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Multimedia refers to computer-basedmaterials designed to be used on a
computer. It can display printed text and high-quality
graphics, play pre-recorded audio andvideo material, and create new audio andvideo recordings.
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Multimedia is of considerable interest to
the language teacher, because of its
capability of integrating the four basic skills
of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
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Students can prepare homework using
multimedia encyclopedias or the Internet.
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Using a laptop and an Infocus projector a
student can display his homework and
explain it to his classmates and teacher.
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Nowadays multimedia interfaces are user-
friendly and suggest learners to practice.
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Interactive courses let us deal withdialogs, grammar structure, pronunciationor games easily.
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Multimedia courses are full of videos thatdepict cultural settings.
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Teaching grammar is very easy using the
computer.
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You can navigate easily by clicking on themenu options.
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Courses for children are plenty of colorful
and interesting tales and short stories.
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Sesame English is an amusing Course forchildren.
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Here we can see the menu.
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Solving the puzzle is a drag-and-drop
interactive activity. The pieces of the puzzle are buttons
constructed in Macromedia Flash.
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To perform the coloring activity, the student
can use a bucket of paint and a brush.
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To play in the maze, he starts in I like and
goes as long as he reaches a character.
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Next activity we can find is a matching
exercise. Here we drag-and-drop thewords under the pictures.
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Finally, We have a sing along activity.
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Here we have Cinderellas Fairy Tale
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When Students read, they are guided by images. If they click the speaker, they can listen to the
story.
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Students can go forwards or backwards inthe book, by clicking the folded tips of the
pages to the right or to the left.
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It was never easier for children to learn the
parts of the house
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Here we are at the start.
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We can choose what part we want to
study, by clicking the highlighted area.
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We can see and talk about the beautiful
parts of the house.
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Multimedia encyclopedias include the
tools elementary, high-school and
college students need to enhanceproductivity and achieve academic
success.
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Tools for students bring the world intotheir hands and help them learneasily.
Tools for educators help us get ourpoint across more effectively, withengaging content you know you cantrust.
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The articles in the Britannica are commonly consideredaccurate, reliable, and well-written, and it continues to bewidely consulted as a work of general reference.
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Encarta is the most versatile multimediaencyclopedia.
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Appropriate tools bring sight and sound
ready at your fingertips.
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This encyclopedia is full of videos andcharts since an image is worth a thousandwords.
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There is also a world full of knowledge foryoung investigators.
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Here we have the interface of the Road Ahead, abook by Bill Gates. We can perform several
activities: an interview with Bill, read the book, andhave a glimpse of how computers work in dailylife.
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This is the interview section, the Ask Billsection. If we click on an image area, aquestion will be selected.
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As soon as we select a question, a videoappears with Bill Gates answering thequestion.
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Here we have the contents of the book.
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I have selected chapter 9: Education The
Best Investment.
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If I click the highlighted words, it appears a tinywindow with additional information. When I click
again, this small window disappears.
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DVD-ROM discs run on computers
equipped with a DVD-ROM drive.
DVD-ROM discs combine computerprograms and movies and are becoming
increasingly flexible as an instructional
medium, especially for modern foreign
languages.
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English without Frontiers is a 12-DVD
course and books intended for Spanish
speaking people living in the US.
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This is the main menu from which you canselect different options
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From the main menu you can selectlessons.
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Lets choose lesson one to practice.
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Choosing class one, we end up in a fullvideo class with teacher and students.
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By far, the best way to learn a foreign
language is singing.
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Each lesson has a beautiful song andthe lyrics appear as subtitles.
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This traveling section is very amusing
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Here you can visit beautiful cities like New Yorkand Washington DC.
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You can also visit San Francisco and thefamous Golden Gate Bridge, and otherbeautiful cities.
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By using multimedia, students can easilylearn to understand, read and speak English.
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TriplePlay Plus! English teachesnaturally, entirely in the new language,
through multimedia.
Automatic Speech Recognitiontechnology helps you enhance foreign
language skills by actually talking with
the computer.
