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GramEx - re-useable exercises on the thornier points of English, French, German Spanish and Italian

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The GramEx programs (available for French, German, Spanish, Italian and English) are intended to provide tuition and reinforcement in essential areas of foreign language grammar to:

• 'High-flyer' KS4 students (or older learners) who are ready to rationalise their use of the foreign language
• 'A' level students of all abilities
• Post-A level students who need to revise their basic grammar
• Foreign students of English at any level beyond elementary (GramEx English only)

The format of the exercises is essentially multi-choice gapfill, but the programs offer context-sensitive explanations to users - these can be viewed even when the correct answer has been given.

The items are presented in random order each time the application is run, thus enhancing the re-usability of the material. Errors are recorded and then represented in a 'remedial run' when the exercise has been completed.

An InfoGram help file provides fuller information on all the grammatical topics covered, and when called up, defaults to the most relevant topic for the example the student is tackling.

GramEx English has 12 exercises covering: use of articles; auxiliary verbs; tag questions; indirect speech; the passive voice; phrasal verbs; use of prepositions; pronoun usage; questions and negatives; relative pronouns; use of tenses; verb forms.

GramEx French has 13 exercises covering: verb tenses; verb usage (future, conditional, subjunctive); personal pronouns (general); les/leur/leurs; c'est vs il est; demonstratives; du/de la/des/de (partitives); possessive adjectives; relative pronouns; prepositional usage after verbs; the passive voice. The InfoGram file is in French.

GramEx German is a substantial package covering: use and morphology of articles; adjective endings; use of all types of pronouns (several different exercises); subordinate clauses (several exercises); use of the subjunctive; comparatives; modal verbs; relative pronouns; verb morphology. There are 24 exercises in all. As the language presented is sometimes challenging, pop-up English translations are available for each example, accessible by the student at any time. The InfoGram file is in German.

GramEx Spanish has 14 exercises covering: use of articles; comparisons; object pronouns; relative pronouns; prepositions (3 exercises, including one on por and para); verb forms (reference and tests); ser/estar; past tenses (imperfect/perfect/preterite); the passive voice; the subjunctive (2 exercises: use in main clauses and use in subordinate clauses). The InfoGram file is in English.

GramEx Italian: 13 exercises covering use of articles; agreements; use of object pronouns; si - the indefinite pronoun; relative pronouns; prepositional usage after verbs; verbs: subject/object usage; use of tenses (imperfect, perfect/preterite); auxiliaries and irregular past participles; verb usage (subordinate clauses); 'se' clauses: use of the indicative and subjunctive; sequence of tenses (temporal clauses); 'false friends' (lexical traps for English speakers). The InfoGram file is in English.

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