Homeschool English Level 2 (American)

Navigate your surroundings in English (American) as you build on the vocabulary and essential language structure in Level 1. Students learn to talk about their environment such as giving and getting directions, using transportation, telling time, dining out, and enjoying basic social interactions. Level 2 is a direct continuation of Level 1, and administrative tools provide parents with the necessary tools to create lesson plans and monitor and report on student progress.

What You Get
Sample Topics
Parent Administration Tools
English (American) Learning Tips
System Requirements

What's Inside the Box?

Application CD
Language CD
User’s Guide - Discusses the basics of the Rosetta Stone program
Parent’s Guide - Aids the parent in lesson planning, tracking student progress, and effectively using Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 in a homeschool environment
Headset with microphone
Quick Start Activation Card
Supplemental Education Materials CD includes printable files for:
- Table of contents
- Scripts for each lesson
- An index to all words in the program

Level 2 Examples

Sample Topics

Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Level 2 helps you to navigate your surroundings as you build on the vocabulary and essential language structure you learned in Level 1. Level 2 provides instruction in such categories as:

Directions, transportation, and telling time
Past and future tenses, adverbs, and formal imperatives
School subjects, months of the year, and social dialogues
Emotions
Sequencing with First/ Then/ Finally
Ordinal numbers
Spatial relationships

Parent Administrative Tools

Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Language program includes Parent Administrative Tools seamlessly integrated into the program. The Administrative tools assist parents in lesson planning, viewing student progress, and generating reports.

Lesson Planning

For many homeschooling parents, teaching a foreign language is a daunting task. Lesson planning can be difficult because many parents have never taught a foreign language course, and often times they do not speak the language the student is learning.

Rosetta Stone^® makes lesson planning easy with predefined lesson plans to help parents enroll students into their desired lesson plan based on their learning objective.

Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 offers a Full Year Lesson Plan and Alternative Paths of Study to provide you with the flexibility to meet your student’s language learning needs.

Full Year Curriculum

The Full Year Curriculum is intended to guide a student through one level of a language in a scholastic year. This curriculum integrates a comprehensive path through the software, suggested Cultural Activities from the Parent’s Guide and instruction materials to strengthen the student’s language learning experience. Though students will progress at different paces naturally, this path is great for students who wish to use each Level of Rosetta Stone for a one year course.

Alternate Paths of Study

There are eleven different paths of study to choose from based on your student’s learning objectives. Alternate paths exist for different skill focuses, such as listening and speaking, or reading and writing focus. While different students will progress at different paces through the program, generally by choosing an alternative path, students will progress through the program much more quickly than with the Full Year curriculum.

Testing

With Rosetta Stone^® Homeschool, Students are tested periodically as they move through their assigned lesson plans. Students automatically advance from exercises focused on specific language skills to tests.

As students progress through their assigned lesson plan, and reach the end of a lesson, they are tested with a review exercise, or test. Depending on the student’s score, the review exercise will then be repeated at a later time in the lesson plan. A student who scores lower will see the review exercise more quickly than a student who scores higher. Eventually, the review exercise will no longer be repeated after a student achieves a satisfactory score.

One of the greatest features of Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 is the Milestone Activity. Once a student has completed a Unit of material, they must complete a Milestone Activity. Milestones force the student to actually speak into the microphone and participate in conversation on screen. Milestone completion is essential to proceeding to the next Unit in Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.

Reporting

The built-in reporting tool gives parents the ability to view, print, and export student results. Information available in the report includes:

Exercises the student has completed
Current lesson progress
Scores achieved on exercises and tests
Time spent learning

More information regarding lesson planning, testing and reporting as well as a detailed sample schedule and cultural activities can be found in the Parent’s Guide included with every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.

About English (American)

English is spoken by more than 300 million people as a first language, and millions more speak it as a second language. American English is spoken throughout the United States and is widely understood by English speakers in other parts of the world.

English (American) Learning Tips

In both written and spoken English some pairs of words are combined into a shorter form, called a contraction. In spoken English, if a contraction exists for a pair of words, the full forms will be used relatively infrequently (mostly for emphasis). For example, the words “it is” are often written and pronounced “it’s.”
You’ll notice that English spelling is irregular, with the same sounds being written in different ways.
Sometimes words may be spelled the same but have different meanings and pronunciations. Rosetta Stone teaches you to distinguish between these words through context.
English nouns have singular and plural forms, but they don’t have masculine or feminine forms.

Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations

Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
512 MB RAM
1 GHz or faster processor speed
600 MB free hard-drive space (per level)
16-bit sound card
800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 recommended)
Internet or phone connection required for product activation
Speech recognition feature requires a headset microphone (USB recommended)
16X CD-ROM Drive (for installation)

Note for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ users:

Current Rosetta Stone® products have been engineered to install and run on the Windows Vista operating system. Some 3rd party components used in Rosetta Stone products have not been certified by Microsoft as ‘Vista Compliant’. Accordingly, you may encounter some Vista-related operating issues. Rosetta Stone technical support may or may not be able to resolve these Vista-related issues. Rosetta Stone hereby disclaims any representations, warranties, guaranties and conditions with respect to the compatibility of the Rosetta Stone products with the Windows Vista operating systems.