSL Resources 275 Honing Your Skills at BSL Classes 275 Attending a Communication Club 275 Going to Deaf Pubs 276 Taking a Trip to the Theatre or Cinema 276 Attending Deaf Workshops and Conferences 277 Watching BSL Signed DVDs 277 Taking in TV Programmes 277 Wising Up to Websites 278 Weighing Up Webcams 278 Making Deaf Friends 278 Chapter 17: Ten Really Useful Phrases 279 How Are You? 279 You All Right? 280 Again, Please 280 I'm Sorry 281 I Don't Understand 281 Do You Need Help? 282 That's Right! 282 That's Bad/Wrong! 283 Excuse Me 283 See You Around/Soon! 284 Chapter 18: Ten Things You (Probably) Didn't Know about Deaf Culture and History 285 British Sign Language (BSL) 285 St John of Beverley 286 Early Signs of Sign Language 286 Vows of Silence 286 To Read and Write - Right? 286 Finger-spelling Circa 1720 287 Give Us a Bell 287 Deaf Church to Department Store 287 The Queen Amused Others 287 Deaf to the Crowd 288 Part VI: Appendixes 289 Appendix A: Answer Key to Fun & Games 291 Appendix B: About the Online Content 293 What You'll Find Online 293 Dialogues 293 Customer Care 295 Index 297

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