Preparation

The Grammar Express app is essentially a few different apps. The apps themselves are specific to a part of grammar. They include nouns, parts of speech, tenses, and active and passive voice. There are more apps available, those are the ones that were already on my iPad.

The Nouns app has a little book icon on the upper right of the app. This is a guide to teach the user about the different types of nouns. Once a person is acquainted with them, he or she can then take the general noun test. This would be beneficial in a classroom because the student can get immediate feedback and the teacher could see how well a student is doing just by looking at the pie chart that is automatically created on the main page of the app. The other Grammar Express apps are the same thing, just over different material. There are more test options available if the user pays for full versions of the apps. I think this app would be very beneficial for review situations for students, or as a sense of classwork to make sure that students understand things that were already taught within a lesson.

I found the dictionary app to be quite useful. It offers an audible pronunciation of a word as well as definitions, synonyms, origin and history, and learners that use the word in sentences and explain the meaning of the word. The app also allows for a word to be translated and there is a thesaurus to be used. There are many other things that can be done in the app. I found the ease of use and all of the ways to have a word explained to be very helpful. This could be a good app when students are working with vocabulary words or even that they can refer to if they do not understand a word that is within a book that they are reading.