Making Friends

 

Year published/aired: 2013 ?

Year produced/filmed:

# of episodes: ?

Grade: 6e (A1-A2)

Genres: basics, grammar

Sub-subject: culture

Broadcaster: -

Production company:

Producer: 

Story: Jean-Louis Habert, others

Editor:

Director: 

Media: DVD

Media distribution: Belin Education

Additional media: books, audio CDs 

Working material: 

Material publisher:

Novel available:

Other literature:

Plot (short): Another French course by Editions Belin. I think for 6th grade only. The video DVD should be included in the "manual" (probably manuel d'eleves avec CD, the student's book) and there's a pack of 3 Audio CDs (89 audio tracks) depicting screenshots but probably not containing videos. 

Story filmed in the UK. Main characters obviously the boy (Jack 13 yo from Scotland ?) and a girl (Emily 10 yo from England). The cute blue little alien robot is called Zero (age 125 from planet YZ932) . The vision turns blueish when watched by Zero. I found a 9 minutes official clip on YouTube called Making Friends 6e - Présentation de la méthode. Also showing some others in a class at school.

At least 5 units. Unknown amount of videos. I only found very few book samples.

Episodes: ~4 minutes each clip

Issues 2

Contrary to the tool collections of Issues 1, I just have the red teacher's book (cover is text only) which is about all the 5 separate student's books. 1979, grade 9. Very long intro (concept info and overview), Also see Issues 1. The audio recordings were not just broadcasted by Radio Bremen but also recorded by them (and released by FWU). Plots:

-Booze (teen and adult alcoholism, incl 4 cases, 4 interviews (1 doctor) and 1 bio, survey, newspaper report)
-The Camberwell Case (crime at drug store, picture story, reports, questionings, prejudice, map, role play)
-Holiday Industry (holiday planning for England, radio interviews, ads, sales dialogues, maps, surveys) Blackpool and 3 Scottish Ski places incl. Granton-on-Spey
-Horror (noises ?, pics, newspaper, Vampire comic, Vampire info, short story MR James: The Ash Tree, Nightmares, write a play)
-Visions of Freedom (historical US slavery) dialogues, literature, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Adam Starr's Journal, song Go Down Moses, Nat's sermon (Nat Turner), photos. 

No illustrations in the teacher's book, just many boxes like in Issues I. Instructions are a mix of German and English texts. Much more advanced like Issues 1 (grade 8). 

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2024/04/update-issues.html

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2021/07/issues-i.html

Update: Issues

 

I was curious and I bought the students book 1 of Issues 1 (1976) and the teacher book (Lehrerhandreichungen) of Issues 2 (1979). As assumed, there are no movies, but at least some audio recordings (by FWU on audio reels and cassettes) which have been recorded and broadcasted on radio (Schulfunk) by Radio Bremen. These kits (Baukästen) were collections of materials to be used at schools. Some stories are based on other books and maybe some turned into movies, or could be.

There were also workbooks for students. The student's book of Issues 1 has 38 pages (A4), the teacher book 64 including 25 pages of concept info and overview and no illustrations beside these boxes. Issues 2 has 5 deeper stories. More about that in a separate post.

The contents of the workbooks (dark grey) are included in the student book as well just smaller.

The cover story in 10 short scenes is about a holiday camp in Denmark. Main character is 14 yo Caroline Redcliffe from Canterbury with at least 2 (younger ?) brothers. She met a Danish boy. Also about 14 yo Roland Schmidt from Frankfurt. Some very short plots, shop, disco etc. Few simple illustrations and multiple choice tasks.

The picture story is a comic of another boy+girl, 6 boxes.

Then there's a short story (Farewell to the Soldiers), set in 1812 about a teen romance, 4 pages, also on audio.

Finally 4 pop songs by teen Darren Burn with lyrics and simple illustrations and then vocabulary.

In total rather poor (nowadays) and just like school books.

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2021/07/issues-i.html

Update: Go Ahead

 

I did some more research about Go Ahead 8 (grade 8) as the book cover has handsome teens (see main post).

As mentioned, Go Ahead 5 has the same kids as in English G Lighthouse 1 (and related series). 

I now found this clip in a book preview. But this is taken from a short film called

How Tommy Lemenchick Became a Grade 7 Legend. Full movie is 12 minutes. Probably there are just some short clips on Go Ahead 8. But still interesting. Probably some more clips. And probably same as English G Lighthouse 4. I think there are few previews of OOP versions of Go Ahead. Some earlier 90s/00s issues don't have DVDs

Main entry

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2022/08/go-ahead.html

Camden Road

Year published/aired: 2024

Year produced/filmed: 2023?

# of episodes:  23 clips (grade 5)

Grade: 5

Genres: basics, grammar

Sub-subject: Everyday's situtations

Broadcaster: -

Production company: Miguel Amortegui

Producer: Miguel Amortegui

Story: 

Editor: 

Director: 

Media: DVD/online resources

Media distribution: Westermann (Diesterweg)

Additional media: books, audio CDs, DVD-ROMs

Working material: 

Material publisher: Westermann

Novel available:

Other literature:

Plot (short): A new course for (currently only) grade 5. Published in March 2024. For Bavarian middle schools (Realschule).

