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To type accented letters, press and hold a letter until the right accent is
displayed.
Space key. To insert a space between 2 characters.
Contrast key: located at the left bottom side of the screen. Set the switch
to the right to make the contrast of the LCD screen darker.
Volume key: located at the right bottom side of the screen. Set the switch
to the right to increase the volume of speaker.
Located on the mouse, these 4 arrow keys help you browse menus and
move the cursor. They are also very useful to play the activities.
To play the musical activities, pull out the secret piano, and press the
music keys.
à, â, é, è, ë,
ê, ç, î, ù, ï
Contrast
Volume
Playing the activities
2-player mode
In 2-player mode, players alternatively answer the questions. Each player is given one
try to answer a question. If a player cannot find the correct answer, the same question
is asked to the second player. At the end of a game round, the computer indicates the
winner. In the activity list, activities which offer the 2-player mode are marked with the
icon: .
Animated graphics and light effects
Light effects and animated graphics indicate your performance throughout a game
round. At the end of a game round, the number of lights on indicates your overall per-
formance.
Mission Mode
Test your grasp of the activities! Press the Mission key and answer questions randomly
chosen from the following activity groups: English, French and Maths. However, a mis-
sion contains questions from a single activity group only.
5 lights =
4 lights =
3 lights =
2 lights =
1 light
=
0 light
=
Fantastic! You are a champion!
Excellent. Well done!
Good! Continue the good work!
You can do better.
Poor performance. Concentrate!
Practice more often so that you can improve your performance.
ACTIVITY LIST
English
Guess the letter
A letter is drawn onscreen. Type it on your keyboard. Press to confirm your
answer.
There are 2 difficulty levels, level 2 being the most difficult.
Note: keep in mind that to key in capital letters, you must use the SHIFT key.
Word fun
3 words are displayed onscreen. Sort them in alphabetical order (according to the
position in the alphabet of the word’s first letter). Use the arrow keys to
highlight the first word in black and press . Once a word is selected, it moves
to the upper row. Proceed the same way to select the second word; the third one
is saved automatically. For example, let’s say you are given the following words:
fourteen, donkey, eleven. The first word is donkey since the letter ‘d’ comes first
in the alphabet before the ‘e’ of eleven and the ‘f’ of fourteen. Thus, the right
order is: donkey, eleven and fourteen.
There are 2 difficulty levels, level 2 being the most difficult.
One or Many?
A word is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Select whether its form is
singular ‘one’ or plural ‘many’. Toggle between ‘one’ and ‘many’ using the left and
right arrow keys, and press to confirm.
There are 2 difficulty levels, level 2 being the most difficult.
Opposites Fun
Find the opposite of the word displayed on top of the screen. Use the up and
down arrow keys to select the correct answer, and press . For example, the
opposite of ‘slow’ is ‘fast’.
There are 2 difficulty levels, level 2 being the most difficult.
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