Basic Skills in English
Publisher: AVP
For those who need to go over basic practical aspects of English on leaving school & starting work. Covers: Writing sentences, Punctuation, Layout, Abbreviations & symbols, How to deal with forms, Finding things out. Demonstrates difference between speech & writing, shows how to put ideas onto paper, how simple sentences are constructed etc.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-14
Ref: PB01-COM4006
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Crosswords for Windows
Publisher: Software Production Associates
Make 2 different types of puzzle: normal crossword with clues given for the across and down words; grid puzzle with lists of 3 letter, 4 letter, 5 letter words etc for the player to try to fit into a grid; or make puzzles which mix the 2 types. To make a crossword, type in your own words and clues, program then fits your words into the smallest size crossword that it can, or a larger one if you prefer. Add extra words from the built-in 70,000 dictionary then add your own clues for them. Crosswords can be printed out, or used on screen. Grid puzzles use the in-built dictionaries. Choose words from beginners dictionary suitable for younger players, or from standard 70,000 word dictionary. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 2, 3
Age range: 7-14
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Extr@ English DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Extr@ English is the story of Bridget and Annie, Hector and Nick, four good-looking 19-22 year olds who are thrown together to play out their romances, life crises and contrasting interests in a familiar sitcom setting. Cleverly scripted language and plenty of visual humour guarantee enjoyment and learning at the same time. The two girls share a flat in London and Nick is their neighbour. When Hector, with only a very basic grasp of English, comes to visit, everything starts to go wrong. Or right! He speaks basic English and is keen to improve whilst learning about life in London. His efforts to get to grips with the language provide the central dynamic for the series and its language learning content. Key features: carefully scripted dialogue that can be clearly understood without being patronising, engaging 'sitcom' format, clearly spoken language, lots of repetition, 2 on-screen summaries per programme using email technique to review the story so far, caters for different abilities, motivates students. This series is on 6 DVDs, each containing 5 episodes, broken down into chapters, with the choice to view with or without English subtitles or the laughter track. DVD 1 covers: Hector's Arrival, Hector Goes Shopping, Hector Has a Date, Hector Looks for a Job, A Star is Born. DVD 2 covers: Bridget Wins the Lottery, The Twin, The Landlady's Cousin, Jobs for the Boys, Annie's Protest. DVD 3 covers: Holiday Time, Football Crazy, A Wedding in the Air, Changes, The Bouncer. DVD 4 covers: Uncle Nick, Cyber Stress, Just the Ticket, Kung Fu Fighting, Every Dog has Its Day. DVD 5 covers: The Entertainers, Haunting at Halloween, Truth or Dare, Pilot Nick, Art. DVD 6 covers: Alibi, Can you live Without, Christmas, Camping, Love Hurts. Workbooks and Teachers Guides are also available. Workbook 1 has exercises and practice material for Episodes 1-15 (DVDs 1-3), Workbook 2 has equivalent material to support Episodes 16-30 (DVDs 4-6). The workbooks provide tests and exercises covering all key grammar and vocabulary from each episode. The Teachers Guide is designed to help you use the workbooks that accompany the series, and contains answer keys and suggestions for using the programmes for all 30 episodes, and also includes a section on contemporary English terms that students may encounter throughout the series. Suitable for EFL, ESL and TEFL. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video Interactive
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-19
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ICT Activities for English
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Activities included in these packs help teachers meet the ICT requirements of the English National Curriculum at Key Stage 4. Pack includes extensive teachers notes explaining how to make the most of the activities, with easy access resource banks providing everything that is needed to complete them.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 14-16+
ISBN: 435108670
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Idiom Track
Publisher: Semerc
The Track Series is an innovative collection of CD-ROMs and workbooks for all learners, including those with specific learning difficulties. Idiom Track aims to identify and explore English idioms by illustrating real and literal meanings. Suitable for pupils with speech and language difficulties, and for those learning English as an additional language. Other titles in the series include: Spell Track, Phoneme Track, Eye Track, Word Track, Alphabet Track and Number Track, see separate entries for full details. Interactive Whiteboad compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM, Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 2
