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Categorise activity: A simple drag and drop activity where the user drags text boxes to an appropriate category.

Identify all the nouns in the following extract. Click on all the words that you think are nouns; they will appear in the box below. You don't have to type anything but you can click in the box to edit your answers if you need to.

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Aliens are dropping grammar bombs on the PolyU. Shoot down the bombs by clicking the correct button at the bottom of the PolyU. (not working!)

The learner is dropped in the middle of a labyrinth. He has to move around by following grammatically correct patterns (S V O, etc.). Realisation is crap, concept is good.

A given category is given... a sentence appear. The learner has to shoot the words that are of the predefined gallery. Feedback is given in the form of sound, color (word turns green when correct and red when incorrect). When incorrect, additional feedback is given as to what category the word belongs to. Interface is poor, but concept is good.

With the mouse, drag and drop each name into the correct category.

Post office In the Post office game you have to stamp each word for syntactic function. Group function is stamped onto heads, subclause function onto the '['-bracket left of the first word in a given subclause. For instance: 'Anne (S) e (CO) seu (D) namorado (S) vão (Vaux) dizer (Vm), [ (Od) que (SUB) isso (S) é (Vm) fácil (Cs) .'

Each word needs to be dropped in the correct category. Decision needs to be made in a limited time.

Words falling out of the sky, the learner has to drag and drop them in the right category. (quite bad in terms of interfacing etc.)

Select the correct sentence among various options. The student click on a sentence, on clicking he is directed to another page, where he receives feedback. (quite bad in terms of navigation!).

The student is expected to click on the correct form of a verb. After a click, feedback is given in the message window.

"Drag and drop" activities practice the language focus in a lesson.

After you fill in a blank, click anywhere on the page to check your answer. All the incorrect letters will be erased leaving only the part of your answer which is correct. Click on the ? button to see the correct answer. (If you have typed in the correct answer, nothing will change.) In order to type in an answer, the cursor must be visible inside the blank. Use the TAB key or the mouse.

Simplistic Fill the blank exercise.

Use one of the words in the pull down menu to fill the gap. While doing this exercise, look for clues which tell you what kind of word is missing (adjective, noun, verb, adverb).

Words appear in the form of fridge magnets that the user has to put back in the right order.

A dialog is shown on the left. On the right, the same dialog is shown in the past form and the person has to provide the correct word form for verbs.

There are two verbs in this sentence. Each of the verbs describes an event. One event — Jill having a cup of coffee — is ‘inside’ another, longer event — Jill waiting for Jack. The larger event is described with the past progressive. The smaller event is described with the simple past.

Part One: use the words to make sentences with the same pattern as the example above.

Put the parts in order to form a sentence. When you think your answer is correct, click on "Check" to check your answer. If you get stuck, click on "Hint" to find out the next correct part.

"Which word doesn't belong?" activities practice the vocabulary in a unit.

A sentence appears in a shuffled format. The user has to put the sentence back in the right order by drag and dropping the pieces around.

One of the most common types of grammatical error in Hong Kong students' English is called 'agreement'. Agreement means that the verb changes depending on the type of noun it refers to. See below for examples. The grammar rules for agreement are reasonably clear and simple, and therefore, because these mistakes are so common in Hong Kong students' English, you can show that your English is superior if you follow the rules on this page.

Put the parts in order to form a sentence. Words are drag and dropped. Words in the incorrect position are in red and words in the correct position in black.

"Unscramble the sentence" activities practice the language focus in a lesson.

What do you see?" activities practice the vocabulary in a lesson.

Ajax script that let you rapidly and easily create a comic.

Pairs of images are presented in random order, initially with only their back visible. The user is required to match-up all of them in as few mouse clicks possible in order to win the game.

To play the user needs to direct your mouse and click on two separate instances of the card background. That will (when clicked upon) rotate and reveal two images. If those images are an exact match (an identical pair) they will remain on the screen while you can continue onto another pair, but if they are not they will rotate and hide again leaving you to test your luck and knowledge again.

Puzzle game. Pieces are in mixed order and you have to put them back at the right place. The task is facilitated by the presence of a semitransparent background representing the image.

Welcome to 'Where to Next?', an interactive game that takes its users on a tour of six locations in the British Isles. The rules are simple. Each location contains a group of English language questions and audio reports. Your 'tour' will involve listening to these audio reports and answering as many questions correctly as possible. Once you have finished a location you can progress to the next one on your tour. But beware! You only have a limited amount of cash. With every wrong answer, you lose some cash, and if you lose it all you must start again!

Multiple Choice Questions against the clock.

Shoot-out quiz. You have 30 seconds to score a goal.There are five questions.To score a goal you must answer three questions correctly within the time.If you get more than three questions wrong, the goalkeeper will save your shot.

Block Buster

A multichoice activity showing an image for each question. Feedback can be unique to each response or group of responses.

