Everyday Actions and Social Concepts 

📘 Overview

This unit introduces common action verbs and social interaction terms used in everyday Ghanaian Sign Language (GhSL) conversations. These words are essential for expressing routines, behaviors, responsibilities, emotions, and social dynamics. Mastery of these signs will help learners communicate more clearly in home, school, workplace, and community settings.

🎯 Learning Outcomes

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

• Recognize and accurately sign a variety of action verbs and abstract concepts in GhSL.

• Express cause-and-effect relationships (e.g., blame, encourage, check, criticize) in daily interactions.

• Describe personal behaviors, events, or sequences using appropriate GhSL signs.

• Respond appropriately in conversations involving instructions, advice, and responsibilities.

📅 Learning Activities 

• Watch: View the Lesson 16 video to learn and practice all vocabulary signs.

• Exercise: Complete Exercise 15 to test your understanding of the signs in context.

• Practice: Use a mirror or partner to fluently sign all vocabulary in short phrases or scenarios.

• Role-play: Simulate social scenes (e.g., apologizing, giving advice, reporting damage) using these signs

💡📚 Vocabulary Expansion 

Watch the video and learn how to sign these essential action and social behavior terms:

(Abandon, Accept, Action/Activity/Act, Advert, Allow, Arrive, Back and Forth, Become, Behavior, Blame, Break, Bury, Bring, Copy, Continue, Check, Criticize, Damage, Defeat, Depend, Develop, Grow, Disturb, Effort, Try, Encourage, Appear, Disappear, Search, Don’t)

✋📚 Lesson 16: Sign Language Practice 🤟📝  

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