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English By Television or Computer!!
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English By Television or Computer!!
Do you want to improve your English skills for TOEFL, for college English, for work or
pleasure? Would you like to have your own private native speaking teacher? Here is a new,
enjoyable and effective way to learn English. . .and a lot more.
On-line, theme-based courses, give you practice with all four language skills -- reading,
writing, listening and speaking -- and also give you information about a subject that
interests you, such as popular culture, global issues and international business. The
Distance-ESL courses allow you to understand more fully the meanings underlying the
language, especially idioms. Therefore, you can develop critical thinking skills, the art
of analyzing academic or professional writing, and your own creative abilities. Each
course requires your active participation, so you anchor both your language skills and the
course content.
The Distance-ESL courses are tutorial, so you are in direct contact with the instructor --
primarily through electronic mail (via computer) and/or by fax and mail. This system
allows easy access and communication between you and your teacher and allows the teacher
to custom-design the course to your individual needs. You can choose when and how to study
for the best results. Each course includes appropriate study materials, such as videos,
audio tapes, and printed materials. Most courses can be adapted to your own English level.
All Distance -ESL courses are content-based and provide study of all the English
language skills: reading, writing, listening and pronunciation. Because they are content
based, they allow the student to study English as well as a subject that interests them.
All Distance -ESL courses are tutorial. They are conducted on a one-to-one basis between
the student and the instructor. There is no limit to the access the student has to the
teacher.
All Distance -ESL courses cost $85.00 per week from the receipt of materials, plus the
cost of materials and postage. All courses have a 4 week minimum. Group/Class discounts
are available.
All Distance -ESL teachers answer through Distance -email, and all student work is
returned (by fax or post) fully corrected for grammar and spelling.
Students with specific interests or needs not covered by our courses should inquire about
designing an individual course.
ELT TELEVISION PROGRAMMING
PROGRAM NAME: Family Album, U.S.A.
Family Album, U.S.A. is a 26-episode educational television series designed to teach the
English language in an entertaining and effective way. It was created by a unique team of
leading ELT academics and Emmy Award- winning television producers, and has aired in over
50 countries, including the United States (on PBS), Japan (on NHK), France (on FR3), Korea
(on KBS), Brazil (on TV Cultura), Germany (WDR), and most of Latin America, Europe,
Africa, and Asia.
The series focuses on the lives of the Stewarts, a "typical" American family, as
they experience universal and important events in their lives, such as going to college,
getting married, etc. The series was designed to appeal to an international audience.
Major features:
Each of the 26 episodes is 24 minutes, and is divided into three acts and tells a complete
story. (Use the remaining six minutes to adapt the program to fit the needs of your
market.)
High-interest soap opera format
Broadcast quality
Entertaining as well as educational
Two full-color Viewer's Guides for home-viewer use will support your broadcast with
complete television scripts and notes and activities on vocabulary, pronunciation, and
grammar.
Family Album is the most extensive, best produced, most widely used and proven English
Language Teaching television series in the world. If your station is considering adding
educational English language teaching programming to its schedule, contact us for a
promotional video and written specifications.
"Practice Talking To America"
"Talking To America"
The Voice of America's Russian language call-in show, "Talking To America," is
broadcast every Tuesday at 2100 Moscow time. The topics of the show vary: in the past we
have broadcast shows on immigration, the consequences of Chernobyl, separation of church
and state, student exchanges, freedom of the press,rights of the disabled, the role of the
military, human rights, NATO expansion, the role of the Red Cross, sexual harassment,
Russians in America.
You can call us collect from Moscow: just call 938-6133 and ask the operator to call Washington DC collect at 202-619-0649. If you live outside of Moscow, dial 8-095 first. You will have to pay for the call to Moscow.
If you live in Ukraine, just dial 8-10016, ask the operator to connect
you with us COLLECT at 202-619-0649.<Picture>Or, you can E-mail us at beseda@voa.gov
with your questions to our talk show. For the time being, you will have to write us in
English--or in Russian with Latin letters. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Or, you can E-mail us at beseda@voa.gov with your questions to our talk show. For the time
being, you will have to write us in English--or in Russian with Latin letters. We are
looking forward to hearing from you.
WORLDNET SATELLITE ACCESS
EUROPE
CURRENT
SCHEDULE - CLICK HERE
Europe (Ku-Band)
HOTBIRD I (HB1)
13 deg. East
12566 GHz Digital
(0900-1430 UTC Monday-Thursday, 0830-1430 UTC Friday, PAL)
For further information, contact:
WORLDNET Television and Film Service
U.S. Information Agency
330 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20547 USA
Telephone: +1 (202)260-2596
Fax: +1 (202)690-5130
Or your local United States Information Service office.
If any user needs technical assistance during this process, the
following customer service representative will be available in
Washington, D.C. on a call-up basis to assist: George Cantalupo at
(202)401-2440.
Crossroads Café is another dynamic television and
print series for adult EFL and ESL distance instruction. Learners who wish to move past
"beginning" English can watch and learn from this highly entertaining program
that mixes equal portions of entertainment and education, using the 'real' language of
modern American society.
Designed as an English-by-Video program for adults, Crossroads Café presents a small cast
of characters whose lives center on a small diner owned by a Romanian refugee, Victor
Brashov. As the series unfolds in the first episodes, he hires staff from varying
backgrounds: a divorced mother juggling her children's lives; a strong-willed
Mexican-American cook; a Chinese-American high school student who works part-time as a
delivery boy; an Egyptian engineer, underemployed as a handyman; and a retired
African-American postal worker. The programs are woven with their day-to-day problems,
many of which are very real in American society. There are problems of working couples and
estranged family members; teenage love and parental conflicts; cultural adjustments and
dreams fulfilled. All of the topics are handled with an eye on depicting an authentic
aspect of a problem in contemporary society in the United States without being too serious
or too light-hearted.
Each episode has two enriching video segments: Culture Clip, which focuses on a related
cultural issue, and Word Play, a demonstration and explanation of appropriate language use
from the episode.
Home viewers can follow the series with an easy-to-read, comic-book format in the
Crossroads Cafe Photostories books A and B. There is also a classroom book, Crossroads
Café Worktexts A and B. Heinle & Heinle/ITP publish the print materials, and
videotape distribution is possible through the producer.
The series was produced by INTELECOM, an award-winning educational television production
company established by a consortium of California colleges. Production design and support
came from the state education departments of California, Illinois, Florida, and New York.
The U.S. federal Department of Education has also supported the program with an evaluation
study that demonstrated the program's usefulness in Adult education. The non-profit
educational television network in the United States, PBS, has been broadcasting Crossroads
Café nationwide since August 31. The United States Information Agency is pleased to have
been involved in the series' development, and now in its international broadcast.
Crossroads Café will appear in most instances on cable television channels, so viewers
should consult local cable listings. Broadcast times are included in the worldwide
broadcast schedule.
ESL/EFL publishers catalogs
Many EFL publishers are on the Internet, with web and gopher sites, and some will even
accept credit card orders online.
Addison Wesley/Longman
Alta Book Center Publishers
Cambridge University Press ESL
Delta Systems
Heinle & Heinle Publishers Home Page
McGraw-Hill (general info; to search for authors & titles, try the McGraw-Hill
gopher).
Prentice Hall Regents
Pro Lingua Associates
The University of Michigan Press
A list of all above
publishers.