Talking Big Books on CD-ROM

Happy Birthday!
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This story's plot has all the ups-and-downs of a real children's birthday party. Its language is simple - it will link well with any work on celebrations, with very useful vocabulary - especially expressing feelings and reminding children of colours and numbers...

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Happy Birthday - French-English story
Your children will enjoy reading the book with French and English parallel texts -also in Spanish

"Tu as perdu ton ballon? Ne pleure pas! Ce n'est pas grave!"

Story summary:
Michael's party is in full swing when - oops, away fly all the colourful balloons!
Is the party spoilt or will Mum come to the rescue?

Fun with the text...

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Count along with the story...
...spot nouns, verbs and adjectives...
..look for words that include a particular phonemes [in this case, [oi]...

After enjoying the story, children can use the other activities to play with the texts, and develop their understanding of the French and how it works - leading perhaps to writing their own story, using sentences from the story as writing frames...

Some of the varied activities on the CD-ROM
As well as the story - beautifully told in French by a native speaker - you'll find...

see and hear the story at whatever pace you choose - with options to repeat, see or hide the text, and see English if you want.
a simple quiz to help you understand particular words and phrases in French...
..play "Simon Says..." - you hear a word and have have a few seconds to pick the right picture..
..as the picture reveals, how quickly can you guess the word in French? ..
...as you hear a sentence, identify whether a highlighted letter in the text is silent...
...and the children can even learn how to swear in French (a bit!)...

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