There is currently 1 teacher DVD which is in fact a DVD-ROM. Earlier courses are Camden Market Junior for grades 3-4, Camden Market, Camden Town (incl. Camden Town Advanced, 3 DVDs for teachers UK/USA) and Notting Hill Gate. And Portobello Road, London Bridge. Not all have DVDs. Camden Town has student's workbooks with DVDs.

On the official book preview there is the code (page 2) for watching all videos in HD. Not sure if this is a mistake. 6 units. In total 23 short clips, I think 15-23 are text only. There are some more data on the DVD-ROM including audio files and maybe scripts and solutions.

Episodes: ~ 5 minutes each

1. This is my pet (older teen boy+girl)

2. This is Gracies Room 

5. Breakfast Time (interviews)

6. A School Day in GB (incl gym) Midhurst Rother College

7. Celebrating Birthdays (interviews of different people old +young, incl. freckled boy George) 

9. Unit: Our sports (play golf with Jake...)

12. At Camden Market (girl Alex and boy Sam, pictured) 5'48"

15-23: Text only

23: Die einfache Vergangenheit von be

English G 21 What's in? What's on? What's up?

 

This is a 2 part DVD series, abbreviated as WWW, for the long running Cornelsen school book series English G21 (2010- ~2018). There were also different books for these DVDs called Unterrichtsideen zum Film mir Kopiervorlagen (handouts, script etc). For 3 different book editions (depending on German state) A, B and D,  DVD "Band 3" is for grade 7, Band 4 is for grade 8. Main author:  Barbara Derkow-Disselbeck. Movie production Tellus Vision. Director Anna Nordqvist. 

Luckily I found one movie (full clip/trailer) about 11 youngster from Orkney on caledonia.tv (Over the Sea to School) Band 3. Series director for that series: Les Wilson. That full series has 13 episodes.

Band 3: (OOP)

1. London 9'35

Photo: Montage: London 2'00"

Movie: Notting Hill (at the market) 1'33 (Universal LLLP)

Movie: Notting Hill (traffic scene) 0'55

Photos+docu: London street markets 1'17

Movie/interview: Extra: Brick Lane 3'48 (The Works TSC)

2. Scotland 10'34

Movie: William Wallace 0'35

docu: Over the Sea to School (Orkney Island) 2'00 Caledonia TV

docu Over the Sea (A typical school day) 2'38

music video: Travis Music Video 1'06

3. Up North 9'19

docu: I love MCR (Introduction) 0'57 (Manchester, Channel M)

docu: I love MCR (Youth Hostels) 0'36

photo: Montage: Manchester Football 0'28

Movie: Goal 0'27 (Goal Acquisitions)

docu: Making of Goal 1'42

4. Canada 10'58

docus by BC Pictures (Dragonboat, Toronto)

movie 3 clips: Fly Away Home (1996 movie)

5. Music, music, music 12'55

movies The Commitments (auditions), Fame, School of Rock, The Commitments (Mustang Sally)

 

Band 4: (sample PDF from offical website)

1 New York (17'20")

Movie: Hester Street 3'29

Movie: You've Got Mail 2'36

docu: 24 Hours in NYC 4'15

docu: 9/11 1'27

docu Extra: Firefighter Interview 1'30

2 California (13'08)

Docu: Earthquakes 3'13

Movie: 1.5 2'10

docu BBC Planet Earth 2'15

photo montage: Montage: California 0'39

3 Smalltown USA 10'51

photos: Montage Smalltowns 0'51

comedy: The Andy Griffith Show 1'20

TV series: Everwood 1'01

musical film: High School Musical (detention) 1'47

musical film: High School Musical (music scene) 0'46

(4 Atlanta) ...

Other DVDs were (1st with pic)

Out and About 1+2

Viewing

 

Get Involved!

 

Year published/aired: 2021

Year produced/filmed:

# of episodes: ~9 units per level  x3

Grade: A1+ -B2

Genres:  basics, everyday's situations

Sub-subject: grammar

Broadcaster: -

Production company:

Producer:

Story: Kate Pickering, others

Editor:

Director: 

Media: digital only

Media distribution: Macmillan 

Additional media: books, ebook, class Audio CD, game,

Working material: Kate Pickering, others

Material publisher: Macmillan

Novel available:

Other literature: 

Plot (short):  A six-level secondary course. American and British English. I think videos only as digital content. Photo 1 from official book sample. Level A2, unit 7 (Real-world speaking: Giving Opinions". Also good Level A1 unit 2 (Elena and Owen sitting). In A1+ Me and My Family is probably a young redhaired boy called Martin Cane. (Not sure if shown in a video). Around 3 videos in each unit.

On YouTube I found "Get involved starter unit 3 video Ordering a meal" but not as good. Later I found 6 clips of Level A2+ (pic 2 below from unit 3 Making a goal diary). Another interesting clip is Unit 2: Living in 1927 (also with younger kids). Most actors are obviously teens f/m ~14-17 yo.

Episodes: unknown total length. Clips are very short ~1-3 minutes.

A1+ (British English ?):

Vocabulary

1. Top three places in the world

2. Me and My Family

3. Farmer's Market

4. Sloth calendar

5. Smarphone gadget crafts

6. Fairy tale house

7. This day in history

8. Nadiya's journey 

Real-world speaking

1. Meeting new people

2. Talking about photos

3. Ordering Food

4. Making plans

5. Asking for information

6. Talking about last weekend

7. Buying a ticket

Project:

1. Design a new country and make a poster to introduce your country

2. Make a circle map of important people in your life

3...