ELTons 2022 Digital Innovation The Prime Machine HD (Finalist)

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Abstract

The Prime Machine HD is a free app for English language learning, teaching and research. It runs on iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows and macOS. It gives students and teachers access to multitudes of corpus examples that are organised and presented to make patterns of usage clear.

With tPM you can:

- Get hundreds of examples for words and phrases and view them on your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer;
- See how synonyms and related words are used differently;
- See frequency data and collocations;
- Play guess-the-missing-word games to build your knowledge of words and collocations;
- Use corpus examples for assignments, research or data-driven learning worksheets;
- Analyse a sentence, a text or a collection of texts using the DIY Text Tools.

It is available from the App Store, the Microsoft Store, Google Play and from www.theprimemachine.net.

On the website, there are free guides totalling 100 pages to use and adapt.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherThe British Council
EditionELTons Awards 2022
Media of outputOnline
Publication statusPublished - 30 Nov 2022

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