British Sign Language Award

Topics and Content: Mandatory Meeting people (identifying common courtesies and information, understanding simple question forms, and the fingerspelling names & places) Work, school and/or college (identifying types of work or educational institutions, occupations or courses being learnt, length of time worked or number of years in school/college, eg. final year) Using numbers (use of local numbering systems for counting people, things, telling the time, age and currency variants) Weather (identifying comments about the weather and seasonal variants) Instructions and Directions (being able to understand instructions and directions of what to do/where to go/how to do something) Opinions and Ideas (understanding the difference between facts and ideas/opinions in simple descriptions or statements) Use of simple linking conventions and prepositions (i.e. use of sign structures linking words and phrases) Signing Structure (understanding placement, use of verbs & phrases, non-manual features, sign order, handshapes, direction, orientation)