Rounding out your course with online

resources: Oxford Picture Dictionary, 3rd edition

Harcourt Settle
In this session:

1. What digital resources go with OPD?

2. How can we tailor lessons using the

OPD 3e to the current context?

3. Conclusions
Source: OPD3e CCR Skills Builder Handbook pg. 2
Teaching Adult Learners

• “Life skills”
• Postsecondary education
• Career training for family sustaining jobs
• Community & civic engagement/ citizenship

What defines your student population?

The Oxford Picture Dictionary 3rd
Edition
• 12 units, over 4,000 words, 421 verbs, and 
practice activities 

• Focus on Oxford 3000 vocabulary ensures 
students learn the most useful and 
important words

• Series Director: Jayme Adelson‐Goldstein & 
Norma Shapiro

• Expanded workplace preparation topics

• Meaningful communicative practice

• New smartphone research tasks

• Focus on brand new digital, financial and 
health topics that students need for success 
in the 21st century.
OPD3e Student eBook
• Can be used with a desktop, laptop,
or tablet via Oxford Learner’s
Bookshelf

• Embedded dictionary audio and

voice-record tool offer listening and
pronunciation practice

• Fill-in forms on the page provide

true-to-life contexts for students to
practice new vocabulary

• Additional practice activities with

automated feedback support
independent learning. Activities
focus on multilevel listening,
pronunciation, and grammar.
 OPD Teacher Resource Center
• A collection of downloadable resources that support the OPD vocabulary 
development program. Resources include:
• Lesson plans
• Class Audio
• Classroom Activities
• Assessment Program
- Customizable tests for every OPD
topic
- Print-and-go tests
- Question banks
• Videos
• Newsela Articles
• Images from the OPD
• Worksheets
- Listening
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
- Pronunciation
• Additional resources
- Vocabulary Teaching Handbook
- Workbook Answer Keys
- Correlations
- And more!
 OPD Teacher Resource Center

• Teachers can browse resources by topic, resource type or do a custom search to

find specific resources.
Lesson Planning
 PPP Teaching Methodology

Guided Individual/Team

Presentation Practice Production

Evaluation
Presentation
• 1. Write the words say, spell, print, and sign on the board. Demonstrate
each verb with your own name. Call on volunteers to do the same.

• 2. Have students open the OPD to pg. 4. Use the pictures to talk about
Carlos Soto.
Guided Practice
Pair practice
• 1. Copy the sample conversation from the bottom of pg. 4 on the board, leaving
blanks for the personal information.
• 2. Elicit other personal information to use in the conversations. To protect students’
privacy, write a fake Social Security number and the school’s address and phone
number on the board. Tell them to use the information in their practice.
 Internet Research
• Communicative Practice and Application
• INTERNET RESEARCH
• 1. Direct students to read the instructions at the bottom of pg. 4. Elicit the search terms they read
and write them on the board. Ask students if they know what SSA stands for. Ask them to look for
the answer on pg. 4. Write SSA = Social Security Administration.
Evaluation
• 1. Have students close their books and number in their notebooks from one to ten.
Ask questions and give instructions. Number one: What’s your last name? Number
two: Print your first name. Direct students to write the answers or responses.
• 2. Have students complete a partner’s personal information form. Direct them to ask
their partners for the information, listen to the responses, and write the information on
the form. Monitor and note areas where students need practice.

Assessment
• To create customized tests: Use the OPD Assessment Program.
Just a click away
Listening Activity
Pronunciation Activity
Final Thoughts

• Visuals can support meaning across learner levels.

• Having reliable materials can help when you need to

customize instruction.

• Opportunities for student paired practice are crucial,

group virtual meetings can help.
Questions?
Thank you
Harcourt Settle