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This software is designed to listen to your
voice, evaluate and then reply. Instant
analysis and immediate feedback willimprove your pronunciation of new words
and phrases.
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Additionally, this software includes a
recording-and-playback feature that lets
you compare yourself to native speakersand improve your accent.
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You may listen to the dialogue as many
times as you want.
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While the character is talking, you can see
the written dialog at the bottom.
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Then, this interactive comic strip lets youcomplete the dialogue playing the roll of one
character.
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You are able to see, listen to, and repeatnew vocabulary.
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You can continue on your own recordingyour voice and listening to native speakersas many times as you need.
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You may choose the ball game you like
and talk to a partner.
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Its very easy to search your family treewith the help of this program.
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You may have real-life situations to talk
about.
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Of course, you may remember who the
people were and what they were doing.
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This is a multimedia
course which was
available to the public
through a local
newspaper.
Its a 12-Volume course
with books and CDs.
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Heres the computers interface display with
different buttons to perform different tasks.
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Here is an example of the video section.
Click on the ship to watch the video
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Its quite impossible for a foreigner to
perform a complete reading without
looking up for a word in a dictionary.
With the help of electronic dictionaries now
its an amusing task to get inside meaning
and vocabulary.
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This is dictionary intended for children.
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Clicking on letters of the alphabet takes you to
the catalog screen beginning with that letter.
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Click on any of these boxes to go to the article
screen. For example, click on the airplane box.
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Clicking on the airplane box, we enter tothe airplane screen.
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Clicking on the Airplane words link, we get
into the screen of related words.
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Clicking on the link At the airport, weenter to the airport related words.
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You can also look for opposites.
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We can perform guessing, spelling oridentifying games.
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This is a sample of a guessing game. First,
students read the suggested question. Then
click on the possible answer. Finally, the right or
wrong answer will appear in the box.
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To spell the word, first click on the pictureto hear the word pronounced.
Then, click on the letters below to spell theword.
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To discover the image you think makes the noise:
First, click on a question mark to play a sound.
Then, click on the image you think makes that noise. Finally, the screen wraps up and you see the right
response.
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This is a good choice for the serious adultlearner or college student.
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This is the welcome interface.
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First, you write or paste the word inside the box. Then, click on the Dictionary button.
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If you click the thesaurus button, you will have
ready at hand all synonyms you need.
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You can split the window by clicking theSplit button.
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You can have word pronounced clickingthe button Pronounce.
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Clicking the Word hunter button, you canselect words according to conditions.
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Clicking the Anagram button, you canunscramble complicated words.
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If you are solving a puzzle you can usewild cards to discover the word you need.
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You can enlarge the text to avoid sightfatigue.
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Cambridge Learners Dictionary is also a
good help for college or adult students.
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Using this dictionary, you can take advantage of
American and British Pronunciation.
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Music gets subconscious quickly and
subtly, and songs are a powerful medium
for acquiring new knowledge and forreinforcing already-learned structures.
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Here we have the interface of Sing AlongKids.
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When you roll the mouse over the pictures, you
can read the name of the song in the box below.
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Here, we chose the song Bingo.
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As the music goes on the words arehighlighted in yellow.
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For each spelled word, students clap their
hands.
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Students sing the second verse
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If necessary explain the key structures
there is and there are, the third person
singular, present tense of have.
Have your students use commands like
clap your hands.
This is a good exercise for practicing
spelling.
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More titles.
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Other titles.
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The TOEFL (Test of English as a ForeignLanguage) measures the level of Englishlanguage proficiency of non-native speakers ofEnglish.
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The TOEFL is an admissions requirement at
over 2,400 colleges and universities in TheUnited Stales and other parts of the world.
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The test currently contains 140 questions and
has four sections Listening Comprehension,
Structure and Written Expression, ReadingComprehension, and the test of Written English.
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The first three sections contain multiple choicequestions. Each multiple choice question has
four answer choices. The fourth section of thetest, the Test of Written English, contains oneessay question.
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Using this software you can practice the
listening comprehension section.
Review grammar and vocabulary.
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