Schulfernsehen Englisch History: Camden Town

Monday, September 5, 2022

Camden Town

Year published/aired: 2005 (1. ed)

Year produced/filmed:

# of episodes: ~6 units each

Grade: 5-11

Genres: basics, grammar

Sub-subject: culture

Broadcaster: -

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Media: DVD/online resources

Media distribution: Westermann (Diesterweg)

Additional media: books, audio CDs, DVD-ROMs, DVD, CD-ROMs

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Material publisher: Westermann

Novel available:

Other literature:

Plot (short): A course for grades 5-11). Camden Town 1-7 and Oberstufe (Bavaria). Similar content, style and media like other German publishers (Cornelsen). Student's workbooks have DVDs. All other DVD sets are for teachers. There is also Camden Town Advanced, 3 DVDs for teachers UK/USA) and a similar series called Camden Market (also for grades 3-4 as Camden Market Junior). And in 2024 Camden Road. Pic showing Rebecca from Camden Town 2 (Unit 2, clip: Viewing Festivals, taken from the official book preview). More than half of the clips are simple animations (early grades).

Edition 2005 has 3 rows of grey (and colored) cirles on top of the cover, Edition 2012/2013 has a curved green line in the middle of the cover, one half is blue and a simple skyline above the title. The 2020 edition has a photo of a face on one corner and a photo of a bulding at the opposite corner. There might be even earlier editions but probably not with DVDs.

And Audio CD with DVD for teachers. New edition 3 has DVD for teachers. Older editions had a 3 disc set (Audio disc, DVD-ROM, Video DVD).

There are CD-ROMs Multimedia Language Trainer (year 2000?, unknown if have videos, probably not, later called Multimedia Sprachtrainer). Audio CDs have kids and grown ups. Interactive Whiteboard DVD-ROMs don't have videos (but audio and pics).

There are related series like Notting Hill Gate. And Take. Running time of that is ~24 minutes each grade.. More info soon.

Some samples can be watched on the official site. At least titles of contents can be watched on the BiBox site. Previews for units 1-3 but needs logged-in as teacher for almost all clips. There are also (watermarked) previews of books showing some tiny screen caps of clips.

Some characters: Sam, Alex, Georgia (Camden Town 1), Leanne, Rebecca, Daniel (Camden Town 2). Jessica, Pranav, Joshua (Camden Town 3).

Episodes: ~ 61 minutes videos total for teacher DVD 5 (each grade) but also has animated clips (not listed here). Camden Town 2 (2013) has 22 minutes videos (at least on one disc, also lots more audio contents). Not sure about CD-ROM contents. Clips of DVDs (might differ from edition):

Camden Town 1

2. Haverstock School

4. Jobs around the house

8. At Camden Market (Sam and Alex looking for a birthday present for Georgia, movie poster)

9. Pets

Camden Town 2

2. Water Festival

7. Festivals (pictured)

8. Sightseeing in London

12. School rules

14. Karate with Jessica

Camden Town 3.