Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary CD-ROM Product Details

Features:

NEW! Hundreds of interactive exercises, including exam practice for IELTS, FCE, CAE, CPE and BEC.

NEW! Thousands of extra example sentences.

NEW! Frequency information shows the most important words to learn.

Pronunciation by native speakers in British and American English

Practice your pronunciation by recording it and playing it back. Compare your pronunciation with the recordings provided, until you get it right.

Smart thesaurus button that shows definitions that have the word specified in them. So if you were trying to find synonyms for the word tree you would get all of definitions that have the word tree in them.

Advanced search that lets you narrow down your search by specifying:

• Category
• Part of Speech
• Grammar
• Usage
• Region
• Topic

Quick Find – Windows pops up with the definitions for the word you point to in any window.

SUPERWRITE If you are writing on–screen, SUPERwrite helps you to write better English. It gives you useful information about grammar, collocation and common errors at the click of a mouse.

Exercises – The CD–ROM contains many different types of exercise which can be done on screen or printed out for use in the classroom. There are 7 types of word exercises, containing hundreds of randomly generated sentences, which focus on grammar and usage, and 36 picture exercises which are very useful for vocabulary building and practice.

System Requirements:

• PC with Pentium 300 MHZ or higher
• 128 MB of RAM
• Microsoft Windows 98, NT4, ME, 2000 or XP
• 200 MB free hard disk space
• Internet Explorer® 5.0 or later
• DirectX compatiable sound card with speakers or headphones
• a mouse or compatible pointing device
• Super VGA, 16–bit colour or higher monitor supporting 800x600 or higher resolution

A complete list of features and side-by-side comparisons are available on the Dictionary Software Review HomePage.

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