Health and the Human Body (I) 

📘 Overview

This unit expands on the vocabulary required to communicate effectively in GhSL about health, the human body, illnesses, and medical situations. It includes essential terms used in real-life conversations around personal well-being, emergency care, and disability awareness. 

🎯 Learning Outcomes

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

• Recognize and sign key health- and body-related vocabulary.

• Communicate more effectively in contexts involving hospitals, emergency care, or disabilities.

• Apply appropriate GhSL signs during role-plays or conversations about health issues.

📅 Learning Activities 

• Watch the Lesson 13 video for vocabulary signing practice.

• Exercise: Complete Exercise 13 to test your understanding of the signs.

• Practice: Sign all practice sentences fluently with a partner or mirror.

• Interpret: Watch a short health-related video clip and interpret it into GhSL.

💡📚 Vocabulary Expansion 

Watch the video and learn how to sign these words   (Bone, Vagina, Penis, Breastfed, Sore, T.B, Transmit, Wheelchair, Condom, Cancer, Diahhoea, Disabled, Emergency, Insurance, Kill, Laboratory, Hospitalized/lie Down, pill, Rehabilitation, Malaria, Menses, Poison, Sperm, Temperature, Germs/Virus, Smoking, health, and Human) 

✋📚 Lesson 13: Sign Language Practice 🤟📝  

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