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Products - English as a Second
Language (ESL)
Secondary School
The
following is a short description of some of our leading programs:
Please click on the
program of your choice: (or scroll down)
(If
you can't find the program you are looking for please E-mail
us and we will find it for you.)
My Canada Software
Ellis & Master Pronunciation
Teen Talk Canada
Phonics
Alive
English
Discoveries
Active
Reading
Real World Reading Skills
Developing Critical Thinking Skills For Effective
Reading
Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Upper
Grades
Talk Now
Who Is Oscar Lake?
Connected Speech
Issues in English 2
Tense Buster
Grammar Mastery II
StartWrite - Handwriting the right way
The Alphabet
Show Me Spelling
Spelling Fusion
Interactive Picture Dictionary
Dollars & Cents
Counting Coins
Live Action English
Business Writing
TOEFL iBT
MindGame
Measuring Up
Tense Buster
The popular Tense Buster
programs, now used in more than 70 countries worldwide, help
students tackle selected grammar areas effectively and enjoyably.
Each unit takes students through a logical progression from
presentation to concept checking, a grammar rule, practice
and testing exercises. All units come with integrated vocabulary
work, learner training modules and an Authoring
Kit that lets you add your own material and adapt
the courses to the exact needs of your students.
- Level-beginner to advanced.
- System
requirements: PC running Windows 98 +, NT,
2000, XP, Vista.
For more detailed information
and a demo click HERE
Teentalk
Canada is an innovative new multimedia software program
that introduces the user to 19 Canadian teenagers and various
aspects of everyday life. Using a variety of interactive exercises
students will master reading, writing, grammar, speaking and
listening skills. The program is suitable for beginner to
high-intermediate students.
System requirements: PC 98+
The
program is regularly priced at $99.00.
We are currently running a promotion to introduce Teentalk
Canada.
Single copy: $75.00
Lab packs of 5: $249.00
Network: $799.00
For
more detailed information click here
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Developing Critical Thinking
Skills For Effective Reading
Helps students
improve reading comprehension.
System requirements:
PC running Windows 98+.
For more information click here
Developing Critical Thinking
Skills for Upper Grades
Helps students improve reading comprehension with longer and
more challenging texts.
System requirements:
PC running Windows 98+.
For more information click here.
Show Me Spelling
Functional spelling for low level readers
This program allows students to succeed at spelling, while learning
up to 600 words independently! It is Appropriate for any age
and a wide range of ability levels. Includes instruction and
quiz modes.
In
the instruction mode, you create a spelling list for each
student, or choose from dozens of preselected lists. You can
adjust the difficulty of the program by offering students
helpful spelling clues. If the student is still stumped, she
can choose the "Show Me" option. Here, a short animated movie
will present the correct spelling. Incorrect responses don't
appear so students can't give wrong answers. This allows for
extended independent work by those with limited spelling skills.
You can select an option that also plays a "celebration" movie
when a student spells a word correctly.
The quiz mode lets you implement a pre-and post-test strategy to
evaluate student progress. You can easily save student word
lists and quiz scores.
For
Demo click here
StartWrite
is a complete software that teaches handwriting skills. The
program makes teaching handwriting and good penmanship skills
easy and saves an enormous amount of preparation time.
All you do is type letters, words, numbers, etc., on the page.
The letters appear on the screen in a dot format on the triple-guide
line. You can change the size of the letters, shading of the
letters (so they print out light or dark or shades in between),
turn on or off the guide lines and arrow strokes (beginning
points), check spelling with a 100,000 spell checker, print
in landscape or portrait and place clip art on the page in
black & white or color. It only takes minutes to create
a page. Save your page for later use.
- Level-beginner.
- System
requirements: PC 98+ or Mac.
- Price
$75.00 + shipping and applicable taxes. Licence for up to
50 users (A board licence) $595.00.
