Below is a selection of just some of the CD-ROMs available for English Language Teaching as at January 1996. The titles are available at ELT bookshops, or from specialist outlets, especially Wida Software
Title Publisher Cat £ Notes Evaluation Rating
Asterix and Heinemann GEN £49.00 Price is Just listen and repeat. 4
Son for Some reading. High
2-disk quality cartoons
set
Asterix and Heinemann GEN £49.00 Price is ibid. 4
the Secret for
Weapon 2-disk
set
Basic Skills Vektor GEN £79.00 Listen and repeat. 3
Multiple choice and true
false exercises.
Business Vektor / BBC BUS £195.0 Per disk Listen and repeat. 4
English 0 (6 set = Limited exercise types.
Activities £695)
Cobuild Collins REF £129.0 Teachers ref only. No 7
English 0 video or audio
Collocations
Cobuild on Collins REF £129.0 No video or audio 5
CD-ROM 0
Desktop Longman GEN £150.0 Non-Windo Can create exercises. 5
English 0 ws Complete course, some
good features.
English for Wolverhampton BUS £90.00 First Good range of exercises, 7
Business University disc in video, authentic
series language. Slightly
of 6. cluttered interface.
Second
imminent
English for Wolverhampton BUS £90.00 Second
Business: University in
Managing series
Quality
English Berlitz GEN £175.0 Can be difficult to use, 6
Discoveries 0 but imaginative
English Works Longman GEN £100.0 Based on Listen and repeat. 4
0 book of
same
title
Expressions Vektor GEN £139.0 Simple interface. 3
0 Stilted dialogue.
Listen and repeat. Few
exercise types
Flying Colours Heinemann GEN £75.00 Based on Poor interface, but good 7
Reward. use of exercises, video
2 more etc
in prep.
Getting the Eurocentres GEN £70.00 Non-Windo Old-fashioned interface 6
Message ws but good teaching
material
Grammar ROM Longman GEN £50.00 Due January 1996 9
Listen! Heinemann GEN £50.00 Just Simple and effective. 7
published No text (tied to book)
for PC
Longman Longman REF £75.00 Poor interface but good 7
Interactive range of ref material
English
Dictionary
Multimedia Heinemann YL £29.00 Simple, popular with 7
Flashcards kids (Certificates,
games)
Q-steps Q multimedia YL £30.00 Cartoon-based, but 9
actually teaches (unlike
Living Books). Good
range of exercises.
Imaginative
Small Talk Libra GEN £99.00 Listen and repeat. 3
Multimedia Limited exercise types.
Primitive interface
Telephone Talk Libra GEN £99.00 ibid. 3
Multimedia
Triple Play Syracuse YL Fun and imaginative 6
Zargon Zoo Heinemann YL £35.00 Cartoon-based reader, 5
poor man's Living Book
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