FIRST COURSE: Punctuation
THE BUTTONS
THE OTHER COURSES
Writing
Deadline!
Grammar
Spelling
Reading
EXAM PRACTICE
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THE MAIN SCREEN FIRST COURSE: Punctuation THE BUTTONS THE OTHER COURSES Writing Deadline! Grammar Spelling Reading EXAM PRACTICE |
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This screen is the departure point for each of the courses: Punctuation, Writing, Deadline, Grammar, Spelling, Reading and Exam Practice.
Let's take a look at the first course: Punctuation
As you can see, all the lessons are listed on the right hand side.
Click on the first one: Full stop
The teacher in the bottom left corner explains you verbally the lesson and you can move from the beginning to the end with the arrows.
At the bottom of any lesson screen, you have access to 4 buttons:
The Main/Menu button is a link to
the the main screen at any time.
The Word Processor button is a :
link to WordPad. You can select a specific word processor in the Preferences menu.
The Resource Library button opens a
new window with different documents about different subjects.
The Index button is a shortcut on the GCSE
English Online Help.
In the Writing course, follow the Forms of Writing (letters, newspaper articles, magazine articles, diaries/journals, prose), Purpose (argument, persuasion, instructions, information, description, narrative)and Audience lessons.
In the Deadline! game you get a chance to apply your knowledge to real life situation.
The Grammar section is divided into the following lessons: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions and clauses, prepositions, synonyms and antonyms, words often misused and a quiz.
11 lessons into the Spelling section: introduction to spelling, word endings, letter combinations, silent letters, prefixes, sound alikes, verb endings, plurals, word topics, common misspellings, spelling game kit.
And 11 lessons too in the Reading section: Newspaper articles, magazines, publicity material, advertising and promotional material, reading for information, reading instructions, poetry, prose, autobiographies, diaries and journals, travel-writing, letters.
This section is different: first of all, choose a resource.
The resource list and questions will depend on your difficulty level.
Each resource has a reading and a writing type question.
When you have chosen a resource, select a question type then click on Answer Question.
The resources are displayed through a program called Acrobat Reader.