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Training Presentation scriptBackground6 languages available through same page – same look & feel, functionality.‘Top-end’ dictionaries. More functionality, examples including idiomatic and colloquial language, grammar, pronunciation, lookup tools etc. Top names – Hachette.Updates every 6 monthsOxford Language Web – “offers an easy way to learn key vocabulary quickly and to explore the relationships between different languages”.Home pageChange language with one button, or language & direction via drop-down.Search and BrowseTools and Resources – (life & culture, grammar & vocabulary, writing & word games, teaching & learning)Keyboard palette – including Chinese & Russian (show)(Word of the Day)Recent examples – credit crunch, mileurista, écopastille (Fr), Komasaufen, gouwukuang (Chinese)Oxford Language Web – E, F, G, It, Sp, Russ, Ch, Port, Pol, Jap, Kor, Thai, Arabic. 7,500 words. English word at centre, but browse by any language in left column. Search ‘blog’ (loan words) email, milkSpanish to English ‘fuero’ for note at the bottom & link to Guernica. ‘membrillo’ for link to quince & OR. French ‘loup blanc’ – doesn’t work in main search, or headword search in more options. Need to use Key Fields.SearchFrench, ‘café’ - character palette to add final éShow search results. Select café from top of list.Translations such as dark brown, coffee are presented in bold black. Other information to help the user choose the correct translation (e.g. adj inv, couleur) are in grey italic. Example phrases (such as café vert/torrifié = unroasted/roasted coffee) are in grey bold and a slightly smaller font size. Idioms are shown in a separate category at the end of the entry under the heading Idioms (or its foreign language equivalent).Demonstrate mouseover features. A) Hover over adj inv (at A) and nm (at B) Hover over circle at the end of the idiom …that’s a bit steep for explanationSpoken & written pronunciation (including full pron chart)Outline/Full view (top-left) & on individual entriesPrint, email, cite. Click on link to alter the URL in the address bar, which can then be pasted into another web browser to access the same entry.Language Web displayTools & Resources via top-right or ‘more on this word’. Left column - “Found café in 81 entries”. This shows where else your search term has been found in case you have opened the wrong entry. Click on the first result, pause-café to open up this entry.Demonstrate the direct lookup feature by double-clicking on break (from coffee break) and selecting Look up in English. This switches the dictionary to English-French and presents a list of results. Select break and open entry.‘Estate car’ on the break list. ORO link available from within every English language entry on OLDO. Click on Find this word in ORO in the More on this word box to the right of the screen. A new window will open.Sp e.g.– ‘pesado’ – change to Browse, start to type in ‘chorizo’ – verb chorar.Browsing the dictionary with the Word WheelBack in the entry for break, click on the Browse tab next to the Search tab to the left of the screen. This presents the A-Z headword list of the dictionary in the left-hand navigation panel that we call the Word Wheel.Click on more to scroll upwards as if you were browsing through a printed dictionary. Note that the compounds, such as breadbin, breadboard, breadbox, breadwinner, are all indented.Now switch to the other side of the dictionary by clicking on the “Switch Language Direction” button with two arrows to the right of the box that says English to French. You are now in the French-English dictionary again.Demonstrate the realtime scrolling feature of the Word Wheel. Type in Cannes quite slowly and watch the Word Wheel scroll automatically.Tools and ResourcesLife & Culture – phrasebookGrammar & vocabulary – verb tablesWriting & word games – sample letters, quizzes & puzzlesTeaching and Learning – Dictionary Skills Resource Pack/lecture slides (download takes time – open before!), Teaching Resources – lesson packsAdvanced SearchingEnglish - SpanishSearching for idiomatic expressions is easier using an online dictionary than a printed one. “It’s the pot calling the kettle black”. In a print dictionary you would not be sure whether to look up pot, kettle, or black. Type in pot kettle black into the search box, Search in: Key Fields or Full Text. There’s only one entry that matches and you are taken straight there with the relevant phrase highlighted in yellow. Or “it was nothing to write home about”. In a print dictionary you would not be sure whether to look up nothing, write, or home. Type “nothing to write home about” into the search box in quotes and you are taken straight to the correct entry with relevant phrase highlighted in yellow.Show how the search filters can refine your search. You may need to click “more search options” to display these filter boxes. Start with a blank search box, select Full Text and part of speech: interjeccion, familiar, espa?aFrench - English1) Demonstrate the difference between the three types of search. Search for fromage in Headwords (select Search In:Headwords). This shows all 12 entries where fromage occurs in a headword including things like fromage maigre. Now widen the search to Key Fields. This will show more entries (47) that include the search term in a wider context, not just the headword, as you can see towards the bottom of the page. Now search in Full Text. This will give you an even larger number of entries (91), but now switch the language direction to English-French and you will see all the English entries where fromage occurs as a translation.2) See all the words in French that end in –ing and have been borrowed from English. Type *ing into search box. – ‘relooking’ ................
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