The Stone-Age Kid

 

Year published/aired: 12/1980

Year produced/filmed: 1980 ?

# of episodes: 4

Grade: 5-6

Genres: Fantasy

Sub-subject: History, nature, music

Broadcaster: RB 

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Media: VHSx2

Additional media: textbook, student text book 15 pages

Working material: Hans Bergmann

Publisher material : Schroedel

Novel available: 

Other literature: yes, see below

Plot (short): A boy and girl from Wales met a stone-age kid. Ohoo fits in on the farm. He was suspected stealing from a museum. Avoiding the police, he rode away on horse. At the end he watched his friends through a window, so he's not away.

Episodes: ~14 minutes each

1. Meet Ohoo

2. Locked Out!

3. So long at the fair

4. One Single - Two Returns

Submovie: Wales - Land of my Fathers

Didactic goals:

Differences England / Wales, culture, music, nature, druids, kelts, Asterix, costumes. Set in Snowdonia

Literature:

Exam work: Christiane Leusmann

Science report

Year published/aired: 1980 or 1981

Year produced/filmed: 1980

# of episodes: 12 ?

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Genres: documentary

Sub-subject: American English

Broadcaster: BR

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Plot (short): Documentaries in American English about Science and Technologies.

Episodes: ~15 minutes each

North of the Border

Year published/aired: 1980

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# of episodes: 4

Grade: 10th grade

Genres: Documentary

Sub-subject: Scotland

Broadcaster: BR

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Plot (short): A London reporter travels to Edinburgh and Aberdeen, writing for a newspaper about the problems of the Scots.

Episodes: ~20 minutes

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3. A Bonanza to Last?

4. Bonnie Scotland 

 

Update: BR instead of WDR, 10th grade  (source 1983 BR paper)

History Around You

Year published/aired: 1980 ?

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# of episodes: 4 ?

Grade: 9 ?

Genres: Geography, history

Sub-subject: economics, agriculture

Broadcaster:

Production company: Random Film Productions

Story:

Editor: Cyril Roth, Jack Baldwin

Director: Peter Mills

Producer: Stephanie Tennant

Media: VHSx4

Media distribution/sposor: Shell U.K. / Shell Film Services

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Plot (short): Documentaries about infrastructure, social history, geography and culture of Britain, from prehistorics, Romans, Medieval to present.

Episodes:  ~25 minutes each

The Road (1980) History of English roads

The Village (1980) settlement history, Burford, Milton Abbas, Bourneville, Long Milford

The Farmstead (1982) history of farm buildings

The Seaport (1982) (history of seaports, Southampton, Bristol, Liverpool

Info: There are lot's more documentaries by Shell and this staff, starting in the 1950s. But probably not belong to this series.

Focus on Britain

 

Year published/aired: 1980- ?

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# of episodes: 2*

Grade: 

Genres: Geography

Sub-subject: everydays situations

Broadcaster: BBC ?

Producer: John Houlton,

Production company: British Tourist Authority, BCG Productions, Roymark Ltd.

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Director: Nick Walker,

Media: VHS

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Material publisher: Schroedel, Macmillan ?

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Plot (short): Everydays situations

Episodes: ~50 minutes each

1. Part I (1980) Crossing the Channel, Breakfast in the Clarkes, Looking for a Place to stay, Shopping in the High Street, Camping and Cooking

2. Part II (1982) (party, accident, river tour to the tower, Portobello market, airport)

Info: Pic from a (different) 1992 episode. I think in Germany there were just 2 episodes of snippets made for usage at school.

I also found a working book from 1967.

There are also ELT (book) series called Focus on Britain Today and Focus on Great Britain. Not sure if all this is the same, sequels or completely different.

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