Verbots english user guide

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© 2008 Promethean Ltd Verbots Illustrated Verbs 1

Verbots Illustrated Verbs - English User Guide

Developed in Association with Promethean Ltd

The ideal tool for teaching, practising and memorizing verbs on all interactive

whiteboards.

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Tsunami Systems

Verbots Illustrated Verbs English

CD-ROM User Guide

For use on all interactive whiteboards An interactive CD-ROM featuring Verbots Illustrated Verbs with sound,

animation and colourful graphics to bring your language learning lessons to life.

Activities include:- � Using active tables to learn verbs

� Listening to native speaker examples � Remembering verb forms

� Speed recall � Speaking and listening

� Practising all verb forms

� Identification of reasons for usage � Team games

System Requirements Windows

Windows™ Vista, 98 SE, 2000/XP, NT, ME Intel P11 233Mhz, 64MB RAM

8MB graphics card, DirectX9 CD ROM drive, Sound card

Monitor Resolution 800x600 or higher Flash Player 8 or higher

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Contents

About Tsunami Systems 4

Tsunami Systems and Promethean 4 About Promethean 4

Tsunami Systems Illustrated Verbs 5 Activstudio Student Edition 5

Activstudio Student Edition Toolbox 5 Verbots Illustrated Verbs Flipchart 7

Function Icons in Illustrated Verbs 7 Menu Table 8

Verb Table 9 Other features 10

Verb Activities 11 Verb display 11

Using verbs 12

Activity suggestions 12 Write a sentence 13

Activity suggestions 13 Talk about… 14

Activity suggestions 14 Say it! 16

Activity suggestions 16 Verb race 17

Activity suggestions 17 About you!!! 18

Activity suggestions 18 Find the reason 20

Activity suggestions 20 Find out more and support 21

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About Tsunami Systems

Tsunami Systems is passionate about creating original language

learning

solutions for everyone.

They are dedicated to develop the most exciting, innovative and

entertaining concepts in language education, to inspire and transform

people’s lives.

Based in Barcelona it has strategic software and publishing partnerships

to ensure a growing worldwide distribution network, successfully

reaching language learners of all ages in over 70 countries across the

globe.

Tsunami Systems and Promethean

Tsunami Systems and Promethean have worked together to produce Illustrated Verbs, an interactive verb display and practice CD-Rom for use on

all interactive whiteboards including Promethean’s Activboards. The flipchart is compatible with both Activstudio and Activprimary software. This CD-Rom

is designed to accompany Tsunami Systems English Verbs book. The CD-ROM features over 100 Interactive verb tables, teacher’s display views and 8

different whole group activities for each one of the verbs. Altogether, there

are many hundreds of views for the English as a Foreign Language Teacher and Student to present, practice and learn English verbs.

About Promethean

Promethean is a global leader in interactive learning and assessment solutions. Its award-winning products enable educators

to prepare better lessons more quickly and more easily, improving learners' attention, motivation and learning. Promethean is

headquartered in the UK; its products are distributed through a

global network of partners in over 70 countries.

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Tsunami Systems Illustrated verbs.

The CD-ROM consists of the following:

• Activstudio Student Edition (installed automatically if required)

• Shockwave player (installed automatically if required) • Verbots Illustrated Verbs English flipchart

This software is in Promethean flipchart format. If you are an existing user of

Activprimary or Activstudio software, version 2.1 and above for Windows™, these files will open in your software.

In all other circumstances a Student Edition version of the Activsoftware can be installed so that it can be used on interactive whiteboards.

Activstudio Student Edition

Activstudio Student Edition is a “light” version of Promethean’s Activstudio that will “read” all flipcharts created in Activsoftware and allows the user to

view, use and interact with the flipcharts.

Activstudio Student Edition Toolbox

The main toolbox contains a selection of tools for you to create, select and manipulate different types of objects, allowing a dynamic learning environment on

the interactive whiteboard. You can move the toolbox around the screen by clicking on the black area on the

title bar. It floats on top of other opened applications so that it will always be visible on screen.

