CELIA Mac vocabulary Listing

Files from TESOL's CALL-IS Macintosh Library. Questions may be
sent to Deborah.Healey@orst.edu.

Shareware programs are those where you pay the author if you find the program useful. Payment information is usually found when you start up the program. Freeware programs are freely copiable.

Ars Magnaª + files

arsmagna.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocab, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 235
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Takes an input word or phase and generates all possible anagrams. Millions and millions of them if given too many words.

Choicemaster data files-various

choicemstr-data-voc.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: Choicemaster data files
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 72
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by Don Friend; material from Monique LaPierre and Don Friend. Use with Choicemaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Various vocabulary exercises.

CrossMaster v0.4 + docs

crossmaster.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: teacher
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 132
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Create crossword puzzles. Commercial programs are better, but this is free.

CrossWise + doc

crosswise.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 215
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Scrabble-type word game.

English Speaking Dictionary

eng-spkg-dict.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: tutorial-content
Objectives/skills: (part of ESD)
Student age: adult
Proficiency level: beginning
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 5295
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with sound. Includes several stacks--Amphibians, Birds, Fish & Marine Life, Imaginary Animals, Insects & Spiders, Reptiles, Sports, Words, Ed/Sci1, Food & Eating, People & Occupations, Safety & the Workplace, Transportation.

Gapmaster data files-various

gapmstr-data-voc.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: Gapmaster data files
Objectives/skills: cloze, vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 40
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by D. Friend; material from Monique LaPierre and Don Friend. Use with Gapmaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Cloze with a vocabulary focus.

HangMan Plus 2.0

hangman-plus2.0.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: any
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 101
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Guess the word or get hanged. Has words in categories and you can create a custom word list.

Hyper Word Hunt 6/18

hyperwordhunt2.0.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 192
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Guess the hidden word by using a variety of context, grammatical, and semantic clues.

Lembracs + doc

lembracs.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 150
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Scrambled word vocabulary game. Can be played individually or in pairs.

LogoD¾dalus + files

logodaedalus.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$15
Size uncompressed: 170
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Boggle-type vocabulary game with its own dictionary to check words against.

Logogrip

logogrip.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$15
Size uncompressed: 170
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: A vocabulary game where you try to make as many words as possible using the letters in the word on the screen.

MacWord Hunt v2.0

macwordhunt.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 71
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Look for words hidden within a grid.

NewLexis Demo

nwlxsdemo1.02.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: demo (vocabulary)
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 1353
Date listing updated: 03/27/97
Description: Demo version of a shareware program for vocabulary practice. Words are based on the University Word List. The demo is a fully functional version of the program, but can only be used 25 times before it locks.

PhrazeCrazePlus + files

phrazecraze.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 200
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Like Wheel of Fortune; spin to see how much money you can get if you guess one of the missing letters in a phrase. Authorable.

Practise Your Cloze

pycloze2.2.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: vocabulary, reading
Student age: any
Proficiency level: beg
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 88
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: Displays a text that the student has to work on, plucks words out at random and asks the student to pick the missing word from a group at the bottom of the screen. Teachers/students can add their own texts and exercises. With the (free) stack "PYS Sounds" in the same folder as this program, you can use a number of congratulatory noises and other goodies. Requires HyperCard Player. Written by Bruce Laidlaw & Prasit Yutasane.

Practise Your English

pyeng2.8.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: vocabulary, grammar
Student age: any
Proficiency level: beg-int
Cost: Shareware
Size uncompressed: 160
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: Shareware HyperCard program. It needs to have the free companion program PYS Sounds in the same folder. PYS Sounds holds all the encouragement etc. The program works on common patterns in English such as tag questions, verbs, and homophones. It contains some twenty exercises, but the teacher can add more.

Practise Your Sounds

pysounds.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: utility
Objectives/skills: utility
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 248
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: Freeware HyperCard program. If you have any of the following programs: Practise Your Reading, Practise Your Spelling, Practise Your Jumble, Practise Your Matching, Choose the Best, Practise Your Typing, Practise Your Cloze, Practise Your English, Practise Your Phonetics, then, PYS Sounds needs to be in the same folder, as it holds all the encouragement, fonts, gadgets etc.

Testmaster data files-various

testmstr-data-voc.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: Testmaster data files
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 72
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by Don Friend; material from Monique LaPierre and Don Friend. Use with Testmaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Various vocabulary exercises.

This Equals That

this-equals-that.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 18
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Vocabulary game where you guess the phrase from clues.

WordSearch

wordsearch.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 32
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Creates word search puzzles; a few are on disk already.

Wordtris Demo

wordtris-demo
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: demo (vocabulary)
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: any
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 760
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: A demo of a word-based version of Tetris where students need to act quickly to create words with falling letters.


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