Update: Project Explore

 

2 more pics, this time from Level 2 of Project Explore. Unit/clip title: Neighbors.

I'm not sure, but I think different actors. There's again a red haired boy (pic 2 on right), I think called Jan.

In the starter Level, there's another dark haired chubby boy called Joel (main post on left). One girl is called Leila. Here's another handsome boy.

In Level 1 there are teen actors called Keira, Pablo, Viki and Ravi.

Main entry (with pic from Starter Level)

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2023/06/project-explore.html

Ten points

 

Full title: Ten points - Life and culture in the English-speaking World

Year published/aired: 1990 ?

Year produced/filmed: 1990 ?

# of episodes: ?

Grade: ?

Genres:  Travel

Sub-subject: culture

Broadcaster: SVT

Production company:

Producer: Eskil Garpebring

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Plot (short):  Life and culture in the English-speaking World. At least aired from 1990-1994. Swedish channel SVT - UR (utbildningsradion). The logo is a dart board. Pictured is a modern logo from 1993. The original logo has a real dart board. Few info on the web. Hosts Professor David Crystal, Peter A Miller. Maybe also others. 

Producer and reporter: Eskil Garpebring.

Subtitled in Swedish.

Episodes: 30 minutes each

1. English, where next? (1990)

-The press in Britain and the USA (1994)

1993 episode about California

Project Explore

Year published/aired: 2018 ?

Year produced/filmed: 2018 ?

# of episodes: ? ~6 units/level ?

Grade: A1-B1

Genres:  basics, everyday's situations

Sub-subject:

Broadcaster: -

Production company:

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Story: Paul Shipton,

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Media: DVD-ROM, digital packs

Media distribution: Oxford University 

Additional media: books, Class Audio CD, ebook, board game

Working material: Paul Shipton,

Material publisher: Oxford University

Novel available:

Other literature: 

Plot (short):  A five-level course for teenagers. Pic from the Starter level (introduction). Boy on left is probably Joel, on right Jan. Some clips (at least levels 0 /starter and 1) are animations. Next to digital resources and class Audio CDs, there are also DVD-ROMs (at least) in the Teacher Packs.

At least also used in Spain.

2 more pics of Level 2 with another handsome boy.

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2023/06/update-project-explore.html

Episodes: unknown length , most clips are very short ~2 minutes each

Starter

1. Culture: Do You speak English?

2 Too Late

2. Culture: Interesting collections 

3. Culture: Special days at school

4. Culture: Weekend fun

5. Culture: Famous bridges

...

Level 1

5 A strange Holiday

Level 2

Neighbors (see update)

Level 3

 1. Culture: Family Celebrations

2. Culture: Teenage tech habits 

3. Culture: Four sports that have been invented in Britain

4. Culture Sherlock Holmes

5. Culture: The International Space Station

6. Culture: Famous film directors

Hello

Level 4

1 Culture: Charles Darwin

2 The Museum of the strange 

2 Culture: The smart tourist's guide to New York

4 Baseball

5 Dublin

...

 

Playtime - ep 22 (Frog Went a-Courting)

 

Ep 22 At the Cinema has been aired last Saturday. In there was an animated movie called "The Frog" with a very catching tune. I previously couldn't find the title on either Wikipedia and Google. The plot is about a frog who wants to marry a mouse. There's also uncle Rat and a narrator, a singing rabbit as bard with a lute.

I was sure that this must be a very old, famous British folk song / ballad / bard song. I briefly searched on Wikipedia for bard music and searched on Google for a line of the lyrics (The frog would like to marry me, he offer). And I searched on Google for a song with aha at the end. No results on Google.

With some terms of the plot (bridal show, frog, mouse) I first found a video of a lady singing from the 1955 book. 

The song is a 1600s song (1549) with many versions. The book also has the musical notes. And it's not aha at the end but h'm - h'm.

Series Playtime has except the host no live-action but animation and puppetry. But I think it's quite good for learning English (aimed at young kids).

Main entry of the series

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2021/07/playtime.html

Update: Speak for Yourself

 

I found a brief footage clip of this rare, very early 1974 series inside "Schulfernsehen und Unterrichtspraxis" (WDR 1976) in episode 4. Very good image quality. Not sure about the episode # of that series. Maybe ep. 1?. The teens are quite old, maybe at their early 20s. But there also should be some kids in other episodes.

In fact the very first German series with the use of video cassettes (VCR) at schools. Story by Terry Moston. Series first aired on Radio Bremen (RB).

Main entry, previously no pics at all

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2021/08/speak-for-yourself.html

Fast Track English (Telekolleg II) - episode 3

 

Episode 3 "A Family Home" has recently been aired. There are many scenes of 2 boys, I think brothers. Also pictured: Meter Man.

I still haven't seen all episodes. But I don't assume better episodes.

Main entry

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2022/12/fast-track-english-telekolleg-ii.html

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2021/08/telekolleg.html