This exciting new series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work. The readers are graded at six levels, suitable for students from age 8 and older. They can support Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).
Read and discover all about the materials that people use to make products ... How is glass made? What are microchips?
Reach into Backpack and discover a course packed full of exciting activities and bursting with opportunities to learn and use English! Backpack focuses on getting young learners to enjoy communicating in English and takes a highly integrated approach to developing grammar, vocabulary and all four language skills.
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In The Story of English in 100 Words, an entertaining history of the world’s most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word—‘roe’—was written down on the femur of a roe deer in the fifth century.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy: Oceanography
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Oceanography teaches students about the importance of ocean currents in this entertaining discussion, which mixes a lot of laughter in with the science. In this program, Nye reveals how volcanoes are the source of the ocean's water, and are also the reason why the seas are salty. He talks about the ways in which global climate is affected by ocean currents