Radio Shack RacioShack Bilingual Learning Laptop, 60-2642 Activity 21 advanced missing letter

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3.At the top of the screen, the laptop will ask you either “Past tense?” or “Past participle?”

A past participle is a word that is used in

NOTE combination with the word “have.” For example, in the sentence, “I have drunk the water,” “drink” is the verb and “drunk” is the past participle of that verb.

4.A verb will be shown below the question.

5.Type either the past tense or past participle of the listed verb and then press ENTER.

activity 21: advanced missing letter

1.Press ON/Mode to go to the Category Selection Menu.

2.Press ￿￿ ENTER to start Activity 21.

3.A picture will appear.

4.Type the word that matches the picture, then press

ENTER.

activity 22: sentence completion

1.

Press ON/Mode to go to the Category Selection Menu.

2.

Press ￿￿ ENTER toto start Activity 22.

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activity 23: scrambled sentence

1.Press ON/Mode to go to the Category Selection Menu.

2.Press ￿￿ ENTER to start Activity 23.

3.A scrambled sentence will appear. Select words in the correct order to make a complete sentence.

4.Move the mouse or press the arrow keys to the word that belongs at the beginning of the sentence and press ENTER to select. The selected word moves to the first space on the second row.

5.Move the mouse or press the arrow keys to each consecutive word in the sentence and press ENTER to select. Repeat until you have used up all of the words.

activity 24: sentence correction

1.Press ON/Mode to go to the Category Selection Menu.

2.Press ￿￿ ENTER to start Activity 24.

3.A grammatically-incorrect sentence will appear. Your job is to find the word that makes the sentence incorrect.

4.Move the cursor to the incorrect word with the mouse or arrow keys. Press ENTER to confirm.

3. An incomplete sentence will scroll across the screen.

Complete the sentence using correct grammar. You can

NOTE

Press the help key (?) to find out the position of the incorrect word.

make the sentence scroll faster by pressing the right

arrow key.

4. Use the up/down arrow keys to choose the correct

answer and then press ENTER.

activity 25: vocabulary builder

1.Press ON/Mode to go to the Category Selection Menu.

2.Press ￿￿ ENTER to start Activity 25.

3.A definition will scroll across the screen. You can press the right arrow key to scroll the sentence faster.

4.Use the keys to look at the three choices. Press ENTER to select the word that matches the definition.

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