Oxford Picture Dictionary Program

The Oxford Picture Dictionary

is the ultimate program for vocabulary learning available today. It is ideal for beginning-intermediate adult and young adult students.

The Dictionary

• Illustrates over 3,700 words in full-color, each clearly labeled and defined in context for easy identification
• Offers 140 key topics targeted to meet the vocabulary needs of adults and young adults for real communication
• Features topics grouped into 12 thematic areas, several with a vocational strand providing language for immediate use
• Teaches many verbs, adjectives and phrases
• Includes a variety of exercises for practice and review, leading to meaningful, accurate use of the new vocabulary
• Provides an index with an easy-to-follow pronunciation guide to increase students' fluency

The 12 Topic Areas in the Dictionary include:

• Everyday Language
• People
• Housing
• Food
• Clothing
• Health
• Community
• Transportation
• Areas of Study
• Plants and Animals
• Work
• Recreation

English Literacy/Civics

The following topics are especially relevant to EL/Civics education:

• Unit #6: Health: Health Care, Medical Emergencies, Clinics, Medical and Dental Exams, A Hospital
• Unit #7: Community: The Legal System, Crime, Public Safety, U.S. Mail, City Streets
• Unit #9: Areas of Study: Types of Schools, U.S. History, U.S. Government and Citizenship, Geography
• Unit #11: Work: Jobs and Occupations, Job Skills, Job Search, An Office, Farming/Ranching, Construction, Tools and Building Supplies

Bilingual Editions

There are thirteen bilingual Dictionary editions: Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Haitian, Thai and Cambodian. The second language is presented in blue underneath the English word. A complete second-language index is included.

Dictionary Cassettes

The Cassettes feature all the words in the monolingual edition of the Dictionary and serve as an easy-to-repeat speech model.

Interactive CD-ROM

This interactive, multimedia CD-ROM brings the words and illustrations of The Oxford Picture Dictionary to life with sound and animation. Click here for more information or to purchase.

Teacher's Book and Focused Listening Cassette

The Teacher's Book includes the complete Dictionary plus easy-to-use lesson plans for the whole program. Each page includes the full-color, reduced size Dictionary illustration, annotated with wrap-around notes. They provide cultural and factual background information and teaching strategies. The step-by-step lesson plans offer a variety of activities for presenting, practicing, and expanding the vocabulary lesson through work in all four skills. Listening activities are supported by a Focused Listening Cassette.

Overhead Transparencies

Full-color Overhead Transparencies are available for each page of the Monolingual edition of the Dictionary.

Beginning Workbook & Intermediate Workbook

The Beginning Workbook and Intermediate Workbook in full color offer vocabulary reinforcement activities that correspond page for page to the Dictionary. Clear, simple instructions with examples make them ideal for independent use in the classroom, at home, and for multi-level classes.

The Workbooks provide opportunities for contextualized vocabulary practice and critical thinking skills development through motivating contexts and engaging activities, including:

• Picture and reality-based life-skills practice
• Real information depicted in charts and graphs
• Student-centered exercises
• Additional higher level speaking and writing practice
• A Workbook Answer Key provides the answer to the exercises in both workbooks.
• One key will be provided upon request with each class order of workbooks.

Grammar Activities

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein

and

Norma Shapiro

Beginning

Grammar Activities is an indispensable resource that enables teachers to use the Dictionary to teach a wide range of basic grammar points.

Key features

• 128 grammar activities that correlate to a specific topic in the Dictionary and can easily be adapted for use with multilevel classes.
• Practical advice on how to incorporate different types of grammar instruction into the classroom.
• Lesson plans for conducting the various activities with tips for adapting them in multilevel classes.
• Grammar index is a user-friendly access tool that lists the grammar activities by grammar topic.

Classic Classroom Activities

Renée Weiss, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, and Norma Shapiro

Classic Classroom Activities is a collection of reproducible support materials for the Oxford Picture Dictionary.

It offers:

• Over 100 reproducible communicative practice activities
• 768 reproducible picture cards based on the vocabulary of the Dictionary
• Student-centered "classic" activities including information gaps, mixers, role plays, and board games
• Teacher's notes and step-by-step instructions

Read All About It 1 and 2

Lori Howard

High Beginning-Low Intermediate

Read All About It:

• Draws on authentic news stories, magazine articles, biographies, folktales and poetry
• Develops reading skills, vocabulary, and critical thinking through a wide variety of pre-reading, reading, and post-reading activities
• Supports the readings with vivid photographs and illustrations
• Invites cooperative learning with numerous opportunities for group and pair work
• Enables independent learning with a removable Answer Key and "Remember the Words," a student's personal vocabulary diary
• Includes Teacher's Notes for both novice and experienced teachers

These readers offer engaging selections based on authentic materials. Unit themes correspond to those in the Dictionary, and readings contextualize and expand on dictionary vocabulary. Accompanying activities help develop reading skills, vocabulary, and critical thinking. Word lists with pages references to the Dictionary are provided.

A Cassette for each book contains clear, easy-to-understand recordings of all the readings in the text. Read All About It 1 and 2 can be used as independently or with the support of The Oxford Picture Dictionary. Themes in the readings correspond to those in the Dictionary, and a Word List with page references to the Dictionary is provided.

About the Authors

In writing The Oxford Picture Dictionary Program, the authors, Norma Shapiro and Jayme Adelson-Goldstein have found inspiration in many places -- in the classroom from their remarkable students, at schools, conferences, and workshops from fellow teachers, and from their colleagues at the ESL Teacher Institute.