Age range: 7-11
ISBN: 1406012343
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Jacqueline Wilson Trilogy DVD
Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education
Endorsed by the National Literacy Association’s Guide to Literacy Resources 2003. Best Children’s Fiction Award RTS 2003. Winner International Emmy 2004. Winner BAFTA Children’s Film and Television Awards 2004. Two of Jacqueline Wilson’s dramas are now available on DVD with extra Popular Writers documentary included. What’s So Good About Jacqueline Wilson (Documentary), 2 x 15 minute programmes: Jacqueline Wilson invites us into her book filled home to show how she writes her books and develops her ideas. Her books touch on important and sensitive subjects such as homeless families, children in care, bullying and bereavement, but always maintain humour and a lightness of touch appropriate to her audience. DOUBLE ACT: 1 x 100 minute programme. Curriculum Connections: Narrative structure, character, setting, dialogue and plot, storytelling through dramatisation, study of media texts. Jacqueline Wilson weaves a charming, sensitive and often hilarious story about ten year old twins Ruby and Garnet growing up and finding their own identities. The girls look alike but have very different personalities. Everything starts to change when their widowed dad brings home Rose, his new partner. They move to the country, but the girls, particularly Ruby, find country life difficult to cope with, so they make plans to sneak off to the big city to audition for a TV series and apply to a posh boarding school. But the girls’ best efforts do not go according to plan. THE ILLUSTRATED MUM: 4 x 25 minute programmes. Curriculum Connections: Gives insights into the author’s craft, setting, mood and character, the structuring of text. Promotes listening, reflection and discussion. Develops opportunities for writing. Explores PSHE themes of growing up, family relationships and mental illness. Dolphin’s remarkable coming of age in The Illustrated Mum won Jacqueline Wilson the 1999 Guardian Prize for children’s fiction. At its core is the intimate exploration of what happens when children are forced to take on all the roles that parents are usually expected to deliver. Deep down Dolphin knows the truth about her mother, Marigold, that she suffers from a mental illness. Starring Michelle Collins as Marigold. Interactive Whiteboard compatible. FREE PREVIEW: this DVD is available on 14 day FREE PREVIEW, simply click the option below - an invoice will be issued for any items retained after this time.
Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 2, 3
Age range: 7-14
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Micro English (GCSE and EFL)
Publisher: LCL
MICRO ENGLISH (8 years - GCSE, ESOL and Literacy). Features: 3D Videos, No need to install; Spelling, Punctuation, English Grammar, Reading, Writing, Oral Communication, Literacy and ESOL (English as a foreign language); Extensive Speech. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 2, 3, 4
Age range: 8-16+
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Muddles
Publisher: Software Production Associates
Children are shown a puzzle, poem, problem or simple story in which each line has been muddled up, they have to decipher the muddle, then answer a question about it. Involves them in different types of linguistic skills: hunting for letters, using all kinds of contextual clues. Muddles can be made by teachers or children, examples provided. Lines can be muddled in different ways. Stimulates language skills, promotes discussion and working together. Includes example muddles on moral problems, questions of stereotyping, problems of deduction and inference. For use with children (or adults!) of any age and special needs, allows you to enter accented characters for foreign languages. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 1, 2, 3
Age range: 5-14
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Rigby Navigator Interactive Comprehension
Publisher: Rigby Educational Publishers
Provides specially written comprehension questions on every Navigator book. Questions help to develop childrens skills in literal deductive inferential and evaluative comprehension, all within a fun, interactive environment. The Interactive Comprehension CD ROMs will help you: Build essential comprehension skills in a fun, motivating way. Prepare children for the new SATs. Integrate ICT into your literacy teaching with questions directly linked to the Navigator books. Prepare and manage your lessons, following the same structure as your Navigator lessons. Monitor childrens progress so you can target your teaching to their needs. Save time by providing computer marked questions and easy to read reports. Fiction and Non-Fiction Packs available for Years 3-6.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 2
