Teaching French and/or Spanish?

For all Clicker5 users, Crick Software have announced the launch of their 3-CD resource for teaching Spanish. This adds to their much aclaimed Clicker French set of CDs and other 'Powered by Clicker5' resources.

Both sets are a carefully structured series to teach listening, speaking, reading and writing in either Spanish or French and use high quality, professionally recorded speech from native Spanish and French speakers. Special Spanish and French speech engines are also used so that pupils' own writing is read back to them with authentic sounding Spanish and French voices.

In both sets, CD1 introduces pupils to everyday vocabulary with lots of listening and speaking activities. The pupils are also able to record, re-record and listen to their own attempts at the language. CD2 builds on the first, offering a further range of activities, with more complex sentence structure in a range of relevant topics e.g. holidays, sport, weather and much more.
The third CD contains three well known traditional stories and introduces new vocabulary not met before. The pupils become language detectives as they decipher the onscreen books whilst the accompanying activities extend and consolidate the new vocabulary and structures.

You can also create your own activities with special templates automatically set to speak in Spanish or French.

Each CD can be bought separately from Crick Software for £50 (single user) or £100 (site licence) or the 3-CD Set can be bought for £250 (site licence).
Contact IBSschools (01905 765175) for a discount on these prices.

Latest news from Crick Software (creators of Clicker5)

We have just received this news bulletin from Crick Software detailing their new offerings:

"Clicker SuperDrive
One of our top sellers at BETT, the Clicker SuperDrive delivers over £5000 worth of software for just £1200. It includes all the currently available Powered by Clicker resources on a highly desirable 320Gb USB Hard Drive. Having all this content would normally involve installing 64 CDs, but with the SuperDrive, you're up and running in minutes, and it includes a site license for the whole school!

ClozePro Version 2
With schools looking for good assessment tools, this is going to be another very successful product for 2010. ClozePro enables teachers to produce powerful assessment activities in minutes, with the results automatically recorded anywhere you like on the computer or network.

Clicker Tales
Three traditional tales beautifully illustrated and with a new range of Clicker 5 activities, specially designed for speaking and listening. Great for Early Years and very low cost too!

Clicker MFL: French
Sorry we haven't had time to put it on the website yet, but I think this is the best Powered by Clicker resource we've ever done. There's extensive use of Clicker's sound recording, so you can practise your pronunciation, and it really does work - after 4 days of showing it at BETT, all the staff here are now fluent (well, almost)!"

For further details see Crick's website at www.cricsoft.com or come to the Finstall Centre and try out some of the titles from the software library. Email hos@worcestershire.gov.uk to arrange an appointment.