Procedure
Proceed as follows to create a listening activity:
- Store the digital sound file in a place accessible to the language lab (a memory stick, a virtual drive, the teacher’s computer,…).
If you don’t have a digital file, but a CD or other medium, please digitise the files first (There is a mini-manual on digitising and CD ripping). - Go to File Activities.
- Click Sonus
.
- Click Add file
.
Optionally, click Add attachmentto send an attachment.
- Click Options for this activity.
- Choose an appropriate Sonus mode.
- Playback only (recommended):
The students can individually pause, stop, rewind, ... the extract, but they cannot close the program, open a new file, record, ... . - Teacher Control only:
The students have no control whatsoever over the sound file. The teacher decides when to pause, play, ... with the controls at the top of the screen.
- Playback only (recommended):
- Start and stop the activity by clicking
and
.