ELLIS Intro concentrates on young adult and adult basic English skills for beginners and provides a virtual language environment with the most impressive features of any ESL program. With the use of video, graphics and audio, very little reading is required by the user. Intro teaches basic English communication and life skills to beginning ESL/EFL learners at all educational levels, including those who are non-literate. Learners observe Bill and Olivia, their family and friends using natural English in authentic situations. Intro's eight themes and 35 lessons cover basic life skills, including shopping, banking, looking for work, obtaining medical care, and various social situations. Instructional objectives emphasize vocabulary development, use of meaningful language in real-life situations, and understanding Canadian culture. Assisting in the development of sentence structure and clear pronunciation are also learning objectives of ELLIS Intro. uses full-motion video to depict authentic events and situations lets learners choose the amount of video they work with in each lesson utilizes point-and-click menus, ensuring ease-of-use for all learners allows learners to self-pace their instruction includes competency-based testing of lesson objectives incorporates an on-line picture dictionary teaches pronunciation activities in context of dialog from the video provides more carefully-enunciated audio playback gives learners many opportunities to record, playback and compare their voices includes practice activities and exercises with summary activities which require students to synthesize and apply the skills they've learned includes on-line help in English and foreign languages allows learners and instructors to track individual progress includes learner workbook and instructor guide contains more than 400 hours of instruction.

Ideal for intermediate students from middle school through higher education, plus business, adult literacy and vocational programs, ELLIS Middle Mastery teaches intermediate communication skills. ELLIS Middle Mastery combines motion video with text, still images, graphics, audio, and recording features in one system. Middle Mastery contains 5 themes with 20 lessons, covering topics such as shopping for food, cooking at home, engaging in small talk and other common social situations. Instructional objectives emphasize use of authentic language in real-life situations, vocabulary development, grammar functions, Canadian culture and development of clear pronunciation. uses full-motion video to depict authentic events and situations provides age-specific content contains branching to more than 70 possible paths and outcomes utilizes point-and-click menus, ensuring ease-of-use for all learners provides more carefully-enunciated audio playback gives learners hundreds of opportunities to record, playback and compare their voices involves the learner directly through interactive role play activities increases listening comprehension with aural activities illustrates grammar usage in a variety of formats, including the interactive Grammar Tutor includes three levels of practice items which require students to synthesize and apply ! knowledge allows learners to self-pace their instruction optional on-line foreign language translation includes pre-tests and post-tests for each lesson allows learners and instructors to track individual progress includes learner workbook and instructor guide contains more than 200 hours of instruction

The flagship of the ELLIS product line is recognized worldwide as the premier ESL program for higher education. ELLIS Senior Mastery is designed to meet the needs of learners intermediate to advanced English programs and is ideal for those who are preparing to register for college courses or take the TOEFL exam. Senior Mastery contains 12 themes and 47 lessons, such as registering for classes, planning a budget, job hunting, and other common social situations. Instructional objectives emphasize the following ESL skills: grammar functions, vocabulary and colloquial expressions and understanding Canadian cultural practices. Senior Mastery also assists in the development or reinforcement of clear pronunciation and listening comprehension. uses full-motion video to depict authentic events and situations contains branching to more than 70 possible paths and outcomes utilizes point-and-click menus, ensuring ease-of-use for all learners provides more carefully-enunciated audio playback gives learners hundreds of opportunities to record, playback and compare their voices involves the learner directly through interactive role play activities increases listening comprehension with aural activities illustrates advanced-level grammar functions in the interactive Grammar Guide includes three levels of practice items which require students to synthesize and apply knowledge allows learners to self-pace their instruction optional on-line foreign language translation includes pre-tests and post-tests for each lesson allows learners and instructors to track individual progress includes learner workbook and instructor guide contains more than 350 hours of instruction.

ELLIS Master Pronunciation is a powerful tool to help learners improve their accents and listening comprehension. Pronunciation displays sounds pronounced by male and female models, with animated sequences showing articulation points of the tongue, teeth and lips for each phoneme. Learners can record themselves pronouncing these sounds and words at their own pace. Minimal Pairs activities can be chosen for language-specific or individual needs. 2,500 minimal pairs provide an almost unlimited source for auditory-discrimination practice. Speech Acts offers thousands of opportunities to learn and record new dialogue within the comfortable ELLIS environment. Speech Acts is a new feature available only in Master Pronunciation. Master Tutor provides instructions for producing each phoneme to speakers of 28 languages: Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Chinese, Creole, Danish, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi Hmong, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Magyar, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Thai. Tongue Twisters contains over 100 randomly-ordered phrases spoken by male and female voices. Learners attempt to pronounce each linguistically-complex twister at their own pace. Context-sensitive help screens guide learners through the program with easy-to-follow instructions and graphics.