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Vocabulary Teaching



Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher has been designed to make life easier, and instruction more efficient, for those who teach English as a Second or Foreign Language.Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher was created by ESL teacher Gerry Luton, and Martin Holmes, formerly an ESL instructor and now a software designer. The purpose was simply to make the teaching task for Gerry a little easier through use of a tool which would allow him to quickly and easily provide mulitiple opportunities for his students to encounter and review vocabulary. Using the program, a gap-fill exercise to review 15 words can be created in about 3 minutes. Students constantly review vocabulary throughout the session, through gap-fill exercises, crossword puzzles using gap-fill sentences in context as clues, listening exercises using gap-fill sentences, discussions which require use of the target vocabulary, and many other activities.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher allows you to quickly and easily :
· create gap-fill exercises as hard-copy (paper) documents
· export your exercise into a Hot Potatoes JMatch or JCloze format to create interactive web-based exercises,
· create gap-fill exercises using American, British or Canadian English,
· import a new gap-fill exercise into an existing document,
· introduce new vocabulary for study,
· review vocabulary previously introduced in class,
· repeatedly recycle target vocabulary in varying contexts in order to enhance understanding,
· generate exercises tailor-made to specific students' needs for vocabulary instruction and/or review,
· focus separately on each of the ten sublists of the Academic Word List,
· test vocabulary compehension, and
· provide opportunities for students to practise target vocabulary in discussion activities.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher consists of a vast collection of sentences in context, illustrating over 2,600 words with a minimum of 15 contexts each, for a total of over 50,000 sentences and 750,000 words of data. Teachers choose the words to study, select from among a variety of sentences using the word and/or its various derivations in context, and with a few simple mouse-clicks, are able to create a complete vocabulary gap-fill exercise.
Furthermore, the program also allows users to edit or delete sentences contained within the database, and users can even add to their personal database collection with words and sentences of their own. Any changes or additions made are automatically saved to disc.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher is a 32-bit Windows application. This means that it will run on any computer running Windows 98, NT4, 2000, or XP. The Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher software program only takes up about 5Mb of space on your hard drive, or about as much space as a single song.

· Pricing is: One single-user registration Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher: US$50
· Extra seat (allows downloading of the program onto a 2nd computer): US$35
· CDRoom One single-user registration: US$75
· WordChamp offers several ways to learn and practice any of more than 130 languages, no matter what your native language happens to be.
There are language activities such as: Language Drills with which you can use flashcards to cop yor edit them. Web Reader which helps develop your ability to read foreign language websites or texts. Find a Language Partner which helps you to practice your language. Find a Tutor which means that you can get help from Professional tutors.
There are many activity types such as: Flashcard Drills, Time per Flashcard, Websites Read, Fill-in-the-Blank Activities and Multiple Choice Activities.
Also you can teach students with this program. These are the steps you can follow:
Create a class for your students.
You can create a class by logging in, going to your home page and clicking the "Create Class" button. Once you have set up a class, you will be able to create interactive homework assignments, and invite students to join.
Create and assign interactive homework activities.
Invite your students to join your new class.
Follow up on your class's progress.
Copy homework to new classes.

However the students need to pay Enrollment fee of $12.50 per semester for joining a class and accessing homework