User's Manual

Last update: 29/08/01

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From any other screen, click on the Options icon in the

toolbar.

Selecting an option

Click on the tab corresponding to the activity whose settings you wish to modify: Dialogue and Exercises; Audio,

Video and Speech Recognition; or Guided Mode, Online Services and Help.

To activate or deactivate an option, click on its corresponding button.

To adjust a level (difficulty level, volume, etc.), click on the blue cursor, then holding the left mouse button down,

slide the blue cursor left or right and release the mouse button when you have set the level.

Note.

If you are a first-time user of TeLL me More

, you are strongly advised not to change the options that have been set

by default.

Options: Dialogue and Exercises

Timer

You may choose to complete the exercises with or without the timer. Activate the timer to change the time allowed

to complete the exercises. The further to the left you move the cursor, the shorter the time available, and vice versa.

Picture/Word Association

For this exercise you may choose whether or not to display the answer choices.

If you choose to display the answer choices you can choose how many you see (two, three or four).

Dictation

You may vary the difficulty level of the dictation. If you ask TeLL me More

to be lenient (easy mode), it will not

take any capitalisation or punctuation mistakes into account. If, however, you want TeLL me More

to be more

demanding (difficult mode), you will not be able to make any capitalisation or punctuation mistakes.

Dialogue: Comprehension

The dialogue may be carried out in three different ways: explore, expression and comprehension.

When TeLL me More

is in Dialogue: Explore or Dialogue: Expression, you can choose any of the responses

shown on the screen.

With Dialogue: Comprehension, only one of the responses shown is correct. You must find the response that

corresponds to the question asked and the picture shown. The computer will only accept the correct response. Should

you give the wrong response, TeLL me More

will display it in red.

To vary the difficulty level of the exercise, you can choose the number of responses shown.

Crossword Puzzle

You can choose the type of clue you wish to use to help you fill in the Crossword Puzzle: choose between an oral

clue (a recording of the word) and a written clue (the translation of the word).