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Rumours 2

Reading and Vocabulary

A. Discuss with a partner.
1. Do you know anyone who is deaf?
2. What challenges do you imagine deaf people
might face?
3. Do you know any sign language?
4. What do you think the sign in the picture
represents in American Sign Language (ASL)?

B. Match the words with their definitions.
1. deaf a. a simple form of a language
2. devise b. a person who helps two people who don’t share
3. drawback a common language communicate
4. interlingual communication c. a negative quality or a disadvantage

5. interpreter d. being unable to hear
6. linguistic barriers e. problems caused by a lack of knowledge of a language
7. pidgin f. to invent, create or think something up
8. standardise g. to make something of the same type have the same
features
h. using two or more languages

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