wordready academic english guide 1.0.1.3
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WORDREADYis designed to help you to learn a specially-prepared list of academic
vocabulary1. It presents, practises, revises and extends your knowledge of the vocabulary
over a period of time.
WORDREADYdecides which words to learn based on the texts that you use with it. These
texts can be anything you like, but ideally you should choose the kind of texts that you need
to read on your course of study. You simply copy and paste the texts into WORDREADY,
then answer the questions and do the exercises. The more you use WORDREADY, the
more it learns about you and the more it can help you.
Remember, WORDREADY is individualised to YOU, so don't share your password with
anyone or you will miss out on some exercises and words, and revision will be confusing.
WORDREADYcan be used from any internet-enabled computer by going to
http://www.L2.co.uk/AcademicEnglish/ .
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SET UP A NEW ACCOUNT (the first time you use the WORDREADY)
In USERNAME, put in your OFFICIAL email address (the one you use with your
university, school or college) - you CANNOT set up an account with any other email
address.
Type in a PASSWORD of your choice (6 to 20 characters long)
Click Continue - this will take you to the next page.
Type in the PASSWORD again to confirm it.
Type in your FIRST and LASTNAMES.
From the drop-down menu choose your FIRST LANGUAGE (if it is not listed please
tell your tutor to tell us about it, choose English for now).
From the drop-down menu choose which TIMEZONE you are in.
Check the box to show you have agreed to the Terms of Use.
Click Continue
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CONFIRMATION EMAIL
We will then send you an email asking you to click a link to confirm that you want to
start using WORDREADY. CHECK your OFFICIAL email account (our email maygo into your spam or junk folder).
Click on the link in this email to start using your WORDREADY account.
SIGN IN (each time you use WORDREADY)
Sign in with your OFFICIAL email address and your PASSWORD.If you forget your password, CLICK Get new password and one will be sent to
your OFFICIAL email address.
Once you have signed in to WORDREADYyou will arrive at the START SCREEN where you
will be able to access 4 different sections:
Analyse Texts is where you go to study texts that interest you. Cut and paste texts into
WORDREADY and do the exercises that are created for you.
Learn Words is the section where you do a wide variety of exercises on the words you are
learning. These get more challenging as your knowledge of word families2 increases.
My Profile shows your progress so far in WORDREADY. This is also where you can browse
any of the words in the vocabulary list.
The Support section allows you to contact us with suggestions for improvement, to report a
problem or to ask questions about WORDREADY. Please get in touch if there is anything
we can do for you!
You now know enough to start using WORDREADY!
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The first time you arrive at the START SCREEN,WORDREADYwill suggest you start with
Analyse Texts.
ANALYSE TEXTS
Click on Analyse Texts and COPY and PASTE a text into the empty Analyse Text box.
Find a text (or part of a text) that you are interested in or need to study (between 10
and 1,000 words 200 to 600 word texts are recommended). You may find this on
the internet or it may be a text that your tutor has suggested.
SELECT the text, COPY it and then PASTE it into WORDREADY.
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Just below the middle of the text you will see how many words there are in your text.
CLICKAnalyse Text to continue.
At this point the text will have been given a title and be highlighted in a number of ways.
The title chosen is simply the first few words of the text. CLICK the Title and you will be
able to change it to a Title of your choice. This will make this text easier to recognise later.
Key to text highlighting:
Bold pinkwords are those that have been chosen from the vocabulary list for you to
learn (there will usually be around 10 of them).
Bluewords (also in the vocabulary list) will be learnt later as they are less frequently
used.
Regular words are from the first 1,000 most frequent words of English.
Italicisedwords are from the second 1,000 most frequent words of English
Grey words are less frequent, technical and semi-technical words.
Once you have analysed a text, it will appear in a list of texts in the Analyse Texts section
ofWORDREADY. These can be:
Used again click once.
Have their title changed - click twice and type the new title.
Deleted - click once and then click the Delete button.
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You can also see a list of the word families2 highlighted to the right of the text.
Note: Once you have been using WORDREADYfor some time, you will begin to see
Orangewords (ones that you are already learning) and Greenwords (ones that you know
well) in the texts.
When you CLICK on a Pink word, all of the words from the word family2 are highlighted
(in the example below the word simulated was clicked on). Because simulated is the
past participle of the verb simulate, all other forms of the verb (infinitive, 3rd person
singular and present participle) are highlighted in a slightly lighter pink (see simulate, the
infinitive, below). Other words in the family2 that are other parts of speech (adjective,
adverb, noun or other) will be shown with a border round them (see simulator, which is a
noun, below).
You will also see that a question appears asking about the word you clicked. This is the first
of several questions about the highlighted word.
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WORDREADY uses the answers to the questions about words
from your chosen texts to decide the order in which you will
learn the words from the vocabulary list. It is important to
answer all these questions, so that WORDREADY can learnwhich words are the most important to you.
The first question asks you which is the Part of Speech
(adjective, adverb, noun, etc.)ofthe word you clicked.
When you have selected the correct answer, the Next button
will become available.
After each question CLICK the Next button to
move on.
The next question asks you to choose the best definition
from a list of 5. Words can have up to 5 definitions, so all
5 of them could be correct for the word but we want to
know which is the best definition, in the context in your
text.
If there is only 1 correct answer then it will turn
green when you choose it and all the other incorrect
answers will become grey.
If there is more than 1 correct answer, then when you
choose one all incorrect answers will turn grey. Theanswers that remain yellow are possible correct
answers. Choose the best one.
If a word has more than 1 possible correct answer, we
will ask you to look at a list of example sentences using
the word and decide which one uses the word with a
meaning that is closest to the one in your text. Choose
the one you think best and click the Save button.
If the example sentence you have chosen and the
definition match each other, then we will store your
answer, and display your choices. The word will change
from bold to regular text. If they dont match we will ask
you a further question.
Each word entry will show you:
How to spell the word.
How to say the word with phonetic
transcription and audio clip (CLICKPlay).
The part of speech.
The definition(s) and example sentence(s).
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Below the summary of the word, you will also see a list of
all the members of the word family2 that the word belongs
to. The size of each word shows the relative frequency of
use in English. The bigger the word the more often it isused.
Clicking on the other members of the word family2 will
show you the entry for that word.
Once you have completed the questions on all pink words in the text, further exercises
become available. CLICK the button Do exercises to start these. Once these exercises
have been completed, the words are stored and you will see these words later in exercises
in the Learn Words section.
After you have been using it for a few days, WORDREADYwill suggest going to Learn
Words when you sign in. This means that there are words that you have covered in texts
that are ready for you to revise and extend your knowledge of them. However, you can go
to Learn Words at any time. If there are no words ready for you to revise then
WORDREADYwill choose which words you should learn next and give you a set of exercises
to introduce them to you.
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Teacher Tools
If you are using WORDREADY as part of a course, your tutor will follow your progress in
WORDREADY and will see:
How many texts you have analysed.
How many words from those texts you have done exercises with.
How well your vocabulary learning is going overall.
When you last used WORDREADY.
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Notes
1. Based on Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List (AWL). This list contains the most
important words (after the first 2,000 most frequent) that you need to know if you arestudying or reading academic texts in English. The list is based on word families (see note
2. below).
2. A 'word family' is a set of related words including all the different parts of speech and
forms that 'word' can have. WORDREADY groups words into families.