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Getting Started

Boardworks KS4 French

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What is Boardworks KS4 French?

Boardworks KS4 French

is an educational package designed for whole-class teaching on interactive whiteboards and projectors. This PowerPoint presentation is a teacher’s guide to getting started with the product, and covers common questions and technical advice. If you haven’t used a Boardworks product before, it is recommended that you start here.

Boardworks KS4 French

consists of eleven presentations. For the full contents of each presentation please view the contents pdf documents in the contents folder.

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Are there any teacher’s notes?

This product does not contain hard copy teacher’s notes. Where a slide contains notes that are intended for the teacher, you will see an icon in the top right-hand corner, as above. The notes are contained within the notes field of the slide. These notes typically include guidance on completing an activity, extra information or ideas for differentiating an activity. When you see the WWW icon, as above, the notes include a relevant web address. While all care is taken to ensure web links contain useful information, Boardworks does not take responsibility for the content or accuracy of external web sites.

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What about the Flash interactivity?

This product contains many interactive exercises designed in Flash, a multimedia technology.

Any slide which contains Flash will have the Flash icon in the top right-hand corner, as above. The Flash activities are not editable, although they can be copied and pasted into other presentations, like other objects in PowerPoint. All Flash activities should be easy-to-use and self explanatory. In most activities the arrow icon ( ) is the reset button, and the question mark ( ) provides help should it be needed.

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How do I hear the audio?

All audio is embedded within Flash. Where audio is included on a slide you will see a speaker icon in the top right-hand corner, as above.

The audio can be heard by using the sound players, of which there are two (one for short clips and one for long).

Press play to start the recording, pause to stop at any point, and rewind to return to the beginning, either of the previous sentence or the whole clip, depending on the type of sound player.

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Which dictionary has been used?

The French spellings in the presentations should all be consistent with The Oxford Hachette French Dictionary.

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How do I navigate through the presentations?

Just like any other PowerPoint presentation, you can click on any empty area of the screen to bring on-screen the next object or move forward to the next slide. You can click on the back arrow at the bottom-left of each screen to go back through the slides. The coloured forward arrow at the bottom-right of the screen only appears when all objects on a slide have been revealed, so you won’t miss any content. You can see how many slides there are in the presentation by looking in the bottom left-hand corner. 7 of 10 © Boardworks Ltd 2007

Can I print from the presentations?

You can print all the slides in a presentation by simply clicking on the printer icon; alternatively, you can print single slides by navigating to that slide, clicking on File, Print, and checking the “Current slide” option.

If you want to print the notes page that accompanies a slide, change the “Print what” option to “Notes Page”.

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Can I edit the presentations?

One of the major advantages of

Boardworks KS4 French

is that it has been created in PowerPoint, which means it is editable. You are free to use the standard PowerPoint functionality to edit the presentations, including reordering, adding or deleting slides, adding or removing text, or inserting your own activities or images. The only items that aren’t editable are the Flash activities, and these can still be copied and pasted between slides and presentations. Many schools save the original version of the product on the network, with teachers saving their own versions locally.

Please see the EULA (End User Licence Agreement) supplied with this product for details of our licence conditions.

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Can I give you feedback?

At Boardworks we are constantly striving to improve our products and all feedback is very gratefully received. If you wish to comment on any of the content in the product please do get in touch: The French Editor Boardworks Ltd The Gallery 54 Marston Street Oxford OX4 1LF tel: 08703 50 55 60 fax: 08703 50 55 65 e: [email protected]

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