extr@ Interactive DVDs
French, German, Spanish
Subtitles
Age 14–19 / Key Stage 4 and GCSE
French DVD $845.00 NH443282 German DVD $845.00 NH443304 Spanish DVD $845.00 NH443290
Curriculum Connections
• Helps develop oracy skills in the target language
• Drama skills
Winner 2007
• Reading and writing
Education
Resource
Award
In extr@, four attractive 19–22 year olds are thrown together
to play out their romances, life crises and contrasting interests
Series Three
for Secondary
in a familiar sitcom setting. A fundamental complication in
ICT
their relationship is that one of the four is an outsider, Sam,
9. Jobs for the Boys
with only a very basic grasp of the featured language. Sam’s
Job preparation, work (and problems), work routine
efforts to get to grips with the language provide the central
10. Annie Protests
Campaigning issues, animal rights, work situations, interviews
dynamic for the series’ language learning content.
11. Holiday Time
Holidays: plans, preparations and travel, ordering drinks and snacks in a
What makes extr@ different is that the scripts have been
café, interpreting
carefully written so that the language is simple and accessible
12. Football Crazy
at all levels. Covering all the main programmes of study, the
Football, using the phone, interpreting
13. A Wedding in the Air
scripts combine wit, strong character identification and a
Leisure, celebrations, relationships including problems, character
good dose of physical humour. The style and storylines make descriptions, interviews
instant connections with the target age group of 14–19.
13 x 25-minute programmes each
Series One
1. The Arrival of Sam
Each DVD
Meeting people, friends and family, daily routine, house and home
contains three
2. Sam Goes Shopping
series
Health, fashion, shopping, clothes, appearance
3. Sam Goes Dating 325 minutes of
Exercise and lifestyles, relationships, meeting people, making a good
programming
impression
4. Sam Finds a Job
Jobseekers, eating out, talking about cooking
Key features of the DVDs
Series Two ‘Karaoke’ • Optional subtitles giving you the opportunity to alternate between English
option – enables
and the foreign language; great for improving aural and writing skills
5. A Star is Born
students to mute,
• Discussion points, key vocabulary and a multiple-choice quiz at the end of
Adverts, recipes, weather, relationships
record and play back
every episode, with native speaker voiceover to model pronunciation
6. Sacha Wins the Lottery
their ‘voice-over’
• Contains complete footage from all three series
Numbers, future plans, lost property,
for selected
• Transcripts embedded as print-quality PDF and editable Word documents
saying what happened
7. The Twin
characters
• Dynamic link to the free extr@ website from the DVD: www.
channel4learning.com/extra
Health and fitness, looking back to the past,
relationships Free programme notes:
8. The Landlady’s Cousin www.channel4learning.com/programmenotes
Assembling shelves, food and drink, dealing with the unpredictable,
leisure
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