Oxford Practice Grammar & Oxford Word Skills

Oxford Practice Grammar

 Oxford Practice Grammar by George Yule is a three level English practice grammar for classroom and self-study with clear explanation and lots of extra practice. Each level has interactive practice boost CD/ROM. It requires internet connection. There are two options, Click here to access practice boost CD/ROM and Single-click here to access your practice.

As it is already stated that it is software, meaning it is small, easy to use and easily distributable among students via CD or other storage devices. There is no need of installation for this software and works on any modern Operating Systems. It is therefore a very beneficial tool for teachers and students alike.

Listen and speak: improve your listening and speaking. There are two sections, listening practice and dialogues. In the listening practice section, listen to the recording and choose the best answer. There are five sets of ten questions. In the dialogues sections, join in a conversation. There are twenty dialogues.

Read and write: improve your reading and writing. There are two paragraphs for each unit in the book. Read the paragraphs, find the mistakes and correct them.

Test and Review: test your grammar. There are four tests. Each test has fifty questions. Do the test, look at your results and try the test again. You can print out your results and identify grammar topics to study on your own or with your teacher.

Oxford Word Skills

Oxford Word Skills has 80 units of exercises which are divided among 12 headings. Each heading is neatly divided by the use of the words in different context like, the body, work and finance, leisure & lifestyle, written or spoken English, etc. It helps students in their personal needs of learning English. The exercises are designed for advanced level learners so as to being clear who can or should use these lessons.

The exercises are quite simple to follow. All exercises contain paragraphs or sentences with audio clips so students can listen to the texts while reading through them. This helps not only learning vocabulary and their uses but also proper pronunciations of the said text. After going through the text comes the testing phase of the exercises. These are simple point and click or click and drag based tasks which are easy to understand. There are two levels of exercises according to their level of difficulty. The harder level consists of typing in correct words where blank.

OWS is a great practicing platform for people who would like to improve their vocabulary. People with specific interests like finance can work on words related to their topic of interest. Therefore it can be used for teaching English for Specific Purposes. The whole software is based on communicative language teaching where the use or function of language is the basis of English Learning. Teachers and students can also use OWS for learning general English. Students can find the liberty to go through the exercises without the usual guidance of teachers as the tasks are simplified with instructions and audio clips. The exercises also include grammar based tasks with basic word formations and types.