Menu – Use the Menu button to access key functions of Activstudio such as help, create a new flipchart and save Flipchart. This will work on any flipcharts you create

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yourself, however this save function cannot be used on Verbots flipcharts as they are published and therefore the original format remains the unchanged when

closed.

Flipchart – The Flipchart button allows you to show or hide your currently open Flipchart.

Pen Width – Use the Pen Width Selector to select a different size for your eraser, highlighter or pen.

Colour Palette – The Colour Palette allows you select different colours to use with the Pen or Highlighter Tool.

Previous Page and Next Page – Use the Next Page and Previous Page tools to

navigate through the pages in your Flipchart. Select/Marquee Tool – The Select/Marquee tool allows you to select objects on the page, and manipulate them by moving, sizing and rotating them.

Pen – Use the Pen Tool to annotate, write and draw.

Highlighter – Use the Highlighter Tool to draw over annotations, text, images and

other objects with a translucent pen mark. Eraser – The Eraser Tool allows you to remove any mistakes that you may have

made when annotating with the Pen or Highlighter.

Text Tool – Activstudio allows you to add text to your Flipcharts Clear Tool – Use the Clear Tool to remove objects from the page.

Fill Tool – Use the Fill Tool to add colour to your pages.

Camera Tool – Use the Camera Tool to capture an image of your Desktop, Flipchart and paused video frames or animations.

Undo – The Undo Tool reverses the last edit or command action performed in

Activstudio on the active Flipchart. Reveal – The Reveal Tool is designed to work in a similar way to the traditional

method of using a piece of paper to mask off parts of a presentation when using and overhead projector.

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Verbots Illustrated verbs Flipchart

The Flipchart contains over 100 frequently used verbs on the Menu table.

Function Icons in Illustrated Verbs English

Audio icon – Clicking on this will turn the audio on the verb

tables on and off.

View Icon – Clicking here will turn the verb formations, but

leave the pronouns and tense forms on view

Notes Icon – This icon gives access to the Teacher’s Notes

Reset Icon – Click here to reset the page

Menu Table Icon – This icon is present on every page except the

Menu page and will take you back to the main Menu Table.

Link to additional resources

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Menu table

There are two options for navigating the Menu table, you can scroll up and

down using the arrows at the bottom left hand corner, or click on the letters at the top of the Menu table to access verbs beginning with that letter.

Click on the Audio symbol next to the verb to hear the infinitive form of the verb and click on the Table symbol to link to go to the Verb table for that

verb.

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Verb table

The Verb table gives different tense forms of your verb of choice plus audio

recordings of all the forms and pronouns. Click on the pronoun or the verb form to hear an audio recording of that form.

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Other features

The left hand Reset button will reset the page and bring it back to its original state.

Click on the Audio symbol at the top right hand side of the page to close the Audio on that verb chart, click on the Audio symbol again to turn it back on.

Turning the Audio off allows you to circle or mark the chart with the Pen tool. Click on the Hide/reveal symbol to hide all the verb forms on the Verb table

enabling the students to discuss and complete sections of the table. Use the T - Text tool to type in verb forms and drag them to the appropriate

area. Click on the column headings to reveal the contents of one tense only. The

audio will function for that tense.

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Verb Activities

At the bottom of the page there are eight titled buttons to link to useful activity pages:

Verb display

The Verb display shows an image of the verbs selected on the left and allows

you to scroll though the forms of each verb. This is useful as a demonstration tool or as a reference tool for students.

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Using verbs

This page gives the main verb form and an illustration of the verb. On the

right hand side of the screen is a writing area for explanations in either English or the student’s first language to facilitate a clear understanding of

the meaning of the verb.

Activity suggestions

Use this page any way you like.

This is a demonstrating page to focus students' attention on any verb you want. By writing in the writing space you could use it to

introduce a particular verb or to demonstrate sentence construction. Use the top arrows to change the letters and the bottom arrows

to find all the verbs that begin with that letter.

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Write a sentence

The verb and verb form are displayed along with the illustration of your

choice of verb.