For more detailed information and a demo click
HERE
Issues in English 2
North
American Version
Designed for learners
aged 12 to adult, and featuring over 700 hours of interactive
vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, reading and writing activities,
this program is essential for school, college, community and
home-based learners. The exercises are based on 32 video clips
grouped into eight topics, at 4 levels from Beginner to Advanced.
Topics are of of high interest to
young adults/adults and include Sports, Media, Technology,
Languages, Immigration, Education to name a few. The program responds to the learner's input with help and feedback.
Worksheets, answer sheets, test results and tutorials can
be printed directly from the program and used in any learning
environment. Student tracking and reporting are also part
of this complete package, all on one CD.
System
requirements: Windows 98 +, NT,
2000, XP, Vista
For more detailed information and a demo click
HERE
Live Action English
Live Action English Interactive is an exciting multimedia program
that uses real movies to teach English. The program consists
of 12 units that present a sequence of imperative sentence
describing a familiar activity. Using a variety of exercises
the students will practice Listening, Reading, Writing and
Vocabulary.
Level Beginner & Intermediate
For more detailed information and a demo click HERE
Real World Reading Skills
Interactive exercises
help students improve their English language and literacy
skills.
System
requirements: PC running Windows 98 +, NT,
2000, XP, Vista
For more information click here
Spelling Fusion
Beginner and Intermediate
levels. Teaches spelling, pronunciation and sight recognition
of over 3500 words that are arranged in topics.
System
requirements: PC running Windows
98 +, NT, 2000, XP, Vista.
For more information click here
Dollars & Cents
Three multimedia software programs present a well-rounded money management
curriculum that progresses in difficulty. Includes First
Money, Spending Money and Making Change. (Canadian or
American dollars)
For more detailed information click here
The Alphabet
An
exciting new program designed specifically for young adults
and adult literacy and beginner ESL students.
Program
highlights:
"[The
Alphabet] is well constructed, logical in its organisation
and provides useful support for learners who are not confident
with written texts or using a computer. Highly recommended."
Karen Bryant. Interchange.
"I
have watched a young Middle-Eastern woman who has never been
to school teach herself the strange shapes, sounds and names
of the Roman alphabet - and all of this using a computer!"
Pam McKean. VATME Newsletter.
System
requirements: Windows 98 +, NT,
2000, XP, Vista
PRICES:
1
Computer station $95.00
5
Computer stations $185.00
10
Computer stations $280.00
20
Computer stations $375.00
Active Reading?
Active
Reading is a comprehensive life skills software program in
six levels.
All units come with
integrated vocabulary work, instant feedback, paper based
worksheets.
An authoring option
which allows instructors to change the activities or add their
own material to suit student needs is also available.
- Level-beginner
to advanced.
- System
requirements: PC running Windows 98 +,
NT, 2000, XP, Vista.
Online version can run on MAC
For more detailed information and a
demo click HERE
Business
Writing
Business Writing is
aimed at all Intermediate - Advanced level learners who need
to prepare for the business world.
System requirements:
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/VISTA and Online
For
more detailed information click HERE.
Interactive Picture Dictionary
 Over 800 head words
arranged in 6 main groups and 40 topics.
Teaches and tests
the spelling of singular and plural forms of over 800
English words.
Develops vocabulary
skills in context.
Includes spelling
tests and vocabulary recognition tests for every topic.
Provides for key words:
photo
pronunciation
spoken and written
context sentence
three spelling activities
for each of the singular and plural word forms
type the missing
letters
type the word from
memory
type the word in
new context sentences
number of syllables
per word as an aid for pronunciation.
Authorable: Customise the program by adding word lists (singular
and plural word, context sentence, number of syllables per
word). The program automatically generates the exercises for
filling in the missing letters, typing the words from memory
and the appropriate spoken feedback.
System
requirements: Windows 98 +, NT,
2000, XP, Vista
Measuring Up
Designed for adult numeracy, basic education, continuing education
learners.
Teaches basic numeracy skills for measurement in the areas of:
*fractions
*decimals
*reading scales
*metric units
Teaches using integrated modelling/demonstration and practice activities.
