PART 4: Citizenship Lessons

In this part you study the U.S. history and government information you need to know for the citizenship test.

Each of the 10 lessons is a good length for busy people. You can learn vocabulary and practice recording yourself saying the words or definitions. The proven listen-speak-compare process helps you improve if you need help with English pronunciation. If you’d rather listen than read, you can listen to all the lesson material.

After you’ve studied each lesson, you can take a quiz. The quizzes are multiple choice format and you can hear any question and any answer as many times as you like. You have two tries to get the right answer and the program keeps score for you. If you take the quiz again, the questions and answers are given in a different order.

If you’d like to study this material away from the computer, you can print a lesson or a quiz and read it anywhere.

Part of what you need to know is the name of your state governor, state capital, and your two U.S. senators. In Lesson 10, you can click on your state on a map and find out this information. You can click on the names of the senators, the governor, or the state capital to hear them pronounced. And you can record yourself saying their names.
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This is a sample screen from one of the ten history and government lessons (Lesson 3, Becoming a Country) of Part 4 of Road to Citizenship showing page one of the lesson text. Click on the icon of a "little guy". and the text on the page is spoken.

At the top right of the screen is a navigation palette. Clicking on these buttons takes you to various parts of the lesson.

The lesson text contains the facts you need to know to take the citizenship exam..

Some of the key words (or phrases) are highlighted. If you click on one of these highlighted words or phrases, a dialog box opens showing the word and its definition. You can hear both of these spoken.
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This sample screen from Lesson 3 (Becoming a Country) of Section 4 shows the Word List exercise.

On the left of the screen is a scrollable field containing the word list for this lesson. Clicking on one of the items in this list displays the word and its definition on the right. Click on the "little guy" preceding the word or definition to hear it spoken.

At the bottom right of the screen is the recording palette.

The program allows you to record yourself saying the word or definition and then play it back to hear yourself or to hear the model recording immediately followed by your recording. This proven listen-imitate-compare method gives you practice speaking English clearly.

This sample screen shows the Self-Quiz Exercise for Lesson 3 of Section 4.

At the top left of the screen is the question. Under this are the five possible answers. Click on the "little guy" at the top left to hear the question spoken or click on the "little guy" preceding an answer to hear that answer spoken..

You click on the answer you think is correct and the program tells you whether you were right or not. You have two attempts at each question. As you go through the quiz, your results are displayed on the score board on the right.

You can take the quizzes as many times as you wish. The questions are randomly chosen and the answers are always scrambled. This exercise helps you determine how well you understand the material presented in the lesson.
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