Scramble Dialogues does nothing else
but just what its name states: it scrambles dialogues.
It has just been designed to help teachers of Foreign Languages to write that helpful exercise that a scramble dialogue is. Even though it has been designed thinking of EFL/ESL teachers, any teacher of any Wstern Foreign anguage can use
it. The only limitation maay come from the kind of alphabet.
This is SCRAMBLE DIALOGUES' main
window (all the pictures below refer to the Linux version, the background colour in the Windows version is light blue).
fig.1
When the program starts up, a blinking
cursor is waiting for the user to input cues in the lowest part of
the window. You can write the cues of your dialogues both by typing
them each one at a time and then clicking the button "Cue
Input" (or pressing RETURN) and by loading a dialogue previosly
written with any editor and saved in .txt format.
N.B.: the maximum number of cues you
can input is thirty (30). Be careful! The cues of the dialogue cannpt
be edited. If you make a mistake while inputting them, you must
rewrite the hole dialogue. We know that this may be very boring,
anyway it has not been possible to do otherwise.
SCRAMBLE DIALOGUES in action
fig.2
Once you have finished inputting the
cues, you can shuffle them any time you like.
Through the File menu , you can both
save and print:
the simple dialogue;
the scrambled dialogue;
both simple and scrambled dialogues
The scrambled dialogues take the .sdl extension.
EXPORTING DIALOGUES
fig.3
It may be useful to export either
simple or scrambled dialogues to another application, i.e. a word
processor: That's very easy. The buttons are on the left side of the
main window: you select the desired dialogue first; then you copy
your selected dialogue into the clipboard, pass to the WP you are
using and paste your dialogue there.