Includes thirteen applied assessment tasks.
Provides links from the applied assessment tasks to the teaching
and practice activities.
System
requirements: Windows 98 +, NT,
2000, XP, Vista
Talk Now
This is an excitingly different language learning series.
Talk Now! uses games and quizzes as a basis for making the
learning process fun and relaxing. There's no better way to
teach an old dog new tricks and this fun element of the program
means that your fears are forgotten as you absorb words and
phrases without even realising you are learning them.
- Level: Beginner.
- Age: 8 - adult.
- System requirements: Windows 98+ OR Mac OS System 7 or above
- sound card, color display, CD-ROM drive, speaker or
headphones, mouse.
Price:
Educational
Version: The program is available for the following site
license prices: 1 station - $75.00, 5 stations - $199.95,
10 stations- $349.00, 20 stations - $595.00. Please contact
us for information about network prices.
For more detailed information - click here
 Prepares
ESL students for the Test of English as a Foreign Language
(TOEFL). Helps students increase their TOEFL scores, and strengthens
their English language skills.
System
requirements: PC running Windows
98 +, NT, 2000, XP, Vista.
Price:
$69.95, Please contact us for information about network prices.
For more detailed information click here
Grammar Mastery II
It is a powerful Teaching
tool which helps ESL students master the fundamentals of English
grammar. By addressing the most persistent problems ESL students
face in learning English grammar, Grammar Mastery II gives
students the review and extra practice so essential to language
learning.
System requirements - PC 95+
Connected Speech
At last! A pronunciation program unlike any other!
Connected
Speech is based on natural informal speech. It focuses on
the suprasegmental features of English, with mark up, recording,
practice activities, tests and tutorials. It has speech recognition
that gives specific feedback on the supragmental features
of the learner's production.
There are 3 levels from Lower Intermediate to Advanced. The
focus of Connected Speech is on those aspects of pronunciation
that have the greatest effect on clear and effective communication.
System
requirements: Windows 98 +, NT,
2000, XP, Vista
For
more detailed information click here
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MindGame
MindGame is a highly enjoyable, easy-to-use game designed by the
world-famous author Mario Rinvolucri. Ideal in the classroom,
the self-access centre, on the network or at home, MindGame
is suitable for players aged eight to 80, who can play either
against each other or against the computer. MindGame is extremely
effective for learning finite language areas and comes with
a free Authoring Kit, which allows you to add games that are
specifically designed for your own students.
- Level-beginner-intermediate-advanced.
ELLIS
Whether
your students are starting to learn English and need to know
how to shop for food or they are advanced students trying
to improve their TOEFL score, ELLIS should be part of your
ESL solution. ELLIS offers as much to the ESL instructor as
it does to the learner. ELLIS provides a complete classroom
support system, including an Instructor Guide, Learner Workbook
and Technical Manual. On-line mastery tests and an integrated
record keeper track student progress, so teachers can concentrate
on individual needs. Here's what ESL instructors are saying
about ELLIS: "Students' TOEFL marks and their attitude and
motivation toward learning have improved since we implemented
ELLIS. We have also seen a rise in teacher motivation." "Of
the five products that I have seen on the market today, ELLIS
is not only the most stunning visually, it is also the most
solid pedagogically." "ELLIS is a dream come true. It provides
endless practice that frees my time to do more individualized
work with the students." Since its 1993 release, CALI's ELLIS
has established itself as the premiere multimedia software
for learners of English as a second and foreign language.
Reviews of ELLIS in magazines such as Technology and Learning
and Multimedia Today say "ELLIS is vast and sophisticated."
and " Its flexibility, excellent use of multimedia, and sheer
volume make it a smart investment for the technology-equipped
classroom."
There
are five products that form the ELLIS Suite offering
a complete line of ESL products for any ESL learner, including
yours. The products are:
Intro, Middle Mastery, Senior Mastery, Master Pronunciation
and Placement test.
Click on the following, for more information regarding specific
programs:
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