Tick-Tack TT2010

Lesson One – How Tick-Tack works - the basics

This lesson plan introduces the layout of the Tick-Tack screen and shows how the programs work.

It uses the Travel program, but could just as easily use any of the other programs. It assumes that the teacher is using a video projector to demonstrate Tick-Tack and the students are seated each at a computer. Lesson One can also be used for self-access and revision.

Part 1: 10 minutes – Calling-up sentences

The teacher demonstrates the first item. The students do the same. The teacher then goes on to the next item, and the students do the same.

Ø Start / Programs / TT2010. Click Travel

Ø TT2010 screen appears. Note the program name “Travel” in top-left of screen

Ø Destination language- bottom left Lower box - scroll, then click e.g. “English“

Ø Source language- bottom left Upper box - scroll, then click your mother tongue

Ø Select theme - bottom long box (Upper) - click to open box, scroll & click on “B”

Ø Select sentence - bottom long box (Lower) - click to open box, click on “B1”

This puts the sentence code-number B1 in the Call-up bar at the top-left of screen

Ø Hit Enter-key or click “Add”. This displays sentence B1 in destination language

Ø The same sentence can be called up in another language (e.g. Italian):

Ø change destination language (Lower box) to Italian, call up Section B & click B1

Hit Enter-key or click “Add”. The same sentence is displayed in Italian.

Ø To clear the screen: highlight the text and hit the Delete key

Ø To close the program: click on the red box with a white cross in top right corner

“Save changes?” Click “no“

The students now practise starting Tick-Tack and calling up sentences: 5 minutes

Part 2: 20 minutes – the Menu bar

Demonstrate the various items on the Menu bar, one after the other.

The students only watch at this stage. They practise it later

(mention only the main points for each Menu title)

File:

File / Open / Save / Print

Edit:

Cut / Copy / Paste / Find / Replace / Select All

View

Normal

Print format

Insert

File / Image / Page Break

Format

Font / Text Colour / Background Colour

Table

Insert table

Delete table

Options

HTML

PDF

About Tick-Tack

Useful background information about Tick-Tack

Book-texts

Business-ENG / Travel FRA displays all the themes and their sentences

Demo

Display images of the Tick-Tack screen

Getting started (& Using the tasks)

Basic help on using the Tick-Tack programs and the tasks

Lesson One – How Tick-Tack works (in Everyday program)

Hints and Tips

More detailed help

Info

Language list

Language names

Tasks

[see separate section below]

Wordlists:

English / Italian

For looking up words in source or destination language. Listed alphabetically.

Help

Add / Play / Record

click Add or Play – after selecting a sentence

Record – opens Sound Recorder

Tasks / Tasks menu

Ø black screen opens

Ø click on English / Travel

The scenario is explained and all the Tasks are listed

Ø click on Travel Task 2

Students can click on the various links and see how the tasks work.

Part 3: The last 10 - 15 minutes students practise what they have learned.

The teacher makes sure that everyone knows how to handle Tick-Tack and assists those who need help.

Follow-up lesson – Tasks and sound-files

1. Revision: Tick-Tack basics: 10 minutes

2. How the tasks work

Ø Open the Travel program. Then click on Tasks / Task menu

This opens the black screen.

Ø Click on Travel / English. This opens the menu for the English Travel tasks

Ø Click on Task 2: Advice to travellers

a) Organizing the screen with two files open: 15 minutes

Ø Read the first screen of Advice to travellers.

Ø Then click on “piece of paper”. Read it.

It tells you what you have to do – i.e. edit a document to make certain changes.

This is your “instruction file”.

Ø Now click on “Text”. It displays the document that you have to edit.

This is your “work file”, the file you have to edit.

It is in Internet Explorer htm format and you cannot edit it in this form.

So you must re-open it in Word. To do this:

Ø Click on File / Edit with Microsoft Word. This re-opens an identical copy in Word.

You now have two copies of the same text. Using Word you can now edit the text..

Ø Now you need to bring up the “instruction” file” to find out what to edit. To do this:

Ø click on the IE htm screen (not the Word screen) and click the green-blue arrow in the top-left corner. This navigates you back to the earlier “instruction file”.

You should now have the two documents on the screen that you need for carrying out the task: the “instruction file” and the “work file”.

Ø You must now spend a little time very carefully re-sizing the two screens so that each occupies half the desktop width. Then move them so that the “instruction file” is on the left half of the desktop and the “work file” is on the right half. They should just touch in the middle.

Ø Now practise re-sizing the screens and moving them round the desktop.

b) Organizing the screen with three files open: 5 minutes

You can have three screens open at the same time. To do this:

Ø re-size the two screens again so that there is a gap between them.

Now call up Notepad. To do this:

Ø Click Start / Run, and type “notepad” in the box and click OK.

This will open Notepad.

Ø Re-size it to make it smaller and place it in the center of the desktop.

Travel Task16 looks like this when handling three screens:

Now see what happens when you click on one of the other screens. It comes to the front - but you can still see part of Notepad. When you click on Notepad, it again comes to the front. So you can now handle all three screens very easily.

Remember: When you study a new task you must think carefully and decide which is the “instruction file” and which is the “work file”. You then need to have them both open, side-by-side, on the screen. Take time to organize your screen well.

c) Practising the Starter and Everyday Programs: 10minutes

Students should call up one of the tasks in the Everyday program: e.g. AA9

and carry it out – applying what they have just learned. Remember:

Ø click on File / Edit with Microsoft Word so you can edit the text.

Ø carry out the task

Ø compare your work with the model answer

d) Practising the voice-mails: 10 minutes

[The students should have their own headphones.]

Whenever students carry out a task containing a voice-mail they should first listen to it. Then, using Notepad, they should type out what they hear by playing a few words at a time.

They can use the mouse to stop & start the player.

They can then compare their work with the original text.

Use Everyday tasks AA7, AA13 or AA19.

The last 10 minutes students work on their own with the various programs

The teacher can provide help and answer any questions that may arise.