Practise your listening and speaking skills and more ...

The Lingt Editor, also known as "The Lingt Classroom",  is a 2.0  Webtool which allows you to practise your listening and speaking skills in a creative, appealling way.

Here is a tutorial for you to see how it works

The Lingt Editor Tutorial for Students 

As you see, it is quite easy to use!

Now, below there is a link to my page in "The Lingt Editor" where you can try it by accomplishing the assignment mentioned in the video clip. Click on the word below the picture and give it a try!

Interview

Did you enjoy it? Then tell your teacher about it so you can both work to make your English even better!

Tell him/her to have a look at the following site as well: Project Lingt Classroom

Have fun and enjoy learning!

 

 

POEMA em Língua Gestual

You are about to watch a video clip of a twenty-year-old young man, who says a poem in his mother tongue: Portuguese Sign Language.He is deaf and suffers from a certain degree of autism. I have the privilege of being his teacher since September 2009.

Watch the video clip, enjoy it and then try to accomplish the tasks beneath it. Each task is a little more difficult than the previous one. Give them all a try! (Post your answers as a comment)

A.   From the words below, choose the ones you would use to describe the video clip/poem.

expressive              touching                    amazing                  confusing               optimistic

interesting              intriguing                   boring                      beautiful                pessimistic

B.    Imagine the video clip had no words, just the gestures and the expressions of the young man.

Would you understand anything? What?

C.    Complete:

The poem expresses …

The author needs …

He wants his friend to …

D.   Ricardo is deaf and somewhat autistic, but he attends a regular school where the majority of the people can hear perfectly and communicate orally.

Do you think he is discriminated against by other students? Explain.