Description
Do you have a class of adults (non-English backgrounds) learning English? Have they been educated in their own countries?
This personal dictionary helps to learn
• Vocabulary
• Alphabetical skills
• Days of Week
• Months of Year
• Ordinal Numbers
• Colours
• Seasons of the Year
Personal Dictionary links to
- Australian Course Skills Framework
- SEE (Skills for Education and Employment):
- Level 1 (1.01) Planning and organising: Identifies some appropriate tools from the immediate environment (e.g. dictionary) / Level 1 (1.02) Locating evaluating and organising information: uses simple strategies to organise and help remember information (e g dictionary to build a word bank)
- Level 1 Writing (1.06) helps with vocabulary development
- Level 2 (2.06) Procedures for familiar text types using simple vocabulary, grammatical structures and conventions: SPELLING: refers to a dictionary to check spelling or vocabulary choices
