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PHASI CHAROEN, Thailand - May 9, 2014 - PRLog -- English Attack! is a totally new approach to learning English, developed by media and videogaming experts in collaboration with researchers in cognitive neuroscience.

It's fun and effective. Once you try it, you won't want to learn any other way.

Video Boosters are language exercises based on short videos rarely exceeding two minutes in length.

You can choose from clips of recent films or current TV series; music videos or items from international television news: whatever interests you most.

The Video Booster format is based on a series of progressively deeper contextual exercises.

Take a closer step-by-step look at how Video Boosters enable you to fully master the language elements of a video clip and thus help you to improve your English.

Prior to playing the video, you can see a summary of the target vocabulary items in the video clip.

This is a key initial step, as it allows you to focus on those words and expressions which are essential to a full understanding of the clip. The Vocab Quickview list is lmited to eight items, so as to allow you to retain them easily.

Scan the vocabulary items, read the definitions, and listen to how they are pronounced.

If you don't recognize one of the words, just hover over it with your cursor (or tap the word if you are using a touchscreen) to see its translation in your language.

The contextual translator works for all English language words on the site, including those in the given vocabulary definitions. It is available throughout all steps of the Video Booster.

You start the six steps of a Video Booster with a simple non-assisted play-through of the video.

Focus on the general idea or gist of the clip and try to recognize the words and expressions you've already seen in the Vocab Quickview.

You won't understand every word, which is absolutely normal. Don't worry about it: you'll see how we guide you through the video in the subsequent exercises.

You'll be surprised at how fast you will develop your oral comprehension if you play Video Boosters on a regular basis.

It's now time to test your general comprehension of the video clip through four simple questions.

The questions are designed to determine whether you have understood the basics of what is happening in the video. There is no need to have understood every word to answer them.

You can use the Video Playback and Vocabulary functions at any time during this exercise. Don't hesitate to switch between one and the other before moving to the next question.

In this exercise, you will fill in five gaps in the video transcript.

While completing the exercise, use the text on either side of the gap, using the contextual translator if neccessary, to see which answer makes most sense. You can also play the video at the same time as you fill in the gaps to hear the missing sentence segment.

At the end of Listening Lab, you will have completed the video transcript. You'll also see that having a written resource that goes with the video improves your understanding of it.

This video transcript resource will now be available to you for the rest of the Video Booster exercises.

Frequency over quantity: with over 1,000 Video Boosters to choose from, it's tempting to do exercise after exercise, but the most effective way to learn is to play one (or two) Video Boosters every day.

Now Mattayom students, teachers and schools can use the English Attack! platform for as little as .01 Baht per day per user = 365.00 Baht for a 12-month subscription.