Shoot-out quiz. You have 30 seconds to score a goal.There are five questions.To score a goal you must answer three questions correctly within the time.If you get more than three questions wrong, the goalkeeper will save your shot.

The participant click on the "play icon" to hear the word, then he is asked to choose between 3 options.

Use the phonetic chart to learn the sounds of English. Then do a quiz to see how well you have learnt them.

The participant click on the "play icon" to hear the word, then he is asked to choose between 3 options.

A short sentence is played. The learner is asked to choose one of three options that are correct.

A basic Flash based MP3 player with various settings.

Some words are missing in the text. The list of these words are given and the student is asked to put the right word at the right spot.

Some words are missing in the text. The list of these words are given and the student is asked to put the right word at the right spot. Click on a word on the right handside, then click on one of the box in the text. If in the wrong box, gives immediate feedback on the error. Limited time. Score.

Essay along with a quiz on the essay. A button needs to be pressed to display the essay content. The essay is only shown for 5 minutes; it disappears when the time is over. The student is then asked to answer the question on the right-hanside of the page, which relates to the essay.

Use this applet to study the names of parts of an image, for instance body parts. In a first stage, move your mouse over the lobes' names to discover their location. In a second stage, check your knowledge by trying to move your mouse on the correct location for each of the four names.

For each word, an image of the word along with its letters in random order are presented. The participant has to enter the letters in the right order. Feedback on accuracy.

Show or Remove the labels on a picture. Useful at a stage where you try to acquire some new vocabulary.

Words appear in a grid, in different orientations, mixed with other letters randomly chosen. The participant has to locate in the grid words from a master list.

Words appear in a grid, in different orientations, mixed with other letters randomly chosen. The participant has to locate in the grid words from a master list.

Different labels are proposed on top of the screen, the task of the user is to drag and drop them at the correct emplacement on the picture (cues on expected position are given). Immediate feedback when a label is dropped onto a reserved position.

A simple drag and drop activity where the user connects labels to points on a image by dragging a pointer to the corresponding area on the image.

A simple drag and drop style activity where the user connects terms in a list to their matching descriptions, by dragging a pointer.

For each word, a letter is missing. The participant has to type it in. Feedback is given on the accuracy of the answers.

Similar to hotspot but here, the person has to enter the name for each entry box on the screen.

For each word, a letter is mispelled. The participant has to type in the correct spelling. Feedback is given on the accuracy of the answers.

A sentence with a missing word. A keyboard is presented with letters a-z. Points are earned for correct letters, removed for incorrect ones. The correct answer is repeated on the next screen, with button to get to see the word's definition.

Words appear in one of two colours. Each word of colour 1 has a matching word among the ones of colour 2. The user has to find these matching pairs.

Pictures are presented on the screen. The participant has to type in the correct name for each picture.

Connect each word on the left with the one of the right that has the opposite meaning.

Definitions are given and the participant has to put in the crossword grid a word matching each definition.

Definitions are given and the participant has to put in the crossword grid a word matching each definition.

GREAT interface.

Choose elements of a face to make up a picture.

• ajax script to crop/resize a picture that has been just uploaded.
• ajax script for assigning a taxonomy tag for each image.
• ajax script to choose color and text for the background and caption, speed, font, etc.

The part of a face or the body is choose and a portrait icon is made on-line.

Create an avatar in the south park style.

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Some *high quality* examples of how concordancer tools can be used to support learning.

On-line concordancer tool.

• online query for wordnet, century unabridged dict, webster 1928, webster 1913
• dictionaries
• speciality dictionaries
• grammars
• language resources

Includes a taxonomy of entries in wordplay content along with basic weird facts about words.

Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries - English

1000 objects under different angles and different lighting conditions. Royalty Free?

275 transitive and intransitive actions from different sources.

Black and white drawings of 520 common objects (including 174 pictures from the Snodgrass & Vanderwart set and other sources.)

Color images of many diagnostic color objects, e.g., a banana. Objects are shown in typical and atypical colors. There are also control sets of neutral color objects. The orignal set were used as stimuli in Naor-Raz, Tarr, & Kersten (2003)

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Ogden's largest category of words are things. Many are picturable and it is only natural that these words be pictured on the web in this example.. The Basic English Institute is seeking volunteer work in this area. Royalty free?

Each dictionary word is connected to a photo.

We have created a new set of stimuli based on the widely used line drawings of Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980). These 260 stimuli contain diagnostic texture and color information. Normative data (naming agreement and latencies, complexity, familiarity, imaginability) for these new stimuli have been collected (Rossion & Pourtois, 2004). Our data shows that surface information, color in particular, greatly facilitates object recognition.

This set of scenes were used as stimuli in the studies reported in Aginsky & Tarr (2000) set contains many variants of individual scenes. Variants were generated by either moving or changing the color of some element of the scene. The images are color PICT files.