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Pull down the File menu to select an appropriate Bee file, then click Bee to start spelling. It's easy to add your own word list, but not easy to get the program to use it. British spelling predominates.
Learners choose from a menu of topics to develop an idea and write their own topic sentence, body, and conclusion. Sections include cause and effect, reasons, details, examples, and sequencing. Upgraded for Windows 95/98/2000.
Pass First Certificate is a multimedia software program for students preparing for the Cambridge FCE exam. It contains over 500 exercises in grammar, reading, listening and writing. 5 'mock' exams and a 5,000-word exam-specific multilingual audio dictionary are also included. Demo versions can be downloaded from the publisher's website at http://www.pass-english-exams.com.
Designed for native speakers. Post-impressionist paintings with timelines and museum information. CD-ROM.
This self-paced program contains 500 stories and letters to edit at three reading levels and three interest levels (youth, teen, adult). Students have access to help in the form of a word list, context-sensitive grammar rules, and clues such as highlighting sentences and words with errors and modeling a correct version of the article. A record-keeping function tracks student progress in working through the skill areas the program addresses: abbreviations, punctuation, subject-verb agreement, irregular verbs, numbers, pronouns, easily confused words, and general editing.
500 word-based pronunciation exercises designed for self-study/supplement to classroom work. The learner self-assesses for each word practiced. The program uses SuperMemo technology to stage reviewing, so that each lesson includes some previously-viewed words along with new words. The program chooses words to review based on the learner's self-assessment, so that words assessed at a lower level are reviewed more frequently.
Freeware and shareware. Three different tools: look and spell; spell tester; and problem words. The free version uses two default lists. This program is only useful if you register to get more lists and to be able to create word lists. Download at http://www.spellingzone.com/.
Contains 400 customizable letters covering a broad range of topics for personal use.
Vocabulary presentation program organized around four thematic units: shopping, meals, appearances, and home. Display mode presents the target words together with a corresponding picture and digitized pronunciation one by one. In Matching mode the students match the word to the picture--testing what they've learned. Teachers can modify the order and content of lessons for each student. Has IntelliKeys overlays for students with limited manual dexterity. CD-ROM.
Early Learning software on CD-ROM. Activities teach reading and math readiness, basic keyboarding. Has speech and is compatible with TouchWindow. This is not ESL stuff, but most of it can be easily demonstrated by the teacher, and kids catch on real quick.
This HyperCard stack from Elizabeth Hanson-Smith prompts students step by step in the creation of six styles of poetry and also includes a numer of fiction starters. The poetry styles include Cinquain, Diamonds, Sense Poems (easy, medium and hard) and Haiku. The color version is distributed by Computers for Education, and a black and white version is available on the TESOL/CELIA CD-ROM.
Students select from Mexico, Ghana, Japan, and Turkey as a country of interest, then choose a writing project: narrative, persuasive, compare/contrast, or descriptive. They can view three different multimedia tours of each country to look at the culture, history, and geography. Students take notes in a travel log. The program offers a 'Mail Room' where students write postcards, first in a structured format, then without prompts. Teachers can add more writing assignments. The program includes help in finding keypals on the Internet and a list of websites for online research. CD-ROM. The publisher offers a free demo.
Covers listening comprehension, grammar, and reading for the new computer-based TOEFL. CD-ROM.
Test preparation for the computer-based TOEFL on CD-ROM. Includes two timed computer-based tests with authentic questions; actual tutorials from the test, including computer literacy practice; three essay topics for writing practice; sample essays written by actual TOEFL test takers; and score ranges at the end of each section. The tutorials are the same as in the TOEFL Sampler, free for viewing online at the www.toefl.org.
A special version for the primary grades of Teachers Power Pack with Test Creator and Puzzle Power.
Now part of Classworks, a comprehensive classroom management tool. This component is an interactive reading program with 36 original stories written at 6 different reading levels. Each story includes comprehension questions and can be individualized to different students' needs. The program include a student management system to track student progress through the lessons. Multilingual audio capability so that students can hear a translation of the text in any of eight different languages.
This computer tool is very useful in enabling students to complete such tasks as creating greeting cards, signs, personalized letterhead stationary, banners and calendars. The program comes with lots of interesting pre-made graphics which students can use in the creation of their projects. The new Print Shop Deluxe edition on CD-ROM adds the following capabilities to the previous editions: scalable graphics; color printing; TrueType fonts (which can also be scaled without losing any quality); new styles of ready-made graphics to serve as backgrounds for individual letters or as a border for a whole side of a text; special pre-made headline texts; 'rich text,' which allows users to change fonts, styles, sizes and colors within individual words; a new utility to export Print Shop Deluxe graphics to other programs; and a layout program to facilitate creative mixing of text and graphics. Earlier disk-based version is slightly less expensive.
Pronunciation CD-ROM with a variety of exercises for practice. Learners can listen, record, and review the different sounds. Video and animation are included for each sound, as well as waveforms. See a review in CALICO Journal at http://calico.org/CALICO_Review/review/propower00.htm.
104 Idiom lessons with a picture, a description of the idiom and a recorded sample sentence. Exercises and quizzes are also included. CD-ROM.
This CD-ROM includes Crossword Creator, Wordsearch Creator, KrissKross (like Scrabble), Quote Falls, Cryptograms, and Cryptoquizzes. What sets this apart from many others is that graphics, sound, and video clips can be included in the clues. Hundreds of predesigned puzzles, including New York Times puzzles, are on the CD-ROM (though these are not specifically for ESL). Puzzles can be played on screen, printed out, or exported to a word-processor (sound and video may not transfer, and certainly won't print out). Contains both the Crossword Creator AND Wordsearch Creator.
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