Lesson Tutor: American Sign Language meets Spanish Vocabulary

Lesson Tutor:
American Sign Language meets Spanish Vocabulary**

Joanne Mikola

English
ASL 
Spanish
red
red
Touch a right “d” hand to the lips,
glancing the top and then the bottom lip in a downward motion.
rojo
white
white

Touch all
fingertips and thumb of an open and slightly curved right hand to the
chest. Move the hand forward, while closing it so that the fingertips
touch about eight
inches in front of the chest.

 

 

blanco
blue

Slight shake a
right “B” hand as you hold it to the right of the body

 

 

azul
black
black

Touch
the index-finger side of a right “d” hand to the forehead. Then move it
across the forehead, (just above the eyebrows) in a left to right
motion.

 

 

negro
orange
orange

Squeeze
an “s” hand in front of the mouth to pantomime squeezing an orange.

 

 

anaranjado
green

Slightly
shake a right
“g” hand.

 

 

verde
yellow

Hold the right “Y” hand to the right side
of the body,
gently rotating it side to side several times.

 

 

amarillo
brown
brown

Draw a right “b” hand across the right
cheek, starting at
the right
side of the nose and ending at the bottom of the mouth.

 

 

cafe
pink

pink

Draw a ‘p’ hand down across lips.
rosado
purple

Hold
“p” hand to the right of
the body and move once from side to side.

 

 

morado
grey

Pass
fingers through open spaces between fingers as hands move in opposition.

 

 

gris

 

Ideas for learning games:
– print this page.
– glue a sheet of construction paper to the back of the page
– Cut the page into the ‘squares’ as indicated – reconstruct the ‘lines’ like a puzzle – example – place all the ‘red’ words together.

Play your own version of Concentration – any two squares that are the same word meaning can be matched.
(Remove one square from each word with a picture option. Dealer’s choice!)

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