Instructions

Software for
Interac�ve Whiteboards
 Instructions
for Interactive Whiteboard Software

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 Contents
Let’s start 2

General Navigation 4

Tools 5

Presentations 7

Video 9

Vocabulary 12

Flashcards 13

Activities 15

Listening comprehension 16

Justification 17

Notes 18

General tips 19
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Let’s start
The contents screen is very easy to use and navigate. The only thing that you have to do is
to choose the module you want to go to and simply press on the module button with the stylus.

Press on a module
button to choose it

Choose a lesson from the Student’s Book by

pressing a lesson button.

Choose a lesson from the Workbook by

pressing the “WB” button.

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interactive
e-Book
When you have the pages
of the book on the screen,
you can select any activity
by pressing on it. You can
also press on the stickers
with extra material.

Press the left and right arrows to quickly flip through the
pages of the Student’s Book or the Workbook. You can
move back and forth in the pages of the selected unit.

You can choose another unit or module from the

contents menu.

extra
material

The sticker links allow

easy access to listening
transcripts, pairwork
activities, games and the 3
grammar reference.
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General Navigation

At the bottom of the

screen you can find
all the buttons you will
need for navigation
and the main
functions.

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1. Contents button 5. Previous and Next button

2. Interactive e-Book button 6. Vocabulary button
3. Tools button 7. Show Text button
4. Notes button 8. Play Animation/Video button
9. Play/Pause and Stop button

Listen button Vocabulary List button

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Justification button Grammar button
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Tools

The Tools bar is movable to any

place on the screen. You can grab
it from its “TOOLS” title and drag it
wherever it suits for you. You can
also rotate the bar by pressing on
the “rotate” button.

Rotate button

With any tool (except the eraser) you can press on a line,
rectangle or circle and while you keep pressing it, you
can move it to another place on the screen.

Press the F1 button on the PC’s keyboard or the Close

button on the Tools bar to hide the tools. 5
Close button
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Circle
Pen Press the circle tool
Press on the pen tool and choose between a
to write or draw lines transparent circle and a
on the screen. You can filled circle. Then press
write anywhere you and drag to create the
want. circle.

Erase
Press on the eraser tool
Pen width to choose between the
Press on the pen width
eraser and the recycle
tool to choose from
bin. When you have the
three different sizes for
eraser you can press on
the pen and the outlines
anything that you created
of boxes and circles.
with the Tools bar on
the screen and delete it.
Choose the recycle bin to
erase everything in just
one stroke.
Colour
Press on the colour tool
to choose the colour that Magnifier
you will use for the pen, Press on the magnifier
the box or the circle. tool and then somewhere
Choose between black, on the screen to magnify
blue and red or pick up that area. Press again
yellow to make your pen on the magnifier tool to
a transparent marker. return to normal view.

Rectangle Screen
Press the rectangle tool Press the screen tool to
and choose between a hide everything on the
transparent rectangle screen. You can press
and a filled rectangle. on this white screen and
Then press and drag to drag it left, right, up or
6 down to reveal part of
create the rectangle.
the whiteboard content.
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Presentations

The presentations appear with no text as there needs to be an analysis of

the pictures and a discussion with the Ss in order to ensure that they have
a clear understanding of the story. Ss could be asked to guess and write
what the characters may be thinking.

Press on the ‘play’ button

to hear the recording of
the presentation without
seeing the text. This way
students can benefit from
listening to the text without
having to write or read.

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Press the ‘show text’ button

for the text to appear.

The sentences / bubbles are highlighted the moment they are heard. When
you are reading the text you have the option of hearing a particular sentence
or word by pressing on that specific part.

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Video

When you watch an

animation or video
clip, you can pause
the action with the
“pause” button on the
left side at the bottom.

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You can press on the

“duration” bar while
playing the clip or in
pause mode to move to
any part of the animation
or the video clip.

In some series, the functionality differs. For example in ‘Channel your English’ you
can read the dialogue while watching the video.

If you press the ‘show text’ button you

can see the text of the video, and while
the video is being played the text scrolls
in sync with it.

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Subtitles

For young learners,

you can display
the subtitles of the
animation or video clip
by pressing on the
“Subtitles On” button.

Press on the same

button to hide them.

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Vocabulary

When the vocabulary of

each lesson appears, all
text is hidden. Press on the
“show text” button to reveal
it and press on the same
button again to hide all text.

Press the “listen” button

next to each picture to listen
to the correct pronunciation
of the word or press on the
picture to go to Flashcard
mode.

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Flashcards

Press on the “play”

button to listen to the
correct pronunciation
of the word. Press on
the “show text” button
to reveal the text and
press on the same
button again to hide it.

Under the picture there is an empty space

for students to write the word. There is no
need to open the Tools bar and pick up
the pen. The flashcard is waiting for your
students with a blue pen ready for writing.
Press on the eraser on the right to clean
the writing area.

When you have finished, you can press on the

“return” button and go back to the vocabulary of
the lesson to pick up another flashcard.

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If you want to use the

full deck of flashcards
for practice, press on
the “Vocabulary List”
button to choose any
word you like from the
complete wordlist.

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Activities
All the activities include answers. To display the answers, press on the area
where the answer should be. If you press on an answer again, it will hide itself.
The answer can be a text, a shape, like a circle, or a symbol.

For “Match” activities, press

on the small circles to display
the answers.

The pencil symbol found at

the corner of some exercises
indicates personal response
activities guidance to these
activities is provided to
students by the teacher.

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Listening comprehension

When it takes a while to listen to the phrase, a bar is displayed over

the navigation buttons. You can pause the sound or choose to listen to
just a part of the phrase by pressing on the bar.
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Justification

In some activities, you

will see a button with a
question mark next to the
space for each answer.
This is the “justification”
button. Press on it and a
pop up box will appear
containing part of the text
and the justification of
the answer highlighted
for the students.

You can press on this box

and drag it wherever you
want on the screen or just
press anywhere outside the
box to close it.

For some listening

comprehension activities,
the justification box has a
“play” button attached for
immediate replay.

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Notes
You can also use the interactive whiteboard as a normal whiteboard in order to write
notes, tips, ideas or whatever else you want for your students.

Press the Notes button on the whiteboard or the

‘F2’ button on the PC’s keyboard and the white
screen will appear.

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General Tips
You can also use your whiteboard to:

Brainstorm

Take notes

Reinforce skills by using on-line interactive web sites

Use the highlighter tool to highlight parts of speech such as

nouns, verbs, etc

Complete charts

Encourage Ss’ participation by allowing them to write what

they have learned

Play songs or videos

Execute effective listening activities, etc

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