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Guide to Bell English: Free multimedia exercises and activities. The Bell English Online Materials are dynamic, interactive, multimedia materials, which you can use at any time, anywhere, to practise the English you need at your level. You can find the following things in it - A test to find out your level The Language Exerciser Ten exercise types Language practice games

A test to find out your level

When you start Bell English Online, or at any time you choose, you can take a level test. When you have done the test, you will be told by the program which level of exercises you ought to try. Our program will remember the level you are at until the next time you take a test.

You can take the test as many times as you like, but the test will not always be the same. A Test will be chosen automatically from our bank of tests.

In each part of the test the questions start easy and get more difficult. You can take the parts of the test in any order you like.

The Levels that we use are the eight levels of the Bell English Language Learning Scale, which we use in all our schools. The Levels are:

1. Beginner
2. Elementary
3. Lower Intermediate
4. Intermediate
5. Upper Intermediate
6. Advanced
7. Proficient
8. Expert

The Language Exerciser

• Ten Exercise Types
• Different levels
• Hundreds of exercises
• Flexible and easy to use menu screen: You can choose to display exercises by level, by Study area (e.g. Vocabulary, Grammar, Listening, Reading, Writing, Pronunciation), by topic (e.g. Travel, Britain, Jobs, Everyday activities, etc) or by a mixture of all three.
• Test and Practice Modes: You can do an exercise, either in Test Mode, which will not give you help while you are doing the exercise, but will give you full feedback afterwards, or in Practice Mode, which will give you help while you are doing the exercise.
• Score memory: Your computer will remember your best score in test mode and the number of times you have done an exercise in practice mode.
• Multiuser functions. More than one person can use the same computer and the score memory function will still work.
• All exercises are available in Practice mode (help and instant feedback) or Test Mode (Analysis of mistakes at the end, less help while you are doing the exercise)
• A separate help page is available for most exercises
• An animated demonstration is available for all 10 exercise types
• Any word in any exercise can be looked up instantly in the Cambridge University Press Online Dictionary

Ten exercise types

The exercise types are:

• Odd One Out
  This exercise type is primarily used for grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation practise. You have to find the odd one out in a group of words or phrases by reading or listening and then drag it onto the Bell. As in ,most exercises in practice mode, the wrong items will not drag and you will see a message. In test mode, you get full feedback at the end of the test.
• Match Text to Picture
  You have to drag a word or phrase onto a picture. In practise mode the word does not stick. The pictures help you to learn vocabulary, and some of the pictures and the words or phrases can also have words or sentences that you can listen to.
• Multiple Choice
  You read a text or listen to a dialogue, and/or look at a picture and answer Multiple Choice questions in any order you like . When you have finished you press a FINISH button and find out how well you did.
• Gapfilling
  You read a text or listen to a dialogue, and fill in gaps in a text by choosing words or phrases items from a drop-down menu.
• Drag text into text
  In this exercise you drag words, phrases or sentences from the window on the left into the correct part of the text on the right. When you have finished you press a FINISH button and find out how well you did.
• Write it
  In this exercise you read a text or listen to a dialogue, and/or look at a picture. Then you have to write in the correct answer to questions in any order you like . When you have finished you press a FINISH button and find out how well you did. Mostly we use this for reading and listening comprehension practise, but also for some grammar and vocabulary practise.
• Textbuilder
  Textbuilder is a "total text deletion" programme, where you have to complete a text which is either partially or totally deleted by writing in words and phrases. Like the other programs it is fully multimedia capable and there is a hint and a feedback mechanism built into practice mode.
• Match Text to Text
  You have to match words or phrases with each other by dragging then into the right column. in practice mode, the wrong items will not drag and you will see a message. In test mode, you get full feedback at the end of the test.
• Category Sort.
  You have to drag words or phrases in between boxes to put them into the right box. This is mostly used for Vocabulary and pronunciation practice, but also for listening. · Text Jumbler. You have to drag words or phrases of a dialogue, or in a vocabulary area or grammatical category, for example, into the correct order.

Language practise games

	Identikit is a listening and vocabulary activity at three levels. You listen to (or read) a description of a person and by choosing facial features(nose, ears, eyes, etc), you build up a face matching the description.
	Welcome to Bell is an exercise based on listening at Lower Intermediate level in which we follow a student arriving at a Bell School and answer questions based on the experiences and conversations he has.
	Label the Picture is a vocabulary development game at Elementary level which covers basic everyday vocabulary. You have to drag a word onto the right part of a picture.
	Treasure Hunt is an exciting adventure game at Lower Intermediate and Upper Intermediate levels in which you solve clues based on Listening in order to find a treasure.
CHUTES & LIFTS	Chutes and Lifts is an electronic board game which is a mixture of Trivial Pursuit and Snakes and Ladders You have to get to the end of the board before your computer opponent. To do this you have to answer questions correctly: There are six topic areas( general knowledge, vocabulary, idioms, world culture, social English, sport and entertainment) and four types of question (ordering, multiple choice, read and write: listen and write)

Practise Now!

All registered BellEnglish members can use the multimedia Activities and Exercises. Click here to register, and start practising your English straight away!

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