Advantages: Good fun mini games Disadvantages: lack of multipllayer using a single card
== What Is My Word Coach?== My word coach is a game which is designed to help you develop your vocabulary, you train at the Word Training Institute where you learn new words and use these words in a number of games. Your score is given as an expression potential (EP) which is said to be a measure of how well you are able to express yourself. There are 16500 words in the word bank and you start off playing at an easy level and the words get gradually ... ...after around 30 plays so my target is 150 words. You start off with only missing letter and split decision unlocked but more games are unlocked as you progress. Here is an overview of the main games; Missing Letter: In this game, you are given a word with a missing letter and you write the letter on the touch screen using capital letters. Words include cutlass, witless, rhinestone, bollard, geophysicist and canasta at my current level. Split Decision: ...
wigglylittleworm 18.05.2009
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Advantages: Ideal for those with a passion for words and a commitment to learning Disadvantages: Limited game play especially within Multi-player
...Coach" developed by UBISOFT.
My Word Coach is a game designed to assist people of all ages and skills to increase their word power. The game is advertised as being a fun way to improve your vocabulary in order to learn new words in which to express our thoughts and ideas. My Word Coach has been created using the assistance of Thomas Cobb, a University Professor of Applied Linguistics and uses 16,800 words from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's dictionary. ... ...of 51%. The majority of my friends and family who've played the game have started with anywhere between 25% and 50%.
Commencing your training - When you commence training with the WTI (Word Training Institute within the Word Coach Game) you are asked to choose from one of four word coaches (different animations and comments) to assist with your daily training. I often find that mine disappears for a day or two and I can choose a replacement for ...
kelr101 22.02.2008
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Advantages: Develop Vocabulary Disadvantages: Controls, lack of extras, not great vlaue for most gamers
...and puzzles. My Word Coach is one of a number of "games" including My Spanish Coach and My French Coach, by Publisher Ubisoft that are aimed at helping develop language abilities.
>>>Guh!?
As with most of the "Educational Games", this one is based on some "Scientific" research and data. This time the game has been developed with the help of the Cambridge University Press and in particular, Dr Thomas Michael Cobb, a Professor of Applied Linguistic ... ...Graduate
Out of interest, my Expression Potential is 64%, which is still a lawyer, I'm hoping 65% will be something much more interesting…
So basically, My Word Coach is what it says on the tin (box!?), a game that will help develop you vocabulary and using the Expression Potential marking system reviews your progress and development. Read on and I shall reveal to you how this is achieved!
>>>Inside the WTI
Once you begin the game, it calculates ...
Dogbert 11.02.2008
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Advantages: Educational, mini games are fun to play Disadvantages: US dictionary, somtimes doesn't read the letters correctly you write with stylus
...the Nintendo DS educational product, My Word Coach, developed and published by Ubisoft. The aim of this product is that you play it each day to improve your daily score, which is represented by an expression potential measure. As you progress through the game, the aim is to increase this expression potential measure, although you will likely find it nearly impossible to reach 100%. As you progress through the game, there are more and more mini games ... ...keep up the interest in learning new phrases and spellings, such as block letter which is a tetris type game, and split decision, where you have to select the right meaning for a word. The controls in the game are easy to use, and for most of the game, you will need to use the stylus and touch screen. This is a much easier way of playing this game, especially in the mini games, where time is also of the essence. On occasion the programme didn't recognise ...
julwhite 21.07.2009
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* Play with words and letters with 6 Core Training Exercises: * Missing Letter (Words ... more
are missing letters: find back the good one to succeed.) * Split decision (Choose between several propositions the good definition for a word.) * Pasta lette...
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