Guide to Computer Room 15, 18 Bardwell Road

FAQs (Frequently asked questions)

• Logging on/off
• The Start menu
• Using CD-ROMs
• Listening & Speaking
• World Wide Web
• Email
• Saving your work
• Printing your work
• Teachers' questions

English language programs

Complete English course (grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, pronunciation, writing):

• 2-6 Reward (Elementary-Advanced) CD-ROM (Sorry, this page still under construction)

Grammar:

• 1-2 Grammar Quiz Game Elementary
• 1-2 Tense Buster Elementary
• 2-6 Reward (Elementary-Advanced) CD-ROM (Sorry, this page still under construction)
• 2-9 Error Terror
• 3-4 Tense Buster Low Intermediate
• 4-5 Tense Buster Intermediate
• 4-5 Grammar Exercises Intermediate
• 5-6 Tense Buster Upper Intermediate
• 7-9 Tense Buster Advanced

Vocabulary:

• 2-9 Word Invaders
• 2-9 Beat the Clock
• 2-9 Crossword Challenge
• 3-4 Business English Introduction
• 5-6 Topic Vocabulary The Media
• 5-6 Topic Vocabulary Occupations
• 5-6 Topic Vocabulary Transport
• 5-9 Longman Dictionary Of Contemporary English

Examinations:

• 3-4 Pass Your PET Paper 1 (old exam)
• 5-6 FCE Tutor
• 5-6 FCE Grammar ROM CD-ROM(s)
• 5-6 FCE Grammar ROM Specimen Exams CD-ROM(s)
• 5-6 FCE Creative Writing Disc
• 5-6 FCE Grammar Quiz Game
• 5-6 IELTS Tutor
• 5-6 Study Skills Success
• 5-6 Cambridge TOEFL Practice CD-ROM(s)
• 5-6 Longman CBT Preparation for TOEFL Test CD-ROM(s)
• 5-6 TOEFL Sampler CD-ROM(s)
• 6-7 CAE Tutor
• 6-7 CAE Preparation Paper 3 (old exam)
• 7-9 CPE Tutor
• 7-9 CPE Preparation Paper 3 (old exam)

Listening, speaking, reading, writing:

• 2-3 Listen! CD-ROM(s)
• 2-6 Reward (Elementary-Advanced) CD-ROM (Sorry, this page still under construction)
• 3-4 Small Talk CD-ROM(s)
• 3-4 Telephone Talk CD-ROM(s)
• 4-9 Newspaper Editor
• 5-6 Study Skills Success

Pronunciation:

• 1-9 Phonemic Alphabet
• 3-9 Stress & Rhythm

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Study Visits: Web Resources

Study Visits Web Resources Home page

Visits in Oxford

• Ashmolean Museum
• Modern Art, Oxford
• Natural History Museum

Visits outside Oxford

• Broughton Castle

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Language Practice

Grammar Study and Practice Activities

Articles: a, an, the (or no article)

(introduction, 3 study & practice pages & 4 test pages by Geoff Taylor)
(JavaScript needed for all tests.)

• Test yourself: a, an, the, or no article?
• Introduction: a, an and the
• Study and practice: a or an?
• Test yourself: a or an?
• Study and practice: the
• Test yourself: a, an or the?
• Study and practice: the or no the?
• Test yourself: a, an, the or no article?

Comparative and superlative adjectives

(1 study page and 5 exercises by Geoff Taylor)
(JavaScript needed for exercises.)

• Study page and practice: Comparing in English

Word formation (comparatives and superlatives):

• Forming Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Comparative adjectives: Practice

• Woman with Two Lovers, Part 1
• Woman with Two Lovers, Part 2
• Conversation in a computer shop

Superlative adjectives: Practice

• General Knowledge Quiz with Superlative Adjectives - 2002
  (JavaScript needed for quiz.)

Also try this popular game:

• Who Wants to be a Virtual Millionaire?
  World Records General Knowledge Quiz with superlative adjectives
  (JavaScript needed for quiz.)

"If" sentences (conditionals 0, 1 and 2)

(1 study page and 6 exercises by Julie Dyson)
(JavaScript needed for all exercises.)

