1. How to enter the course How to navigate around the course How to view your progress Other tools and resources...

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1 Students guide to the Net Languages platform English for Work Essential Contents 1. How to enter the course How to navigate around the course How to view your progress Other tools and resources How to enter the course Type your codes into the Username and Password section and click on Login. 2. How to navigate around the course Once your have logged into the platform, you will see the home page of the course.

2 To go into your module, click on the module. You will see the first page of the module and the navigation column on the left.

3 In the navigation column you will see the 6 sections of the module. Click on the section name of the section you want to enter e.g. Section 1

4 The section will open and you will see that each exercise is on a different page. To change from one exercise to another, you need to click on the numbers you see at the top of each page. To finish a session, click on log out.

5 To view the support documents: Study Guide and Platform Guide, click on My documents: 3. How to view your progress On the homepage you can view your progress in graphic representation. For more detailed information click on My scores or How these scores are calculated. You can see your test marks:

6 4. Other tools and resources To see what resources are available in your course, click on My Resources: The following tools and resources are available. (See more details below.)

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8 Text to Speech The Text to Speech tool allows you to listen to any text you write into the text box. Text to speech / Translate into any language You can also select any text on the page and listen to it or translate it into any language: Record yourself On each page of the course you have access to the "Record yourself" tool, which allows you to record yourself and save these files. This tool is designed to help you to improve your pronunciation. You can listen to yourself and compare your recording to the original. Dictionary The dictionary is an online dictionary which allows you to translate words from English to other languages on the list.

9 Grammar reference The Grammar reference opens up a level-specific Grammar Reference which you can use at any time. Business centre The business centre contains useful information for students who need to use English in a business context. Resources include templates for different types of texts, language and tips.

10 Additional Resources In "Additional Resources" you can find links to useful listening and video material as well as online reading material suitable for language learners. Interactive English Interactive English is a monthly Net Languages publication available at three levels: Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. Each issue contains an interesting news text, vocabulary and language exercises, and discussion tasks. You can listen to native speakers talking about the topic (also available as a podcast), and you can access previous issues. Interactive English is mobile friendly and available as an app for Android and IOS smartphones.

11 Forums You can use the Forums to contact other students studying the same level as you. Pronunciation The "Pronunciation" link opens up the phonemic chart. You can click on each phoneme to hear the sound of the phoneme in isolation as well as in a word.