The SiR Global range of modern languages is a highly visual, interactive, multimedia approach to the study of foreign languages in school and at home. It allows students to speak, listen to and complete exercises in the language at an appropriate level, thus encouraging differentiation and independent learning.
It provides excellent support in school for students to GCSE level and beyond. It is also an ideal library resource for travel and leisure.
What does it do?
Makes learning classroom languages motivating, interesting and fun
Provides many different learning exercises and experiences on screen
Enables individual students to interact with a language using listening, reading and speech
Boosts the understanding of vocabulary, grammar and comprehension in a foreign language
Gives each student their own personal learning environment
Keeps and prints a personal language dictionary
What are its components?
Skills approach:
Vocabulary, Verbs, Sentences, Rules of Grammar
Themes approach:
Number and Dates, Food and Eating, Travel, Weather and Time, Entertainment, People, Shopping and Clothes, At Home, Money, In Business
What unique features does it have?
The choice of learning using either a skill or theme-based approach
The ability for students to learn and then apply key language patterns in new situations by making short responses.
The provision of a differentiated curriculum with individual students each working at their appropriate learning level.
The automatic availability of help relating to vocabulary usage and correct verb tenses.
The choice of working in the target language or in English.
The choice of working in original language or English