• Grammar study: "If..." sentences (conditionals 0, 1 and 2)
• Zero (0) conditional exercises
• Vocabulary preparation for exercise 1
• Exercise 1
• Vocabulary preparation for exercise 2
• Exercise 2
• First (1st) conditional exercise
• Mixed (0, 1, 2) conditionals exercise

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Vocabulary Practice Activities

Films (Movies)

(Activities by Geoff Taylor) (JavaScript needed for all activities)

General knowledge quizzes

• Test your knowledge of the 2005 Oscar winners (multiple-choice quiz)
• Test your knowledge of famous quotations from films (match the quotes and the films)

See also:

• Film 2005 Geoff Taylor's collection of film Web links in the SCOOL Reading Room
• Film on the Internet Mark Jenning's 2001 collection of film Web links in the SCOOL Reading Room includes the above links and many more

Fair Trade

(2 tasks by Geoff Taylor, based on a text from Oxfam's Cool Planet website)
(JavaScript needed for exercises.)

• Small Farmers and International Trade:
  • Vocabulary preparation (Matching exercise)
  • The Issues (Gap-filling exercise)

Global Citizenship

(1 task by Geoff Taylor, using quotes taken from a database hosted by the World Beyond Borders organisation)
(JavaScript needed for exercise.)

• Quotations by famous people about Global Citizenship (crossword puzzle)

Oxford

(1 task by Geoff Taylor)
(JavaScript needed for exercise.)

• Oxford - crossword puzzle

Holidays and Festivals

Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year

(2 vocabulary practice exercises by Geoff Taylor) (JavaScript needed for all exercises.)

• Christmas and New Year Vocabulary Crossword 1
• Christmas and New Year Vocabulary Crossword 2

More information and language activities:

• Christmas and Boxing Day
• New Year

Halloween

(1 reading and vocabulary in context page and 3 practice exercises by Geoff Taylor)
(JavaScript needed for all exercises.)

• Reading and vocabulary in context
• The Story of Halloween
• Vocabulary quizzes
• Halloween people and animals (match the pictures and words)
• Halloween things and places (match the pictures and words)
• Halloween crossword puzzle (mixed subjects)

More information and language practice:

• Halloween festival page

Valentine's Day (February 14)

(2 practice exercises by Geoff Taylor) (JavaScript needed)

• Love and Marriage (Hangman spelling game)
• Stages of a Romance (gap-filling exercise)

More information and language activities:

• Valentine's Day (February 14) festival page

Sports and Games

• Football
  (1 study page and 1 practice exercise by Geoff Taylor)
  (JavaScript needed for the exercise.)
• Study: words in sentences
• Practice: crossword puzzle

Higher Education

(5 tasks by Felicity Stevens)
(JavaScript needed for all exercises.)

• Kinds of lessons; kinds of students - multiple-choice exercise
• Which verbs go with which nouns? - multiple-choice exercise
• Types of accommodation - matching exercise
• Qualifications 1 - matching exercise
• Qualifications 2 - multiple-choice exercise

Travel

(5 tasks by Rawdon Wyatt)
(JavaScript needed for all exercises.)

• Task 1: Getting to your destination - gap-fill exercise
• Task 2: At the airport - ordering exercise
• Task 3: At the hotel - ordering exercise
• Task 4: Find the mystery word - matching exercise
• Task 5: A different viewpoint - gap-fill exercise

The Weather

(1 study page and 3 exercises by Geoff Taylor)
(JavaScript needed for all exercises.)

• Weather vocabulary study and links page
• Extreme Weather - crossword puzzle
• Extreme Weather Conditions In Britain - gap-fill exercise
• Weather - Odd Word Out Quiz - multiple-choice exercise

• See also: International weather reports page: check the weather in Oxford, and in your country!

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Tetris

• Classically addictive computer game, a mega-hit in its time, invented by Alexey Pajitnov, from Russia:
• Tetris
• Tetris small (640x480 resolution)

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Practical Utilities

Mass Equivalents

• Translate pounds to/from kilogrammes

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Also...

Europe

• Introduction
• Learn about European geography (countries, capital cities and more)
• Test your knowledge of Europe
• Free stuff to download (maps and flags, software programs)