English Mastery A “How To” guide… “A comprehensive learning tool for students of English as a second language. Allows students to record and work with living sound on a computer.” A “How To” guide…

To Access English Mastery 1 2 1. Double click on the ESL Folder on the Desktop. 2. Double click on the English Mastery icon. 3. Select “FC,Test” and click on Start. 3

English Mastery Main Screen Select a series to begin. Alania Series A,B&C cover subjects ranging from simple verbs to infinitives & gerunds. Americana lessons make grammar fun and interesting by focusing their stories on American culture. Alania Series A Alania Series B Alania Series C Americana

Select a unit within your desired series. Alania Series A, B, C Americana Select a unit within your desired series.

Click on a lesson to get started. Begin A Lesson Click on a lesson to get started. Select an activity. Note: A dialog box will open at the beginning of each exercise explaining how to complete that lesson.

Audio Lab Improve your listening skills, speaking, pronunciation and intonation. Listen to real human speech and practice the text in sentences or phrases. Then repeat what you hear and read the text on the screen or listen without seeing the text. Next, record your voice and then compare your recording to the original. Finally, you can re-record and practice until you are satisfied.

Audio Lab Listening, speaking & pronunciation. In the AudioLab exercise you are given two viewing options. 2. Focus on listening and speaking skills: listen to and read the text and also by recording your voice. 1. Focus on listening comprehension: listen to the story while seeing a picture.

Word Lab Learn new vocabulary by reading, hearing and repeating words or phrases in context. WordLab will help you develop new vocabulary by reading, hearing, and repeating words or phrases in a lesson. Each passage has highlighted vocabulary words. Click on the highlighted word to hear the word and learn the definition. Record your voice to practice these words.

Crossword Listening, vocabulary and spelling. The CrossWord exercise helps improve your listening, word recognition, and spelling. You will receive a hint at the top of the screen for each vocabulary word. Type the correct word in the highlighted space. All words and phrases in the puzzle are from the current lesson.

Audio Write Listening, spelling & dictation. The AudioWrite exercise helps improve listening comprehension and writing. Listen to the story without seeing the text on the screen. Press the button to hear the story sentence by sentence. When you are ready, begin typing the story.

SoundSort Audio puzzle for improving listening, comprehension, recognition and recall. The SoundSort exercise will improve your listening and recognition skills, by putting sentences and phrases in the correct order. You will see 2 columns of bars. Each bar represents a portion of audio. Put the story in order by listening to each excerpt of audio in the “Mixed Order” column and then transferring it over to the “Correct Order column.” Click on any bar and press to hear that phrase.

You will hear a story and be asked to fill in the blanks. TextLab Helping with difficult points of grammar, vocabulary development, and reading skills. Click on the TextLab button to receive a dialog box giving you a choice of fill-in-the-blank activities (Vocabulary Practice, Grammar Practice, etc.). You will hear a story and be asked to fill in the blanks.

TestLab & Grammar TestLab questions let you discover how well you understand each lesson. TestLab has four kinds of exercises: Multiple Choice Fill-in-the-Blank Word Order Two-Part Questions

Exiting English Mastery To exit the program click Exit or Quit Finally, select YES. S. Cotter 6/22/06