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A multimedia package based on 12 EFL songs by Christopher Jones. The songs cover a wide range of vocabulary, grammar and functions. The package uses a wide variety of activity types created with the Authoring Suite. Demo available. Contact the publisher for pricing.
Elementary; explore words, rhyming, letters, and stories.
Covers reading skills such as plot summary, character analysis, style and point of view.
Test prep textbook with CD-ROM.
Easy-to-use, non-threatening program to help computer beginners gain familiarity with moving, clicking, and double-clicking a mouse. It works by having the user click on progressively smaller boxes that move around the screen. Excellent for adult learners as well as for children. A website membership fee allows the download of about 100 different programs, at least 15 of them good for English language learners.
Designed for adults who need reading and writing skills; uses extensive audio. Eight units, sold separately. Each unit includes a management component. The units are Duc and Linh (lifeskills math and numeracy, inferences, map reading); New Challenges (signs, maps, compare products, make appointments, make inferences); Grace Under Pressure (career search, basic home repairs, interpret charts and graphs, auto purchasing and insurance); Amazing Grace (test-taking strategies, time management, price comparison, budgeting, writing ads and letters); Joe Moves Up (job attitudes, phone skills, using a catalog, customer service, cooking); KC Makes Choices (emergency first aid, durgs and alcohol, gangs, getting a job, dealing with learning disabilities, reading comprehension); Linda's New Start (job handbook, customer service, comparison shopping, using a timecard); and Day by Day (computing mileage, reading a map, comparison shopping, making a budget, time management, fact vs. opinion).
A series of 24 CD-ROMs provide a variety of language activities. Includes an English-Chinese dictionary.
9-level series, each with 16-24 lessons. Major emphasis is on grammar and vocabulary development, with a variety of exercises that include voice recording and comparison with the model. Extensive record-keeping and management that prints out reports and certificates. Schools subscribe for a period of time and pass the costs on to students. The package includes books and a dongle (hardware key). Students can work at home in the book, then enter their answers on the computer to check them. The company offers on-site teacher training.
BetterAccent Tutor analyzes intonation, stress and rhythm patterns of a user-recorded utterance and visualizes these patterns in an easy- to-understand manner. By pinpointing the exact mistakes, BetterAccent Tutor allows users to focus on the problems that are unique to their speech. Users can record and playback. The program visualizes the syllabic structure of recorded utterances and highlights the syllables as they are played back, which allows users to visually compare the user's and native speaker's intonation, intensity and rhythm patterns. An extensive set of exercises and explanations of each exercise are included, as well as a large collection of utterances by native speakers to provide users with guidance and a yardstick for correct pronunciation.
Students can click on any state to hear its name pronounced in a real, not Macintalk, voice!) and see the name on the screen. Once they are ready, they have a choice of three quizzes. One tests them on the names of the regions - which are not taught in this program! In another they hear and see the question 'Find [state name]' If they click on the correct state they can click on a pair of dice to move on to the next question. In the other quiz, they see the state and its capital together with the names of the neighboring states, and they are asked to click on the appropriate information. Shareware. Requirements: HyperCard or HyperCard Player. Headphones useful, to stop the teacher from going crazy ;-) (Addis) One version can be downloaded from http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/mac/amug/files/educ/culture-geography/better-u.s.-map-1.1.sit.hqx
Students can use this to construct, organize, and describe data with a variety of graphs. It includes a library of over 150 icons, and will count numbers aloud as the graph is created. Information can be represented in Spanish or English. On CD-ROM.
Now part of Classworks, a comprehensive classroom management tool. This component is a reading comprehension program in Spanish and English that features immediate on-screen translation of stories into either language. It features 36 stories with colorful graphics. Includes audio capability for students to hear key words translated into either language.
Students see a sentence to complete at the top of the screen, and try to shoot a billiard ball at the pocket near the appropriate homonym. Correct choices make it into the pocket. The word lists can be customized. The English and ESL version includes two sets of disks, one in English and one in Spanish. In the Spanish version, vocal instructions are in Spanish and text is in English. Part of the Heartsoft Bestseller collection.
The Tutorial section teaches the parts of the body and face. Students can then use Build-a-Face and Build-a-Body to choose the characteristics of either a body or face by answering basic, either-or questions, which are both spoken and written. After all the questions are answered, the BodyBuilder assembles the face or body, saying all the words as it proceeds. An online glossary is also available.
Multimedia-rich program to help students develop learning strategies, with a focus on remembering, organizing, prioritizing, shifting, and checking. Students practice with different activities. Record-keeping function is included. CD-ROM. See a review at http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/ej29/m1.html.
Thie HyperCard stack from Elizabeth Hanson-Smith asks students to freewrite from four different aspects (narrative, description, analysis, comparison) about the teacher's prompt or one of several computer-generated pictures. The student then chooses key words from the freewriting to organize into an idea web. Writing and the idea web may be printed out. The color version is distributed by Computers for Education, and a black and white version is available on the TESOL/CELIA CD-ROM.
Helps create the plots for ÒBuddyÓ movies. Learners choose from various lists to generate a plot, which they can then flesh out. Requires HyperCard.
Four separate 11-disk sets cover predicting and restating sequence; identifying main ideas, moods, and irrelevant information; using examples; types of persuasion; inferring main ideas, purpose, and word meanings; and judging logical validity. Tutorials and short readings with multiple choice and fill-in questions. Created for junior high level native speakers. $200 per set; $400 for lab packs per set; $1000 network license per set. $750 for the complete series.
Can be used in conjunction with the Business Challenges Course Book or independently. Soap opera style video clips about a proposed merger between a British and a Japanese company form the core of the program. The video clips serve as a basis of interactions with language, including cloze exercises, sentence jumbles and other point-and-click activities. Onscreen instructions are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Italian. British English. Two levels, sold separately.
Multimedia CD-ROM with 80 hours of instruction, designed to improve business communication skills for low-intermediate to intermediate-level adult learners. There are five modules, each with three units, plus a pre- and a post-test. Introductions, basic explanations, telephoning, and writing email messages and memos are among the topics. The program includes video and audio clips and animated grammar explanations. Teachers' guides are available at the product website, http://longman.com/ae/multimedia/programs/BC.htm.
Business English vocabulary and speaking practice with a range of exercises.
Contains 400 customizable letters, memos, press releases, announcements, proposals and other documents covering a broad range of topics for business. American English, unlike many other business English products.
Students visit a variety of working environments in the UK and the USA in these CD-ROM-based programs. Authentic, non-scripted video interviews are accompanied by transcripts, paraphrases, a glossary, and audio comments giving both linguistic and business information. Teachers have a wide range of printable worksheets requiring students to collaborate in researching particular aspects of the companies and presenting their findings. 5-user licenses available.
A two CD-ROM comprehensive course that introduces English for professional, social and travel situations. Business to Go! emphasizes speaking and listening skills and is divided into eight everyday situations: hotels, travel, appointments, directions, greetings, socializing, eating out and work. Each situation includes: listening exercises, target vocabulary, pronunciation activities, role-play exercises, and video clips.
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