Oxford Solutions

Year published/aired: 2009

Year produced/filmed:

# of episodes: 10 units each

Grade: A2-C1

Genres: basics

Sub-subject:

Broadcaster: -

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Story: Tim Falla, Paul A. Davies,

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Media: DVD/(DVD-ROM)

Media distribution: Oxford University 

Additional media: books, Class audio CD, ebooks

Working material: Tim Falla, Paul A. Davies,

Material publisher: Oxford University

Novel available:

Other literature: 

Plot (short):  A secondary course for teens. First and third edition has 5 levels (including Advanced, C1), some other editions just/currently 4 levels ?. Pic taken from 2012 2nd edition Pre-Intermediate clip. Unit 1 1F. , then just called Solutions. I found video DVDs and multi-ROM DVDs (different editions) maybe all are DVD-ROMs. There's also a Classroom Presentation Tool (Whiteboard ?).

At least there are also Czech (Maturita Solutions), Polish (Gold) and Bulgarian editions.

I think rather few clips of interest (general clips, landscape, sports Soccer, Baseball). Interviews might be of interest. I haven't checked all clips.

Episodes: unknown length, C=Culture clips, F=Functional dialogues

2nd edition

Elementary

1C Buckingham Palace: Culture Clip

1F Making Friends: Functional dialogue

2C: Baseball

2F. Interviews about likes and dislikes, Vox pop

3C Famous Schools

3F: Giving Directions: Vox pop

4C. Bonfire night

4F: Making Agreements

5C Crazy about curry

5F: Ordering food and drink

6C: Queenstown NZ

6F Asking for information

7C: William Wilberforce

7F Talking about your weekend

8C: Angel of the North

8F Interview about holidays

9C A Saturday job

9F Interviews about jobs

10C: Irish Immigration to America

10F Buying a train ticket

Escape Games Anglais

 

Year published/aired: 2021 ?

Year produced/filmed:

# of episodes:  ~6 units each

Grade: A1-A2, 3e-5e 

Genres: adventure

Sub-subject: culture, history

Broadcaster: -

Production company:

Producer: 

Story: M. Canepa, Elise Launay, others 

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Director: 

Media: digital

Media distribution: Nathan

Additional media:  USB stick?

Working material: M Canepa 

Material publisher: Nathan

Novel available:

Other literature:

Plot (short): An English course for kids in form of a game by Editions Nathan (Paris, France). Grades 3e-5e.

Pic from Escape Game 1, game level 6. Clip: Mince Pies (official preview).

3 adventures (each year) and it comes with a box consisting of 6 posters A3 per game (for 6 groups of pupils), handouts with maps and clues and a teacher's guide. Videos maybe just digital/online.

I think there are few good videos, maybe most are animated or photos. The only confirmed one (2022 edition) is "Mince Pies" taken from Oxford University Press.

Multi subject course also for Maths, French, History, Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, German, Italian, ...

Episodes: unknown length

Edition 2022 orange background and spine

A1: Save Christmas! (London, free Santa from Scrooge) 3e?

1. Christmas Crackers (BBC Learning English)

2. Christmas Cards (DR)

3. Mrs Claus

4. How to Make a Christmas Tree (Crafting with Rachna)

5. A Christmas Carol

6. Mince Pies (pictured) Oxford University Press

A1+: Get out of School! (Parkhill Boarding school)  4e?

A2: Stuck in the Book of Giants (different giants in literature) 5e?

 

Edition Cycle 4 (2021) red

3e: Keep calm and beat the Blitz (set in 1939, help the Brown kids escape)

4e: Whodunnit on the Titanic (find a stolen violin from the ship's orchestra)

5e: Trapped in a Scottish castle! 

Update: Project

 

This is from Project (Forth Edition, I think from 2013) from Oxford University Press. I already had this under Project Video (1989, VHS). I hadn't found good screenshots then. Probably these are new clips. DVD video available (might be DVD ROM).

Pic 1 from part 4 Dylan's Plan (Drama) Level 3 unit 4. Pic 2 from Level 1 unit 4 part 2 Your favourite sport (Interview). In total 5 levels. I haven't checked them all. I only found clips of levels 1-3 on YouTube 17/17/25 clips. ~1-5 minutes each.

There are also animations and grown-ups and many (teen) girls shown. Materials still from Tom Hutchinson. Also available as Czech and Serbian editions, maybe more.

There's also "Project Explore" from Oxford University, maybe not related.

https://schulfernsehenenglischhistory.blogspot.com/2021/07/project-video.html

 

Thumbs Up!

 

Year published/aired: 2016 ?

Year produced/filmed:

# of episodes:  ~8 units each

Grade: A1-A2, 5e-6e 

Genres: basics, grammar

Sub-subject: culture

Broadcaster: -

Production company:

Producer: 

Story: Vanessa Roth, 

Editor: 

Director: 

Media: DVD, DVD-ROM, digital

Media distribution: Nathan

Additional media: books, DVD-ROM, MP3, MP4

Working material: C. Garcia 

Material publisher: Nathan

Novel available:

Other literature:

Plot (short): An English course for young teens by Edition Nathan (Paris, France). Grades 5e-6e. The oldest edition I found is from 2017. But series is I think from 2016. There's a student's set with 1 DVD (maybe DVD ROM) and 2 audio CDs.

Pic from 5e unit 1 3. Get ready to talk what you like doing (official preview sample Site compagnon). There are very few previews of videos (and books).

Episodes: unknown DVD length

5e

Unit 1. 

1. 13 year old Rapper From the Bronx

2. Jacksgap's weird skills

3: How to speak about yourself (Get ready to talk what you like doing)

4. Get vlogging 

Unit 2

Pledge of Allegiance Charles Middle School

2. In spring Chicago Youth, Science Club

...

Unit 3 (Yellowstone park) 

6e

Unit 1 

Remember - Meeting my rommate

Living Together - Explore - Be a Friend!

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

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Director: 

Media: DVD

Media distribution: Belin Education

Additional media: books, audio CDs 

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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