You will need the Macromedia Flash Player for the visual illustrations. When the movie appears, you can right-click on it at any time to access the controls. You can also leave the movie by hitting your browser's BACK button to return to an earlier page. Sometimes the movie will end with the word "dênuô,", which you can click to start the movie again. In some browsers, the F11 key can toggle to a full-screen view.
These files support vocabulary-learning with text and imagery. They rely on the visual presentation of everyday objects to provide that kind of "meaningful communication" that has been found to be important for language-acquisition.
Hover the mouse-pointer over the colored buttons to view text and images.
When viewing the images alone, think of the words.
When reading the texts, imagine the objects or scenes.
After you familiarize yourself with the short narrative, go to the image alone and see if you can reproduce aloud what you have read, or produce new sentences about the scene.
Some of the buttons engage looping movies which can be stopped by keeping the mouse-pointer over the red button. Rolling the pointer outside of the red button will start the movie again at the point at which it stopped. Any button can be engaged at any time. Use your browser's BACK-button to return to this index-page. You might also choose to keep the index-page available while opening the links in a new page, according to the conventions of your browser.
Sample screen with buttons explained:
Note that all SWAV movies may not have exactly the same number or kinds of buttons. This screenshot is only intended to give you the general principle. Image copyright information: Some of these movies use licensed material from or via Hemera Technologies.
rosa / rosa secta / hortulâna |
Latin Teaching Materials at Saint Louis University: © Claude Pavur 2001 - 2003. This material is made freely available for non-commercial educational use.
