This document introduces an electronic book and accompanying webpage about the story "The Gingerbread Man" created by three students. The e-book was designed using tools like PowerPoint, Audacity and Paint to provide an interactive experience for secondary students to practice their English reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. The webpage provides supplementary comprehension and vocabulary activities to support the content in the e-book.

1. Introduction to Our Electronic Book & Webpage on ‘The Gingerbread Man’ Presented by: Chung Yee Lin, Elaine; Syeda Momina Saleem, & Tejwani Arti Deepak.

2. Background An electronic book + a website Based on an English story ‘The Gingerbread Man’ Target student group: Secondary 1-2 Subject focused: English

3. Aims To facilitate and assist students’ English learning in an integrated manner through employing information technology To arouse students’ interests on developing the four language skills: reading, writing, listening & speaking To cultivate students’ generic skills, esp. in communication and collaborative skills. To enable students to self-learn

4. Objectives To enable students: To exercise their English reading and listening skills (e-book) To use IT as a tool in class and as a tutor outside class To enable students: To practise their English reading, writing and speaking

5. The E-Book (Electronic Book) E-book is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Advantages: Storage -- Less physical space is required to store e-books Reader-friendly --- size/font of the text can be changed. Cost effective – production does not consume the paper, ink, and other resources that are used to produce print books

6. The E-Book (Electronic Book) Disadvantages: Consumption of electricity – power needed Health issues – staring at a computer screen for a long time may cause eye trouble and sometimes headaches Device failure – may lose the e-book if the hard disk drive fails

7. Some Key Features of Our Design

8. The E-book To provide students with hands-on-experience activity. Features of the E-book includes: Microsoft PowerPoint- for creating the base of the E-book Audicity – for sound recording Paint – for cropping of the pictures Clip art on office online – for gathering pictures Shapes – for adding speech bubbles Slide number – for students to follow the right order (avoid skipping pages) Custom animations – Adding effects to: paragraphs pictures motion paths

9. An Illustration

10. And the children began to chase him, but the gingerbread man ran faster, and said, “Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t catch me! I’m the Gingerbread Man!” And the children couldn’t catch him.

11. The Webpage To provide supplementary activities for the E-book  Comprehension, vocabulary,