Activity Suggestions

• Divide the class into four teams and ask each team to think of four sentences using the target verb form. After they have

done this have a feedback discussion and then ask one member from each team to come up to the board to write up

their sentence. • Use this as a demonstration model when introducing a verb

form to give examples of sentence construction using the target verb form.

• Write four different sentences in the square, with the verb form missing and ask the students to choose which verb form should be

used from the central bank to complete the sentence.

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Talk about…

In this speaking exercise, students focus on why different verb

forms are used. It can also be used for presentation and/or revision discussions.

The Verb Selector displays whatever verb you choose and the six

grammar tabs enable the class to focus on the grammar area you want them to work in.

Choose one of the following grammar tabs-

Tab 1 - Present simple/continuous Tab 2 - Past continuous

Tab 3 - Past simple Tab 4 - Future

Tab 5 - Conditional

Tab 6 - Present Perfect

Activity suggestions • Select a verb using the Verb selector and then choose a

grammar tab you would like the class to focus on.

Click on the Random Selector icon to randomly select a prompt and then ask the students to use the verb in the

correct tense in the prompt context.

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e.g. Verb selector - arrest, Verb table grammar tab - Present

Simple/Continuous - happening now 'He's arresting the man with the red sweater.'

• Choose a verb and a grammar tab, write up a sentence in the

text box and then ask the students to decide which of the prompts matches the sentence.

• Use the prompts to teach, review or remind students of

sentence structures. Negotiate sentence structure and write sample sentences in the box at the top.

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Say it!

In the activity the teacher and students use the verb form from the

box to create sentences. This activity can be used as a game to practice discussion and/or writing skills either as a whole class or in

individual groups.


• Use the Random Selector icon to produce prompts and ask the students to call out sentences.

• This activity could also be used as a revision game. Divide the students into pairs, pairing up weaker students with stronger

ones, and then set the clock tool to whatever time you think is

suitable. Hit the Change button and then ask the learners to construct as many sentences as they can, using the verb

form, in the time you give them. You or the students could write up some of their answers in the boxes to display them

and discuss them with the rest of the class. • For weaker students write a sentence up on the board with

either the verbs form or the pronoun missing. Then hit the change button and decide which form completes the sentence.

Discuss why some of them work and some of them don't. e.g. I will build my own house.

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Verb race

All the words in the boxes are used to encourage students to say

something from one of the following Grammar key tense categories.

Grammar Key 1. Present simple 2. Present continuous

3. Past simple 4. Past continuous 5. Future 6. Conditional

7. Present perfect


Divide the class into two teams the blue team and the

range team. This activity is best done with the whole class as the pace needs to be quick. Ask the first team to pick a

number and then produce a phrase or sentence using the correct grammar (see above). The other team judges whether

the sentence is correct. If it is correct click on either the blue or the orange hexagon to mark the main hexagon.

The winning team is the one to make a straight line.

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About you!!!

This activity is to give the students speaking practice using the

target language. Use the writing space for the students or to write up a sentence.

• The students take it in turns to tell the other students

something about themselves using both the target language and the form of the grammar you want them to work on. The

class then vote individually on whether they think the information the student has given is true or false.

• Play the game in the same way as above, but divide the class

into groups. The teams can ask questions to try to discover

more information from the student making the statement. The student can only reply 'Yes' or 'No' to the class. Assign one

voting device to each group and use the space at the bottom of the board to write up the scores. This enables the groups to

discuss between themselves and gives more speaking practice to the student making the statement.

• Give the students some sentences about yourself or a general

knowledge quiz using the target language. You could and

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write them up on the board if necessary. Then ask the

students to guess whether they're 'True' or 'False'.

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Find the reason

This activity focuses on reading and negotiating the reason for using

one of the tenses in the target language.

The choices A to F encourage the students to match a sentence to the reasons why you would use it.

If you don't have Activote ask for a show of hands.


• Write a sentence using one of the tenses in the target language. Use Learner response systems (Voting) and ask the

students to vote on which of the reasons matches the

sentences. • You can ask pairs of advanced students to prepare their own

sentences. They can take it in turns to write up or read their sentences and then ask the other students to vote for the

correct meaning.

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