The SITUATION

A host of sleeping bugs have been awoken by the intrusion of a solitary butterfly that has unintentionally wandered into their dark dungeon. They don't take kindly to their new intruder but are undecided about how to get rid of her.

They must be dealt with before she runs out of energy and has to land to rest, which would be fatal for her. Their is an open window somewhere in the room, but because of their harassment she cannot find it. The only solution is to eliminate the bugs one by one!

The OBJECTIVE

Release the imprisoned butterfly.

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INSTRUCTIONS

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Open the game by tapping on the butterfly in center page.

1)Press on icon "Go" to start.

2)Press on the center image to hear it's audio file.

3)From the slide menu at the bottom of the page, choose the fon that corresponds to the first vowel-sound that belongs in the first empty space in the Wordbox. Continue until all empty spaces are filled. Notice that 1 point is added to the yellow counter every time a fon is placed.

4)Each coloured fon in the Wordbox must now be pressed. In so doing, it's identical flying clones(there may be more than 1) wil be eliminated.

This results in automatically adding 1 point to the count in the orange box. When done, and before moving on, make sure that both counters(yellow and blue), are equal in value . Attention! If the totals at the end of the game are unequal, it means that there are still flyfons moving around, so you will be directed to start the game over again.

5)You may have noticed the dark grey "ghost" bars under each fon as it replaces the empty spaces in the Wordbox. One of them hides the white accent-bar, and must be tapped to expose it. You must listen carefully before choosing the right one: wrong guesses will detract 1 point in the black counter box.

6)Tap on the green arrow to take you to the next word.

7)On arriving on final page, if all is well, an orange window will appear - follow these instructions carefully.

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SOME DETAILS

a) The butterfly will only be freed after ALL flyfons are eliminated.

b) The slide menu exposes the whole range of fons when dragged from right to left and vice versa.

c) The order of replacing empty spaces with fons(step 3) in the Wordbox has no importance.

d) To listen to any individual fon sound, just use the small icon on the bottom right of the page to open up the slide menu.

TERMINOLOGY

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"Fons"

Refers to the collective name of all the coloured phonetic symbols, and are present in their entirety in the Fons slide menu.

"Flyfons"

These are fons that are constantly wandering(flying) inside the perimeter of the present page.

"Cons"

The Colorfon consanants (in white) that we use to constuct words in the Wordbox. Remember that they are phonetic versions of our alphabet consonants and don't always correspond with the correct spelling.

"Wordbox"

This grey bordered container is where we place the correct fons from the slide menu to constuct the Colorfon words.

"Accent"

Studying a foreign language is in general a great oportunity for us to understand the importance of accents. Although we aren't usually aware of them speaking our mother tongue, any word consisting of more than 2 vowels, ALWAYS needs 1 of them to be stressed or accentuated.

You may have already noticed the white underline in Colofon words from previous exercise - this is the accent-bar.

Listen carefully to each spoken word, and your ear will, in a short time, be able to distinguish the accented sylable(Fon sounds) from the other syllables. It's a very simple component of a language but an extremely important tool to implement if your aim is to speak English(or any language in fact), correctly.

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