Age range: 7-11
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Rigby Star Shared Interactive Big Books
Publisher: Rigby Educational Publishers
This series consist of two CD ROMs offering a selection of Big Book titles, enabling you to customise and integrate the use of ICT into your shared reading lessons. Simple tools for highlighting annotating the text. Can be used with a large monitor projector or interactive whiteboard. Ideal for use with the whole class or groups of children. DISC 1 contains the Big Book titles: It's the Weekend; Wheels, Wings and Other Things; Look for me in This ABC; Whose Baby? DISC 2 contains the Big Book titles: I Wish I Had a Monster; Three Friends Together; Our Whale-Watching Trip; Asha in the Attic.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 1
Age range: 5-7
ISBN: 433044322
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Skills in English Framework Edition
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Interactive Student CD-ROMs. Meets all the ICT requirements of the National Curriculum for English Key Stage 3. Enables you to develop students' skills in English and consolidate the Framework objectives using ICT. Pop-up information boxes help students with their ICT skills as they go along, leaving you free to develop their English skills. Totally flexible, the CD-ROMs are linked to activities in the Skills in English Student Books, but can also be used completely independently. 4 Discs available: Disc 1, Disc 2, Disc 3G (NC Levels 3-5), Disc 3R (NC Levels 5-8).
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 3
Age range: 11-14
ISBN: 435192736
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Speaking and Listening
Publisher: Birchfield Interactive plc
3 CD pack contains highly visual, ready to use software program, complete with comprehensive information on topics supported by images, video scenarios, tests, activities. For individuals, groups or whole class when combined with Interactive Whiteboard. Library of digital resources to create lessons, websites, worksheets to suit your lesson plans. Simply export to PowerPoint or other applications. All resources SCORM compliant, can be uploaded to any Virtual Learning Environment. Assessment feature enables monitoring & tracking of pupils performance through sections and activities. Pupils results can be displayed in graphs, charts, or exported to Excel. Offers: Straightforward user friendly interface, Assessment tracking, Extended question zone containing exam style questions, Library of digital content, High quality 3D animations, Differentiated activities, Video footage, Quiz zone, Teachers zone, Printable certificates, Mask/unmask and show/hide text features. Features content on the following topics: Group presentations, Individual presentations, Structure, Gesture, Tone, Pace, Different audiences & contexts, Evaluation of performance. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+
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Test for Success: English Series
Publisher: DK Interactive Learning
Ultimate revision tool packed with in-depth questions, clear explanations, stunning graphics, animations. Features: all questions written by practising teachers; all questions and graphics reviewed by department heads; detailed explanations for each question; feedback on strengths and weaknesses etc. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 2
Age range: 7-11
ISBN: 075131868X
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Writers
Publisher: Learning and Teaching Scotland
For pupils who find the prospect of producing a report, essay, or simple story, rather daunting. Shows how to plan writing to give it a suitable structure, allowing them to construct their writing in stages, recognising that different types of writing have different approaches. Support is given at every stage from getting ideas down to formatting the final piece of work. Differentiates between 3 main types of writing: imaginative, personal, functional; covering total of 13 types of writing. Pupils focus on who will be reading their finished work, helpful tips are provided at relevant stages on how to write for that type of audience. Guidance is given on the most appropriate layout and style for that particular type of writing. Suitable for learning support. Includes user guide.
Format: Windows CD-ROM Mac CD-ROM
Key stage: 2, 3
Age range:
Ref: L0138
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Writing for Change
Publisher: Directory of Social Change
Complete course in writing skills for fundraisers, campaigners, anyone who needs to communicate ideas effectively in writing. Core skills: basics of reports, memos, emails, letters. Advocacy: producing articles leaflets, newsletters, press releases, documents for campaigning, persuading. Science: writing for publication, contributing to journals, proof correcting. For self-access, group learning.
Format: Windows / Mac CD-ROM
Age range: 16+
ISBN: 953690210
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