Challenges

Full title: Challenges: A Multi-media project for learners of English

Year published/aired: 1976

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# of episodes: 6

Grade: 8-

Genres: Everydays situations

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Production company: Longman, BBC, FWU

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Media: VHSx2 44 minutes

Additional media: Material for Students, Teachers, audio tapes, slides

Working material: Terry Moston, Brian Abbs

Material publisher: Langenscheidt-Longman (Germany)

Novel available: 

Other literature: yes

Plot (short): Teens with different everydays situations like finding a job, party, love, fear, pop music

Episodes: ~20 minutes each (?)

1. Somewhere to live (Charlotte searching a home, different types of houses)

2. Somewhere to love (idols, lonely at high age, big family)

3. Somewhere to work (work, unemployment, child labor, gender differences)

4. Somewhere to go (Holidays and future)

5. Somewhere to say (communication and mass media)

6. Somewhere to do (leisure time, social worker at a Soccer club, music, gardening)

Literature:

Exam work: Herzog/Stock/Uppenkamp (1981) ep 5

Kirsten Schaarschmidt (1981)

Tatjana Schikorski (2001)

Books:

There's a 2006 book series by Pearson/Longman. Might be related or a seqel.

Info:

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