English Language

Publisher: 4 Learning / Espresso Education

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. Suitable for EFL, ESL and TEFL.

DVD 1 : Hector's Arrival, Hector Goes Shopping, Hector Has a Date, Hector Looks for a Job, A Star is Born
DVD 2 : Bridget Wins the Lottery, The Twin, The Landlady's Cousin, Jobs for the Boys, Annie's Protest
DVD 3 : Holiday Time, Football Crazy, A Wedding in the Air, Changes, The Bouncer
DVD 4 : Uncle Nick, Cyber Stress, Just the Ticket, Kung Fu Fighting, Every Dog has Its Day
DVD 5 : The Entertainers, Haunting at Halloween, Truth or Dare, Pilot Nick, Art
DVD 6 : Alibi, Can you live Without, Christmas, Camping, Love Hurts

Workbooks and Teachers Guides are also available - Workbooks provide tests and exercises covering all key grammar and vocabulary from each episode; Teachers Guide is designed to help you use the workbooks:
Workbook 1 : exercises and practice material for Episodes 1-15 (DVDs 1-3)
Workbook 2 : equivalent material to support Episodes 16-30 (DVDs 4-6).
Teachers Guide : answer keys and suggestions for using the programmes for all 30 episodes, also includes section on contemporary English terms that students may encounter throughout the series.

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Format: DVD Video Interactive
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-19

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.

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Format: DVD Video
Key stage: 2, 3
Age range: 7-14

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Welcome to the new world of literacy and learning. Questia School opens a new world of digital learning and literacy with a full text 77,000+ volume online resource enhanced by research and productivity tools, lesson plans, staff training, 24/7 access and more.

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Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Students and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia.

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Questia provides users with an ideal online supplement to their existing library collection. Designed to provide students with easy access to the collection via the Internet, and to help research across topics both broad and narrow, Questia can improve how students formulate topics, do research, and write papers. Questia contains the full text of all books in the collection, including the front and back matter.

The digital format of the collection provides access to all works in the collection no matter how many users are reading the texts or when and where they wish to do their work. Thus, users will have access to materials that you may not have in your collections or that are missing, checked out, or on reserve. For distance learners and working or part-time students who can't use library facilities during regular hours, Questia is the long-awaited answer. Students can use the Questia collection 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from any computer with an Internet connection.

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Format: Online
Key stage: 4, 5
Age range: 14-18+

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Format: Online
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+