Activity 3: Adding a sound extension to vocabulary lists

Aim: Help students practice the pronunciation of words in their vocabulary lists

Moodle modules: Database

Extra programs: NanoGong

Ease of setup: *

It's often useful to be able to add sound to a student activity. This activity provides an extension to Activity 10, Using a database to set up categorized vocabulary lists in Chapter 3, Vocabulary Activities. The addition will mean that students can read a word, see its definition, look at related words, and hear how it's pronounced.

This is a fairly simple operation, and is a matter of adding a recording to your existing definition. Your enhanced database would now look something like this:

Here's how to do it

1. Click on the database you created in Chapter 3, Vocabulary Activities, Activity 10.

   
2. Now click on the editing icon next to the first word, paper.
   

3. Click on the cursor to the left of the first word, made.

   
4. Now we click on the audio button in the editing menu and record the word paper,...