The CD-ROM version of The New Oxford Picture Dictionary adds sound, animation and interactive exercises to the illustrations from the printed book. Fully interactive topic pages allow students to click on any of the objects in the picture to access the spoken and written form of the word. Interactive exercises and activities help students to increase their wordpower and improve their comprehension skills. And tests and games which involve the linking of picture and word, picture and sound, and sound and word, are available. The vocabulary is put into context in the short texts and dialogues of the 'Read, Listen and Speak' activities.
Students can take part in the dialogues, record their own voice and compare it with the original.
Macintosh with 256 colours 640x480 display, System 7 or later, minimum 8 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive. The second language appears in blue ink alongside the English word, with a complete second-language index included at the back of the book. A monolingual English version is also available.