CROSSROADS CAFE

Air Date: Sunday mornings 4/6/02 - 4/28/02, 5:00/4:00 a.m. MT/PT
Subject: Foreign Language/ESL
Length: 26 episodes @ 30 minutes
School Record Rights: Fair Use

Crossroads Café is a captivating episodic series which, combined with closely correlated print materials, offers a complete program designed to teach English to speakers of other languages. The series engagingly depicts the lives of six characters involved with a small neighborhood restaurant. Their backgrounds, challenges and struggles are typical of many ESL/ESOL learners. Two video sidebars appear in each episode: Culture Clips, a documentary-style segment which focuses on cultural issues portrayed in the story; and Word Play, a colorful animated segment which demonstrates the appropriate language to use when communicating specific types of information. As students enjoy every new chapter in the lives of Crossroads Café characters and use the corresponding materials, the lessons provide an integrated experience of listening, reading and writing. The materials are structured with different levels of challenge so that beginning-low through intermediate-high learners can all use the program. Crossroads Café stresses language communication as opposed to rote repetition of vocabulary; learners must use context to enhance vocabulary skills and use higher order thinking skills to find layers of meaning.

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ENGLISH WORKS!

Air Date: Not Currently Scheduled
Subject: ESL/Literacy
Grades: Adult
Length: 10 episodes @ 20 minutes
Distributors: TBC
School Record Rights: Fair Use

This award-winning series helps limited English speakers understand and develop skills for communicating with their customers, co-workers, and supervisors. Each lesson takes place in one of five workplace sites: hotels and motels, hospitals, convenience stores, retirement homes, and maintenance sites. The programs feature five main characters who are representative of the cultural and ethnic diversity in the American workforce. Program topics include how to respond to instructions, asking for clarification, making small talk, reading forms, dealing with mistakes, and safety on the job.

101 Small Talk
102 Responding to Instructions
103 Asking for Clarification
104 Asking for Elaboration of a Request
105 Reading Job Announcements
106 Reading Forms
107 Dealing with Mistakes
108 Asking to Change your Work Schedule
109 Safety on the Job
110 Interviewing for a Better Job

FIRST STEPS EN ESPANOL

Air Date: Not Currently Scheduled
Subject: Foreign Language/ESL
Grades: K-3
Length: 10 episodes @ 15 minutes
Distributors: NETA

This series is designed to assist schools and teachers by providing students with instruction in a second language during the primary grades. This introductory course for young students makes learning Spanish fun. In keeping with the Foreign Language in Elementary School guidelines, only Spanish is spoken to the children.

1 Hola
2 Welcome to My Home
3 Shopping at the Grocery Store
4 Going to the Doctor
5 Shopping at a Department Store
6 Visiting a Farm
7 Visiting a School
8 Walking Through a Community
9 Celebrating Holidays
10 A Birthday Picnic

FIRST STEPS EN FRANCAIS

Air Date: Not Currently Scheduled
Subject: Foreign Language/ESL
Grades: K-3
Length: 10 episodes @ 15 minutes
Distributors: NETA

First Steps en Français was designed to assist schools and teachers by providing students with instruction in a second language during the primary grades. This ten-lesson introductory course for young students makes learning French fun, as a group of children learn French from their new neighbor who has just moved from France. In keeping with the Foreign Language in Elementary School guidelines, this new neighbor speaks only French to the children as he teaches them.

1 Bonjour
2 Welcome to My Home
3 Shopping at the Grocery Store
4 Going to the Doctor
5 Shopping at a Department Store
6 Visiting a Farm
7 Visiting a School
8 Walking Through the Community
9 Celebrating Holidays
10 A Picnic in the Park

FRANCE FEELINGS

Air Date: Not Currently Scheduled
Subject: Social Studies/Travel/Current Events/Foreign Language
Grades: 9-12-Adults
Length: 12 episodes @ 30 minutes
Distributors: French Cultural Service/CUNY-TV
Website: http://www.frenchculture.org

FRANCE FEELINGS is a series on current events, travel, cuisine and contemporary life in France. The 30-minute show has segments in English with American hosts as well as in French with English subtitles. An entertaining and informative look at different aspects of life in France, FRANCE FEELINGS offers a brief overview of topical politics, trends in fashion and entertainment, as well as movie and music reviews.

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LYRIC LANGUAGE

Airdates: See Below
Subject: Foreign Language/ESL
Grades: K-6
Length: 8 episodes @ 20 minutes
Distributors: Penton

One of the most successful video language programs ever introduced, LYRIC LANGUAGE teaches foreign languages to children through music and delightful bilingual lyrics. Available in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Japanese. Takes the viewer on a series of real-life adventures while effortlessly teaching the foreign language. Kids will sing along with original music while they take a trip to the zoo, the beach, the forest, or even a hot air balloon ride? It’s an innovative method that appeals to all ages.

NEXT STEPS EN ESPANOL

Air Date: Not Currently Scheduled
Subject: Foreign Language/ESL
Grades: 2-5
Length: 10 episodes @ 15 minutes
Distributors: NETA

The Next Step series is a continuation of the First Step series, and are designed to assist schools by providing students with instruction in a second language during the primary grades. The lessons make learning a foreign language fun as a group of children are exposed to the language while they visit their new neighbor who has just moved from the native country into their neighborhood.

1 Meeting Again
2 Visiting My House
3 Buying Groceries
4 Growing Up Healthy
5 Choosing a Present
6 Playing with Animals
7 Learning at My School
8 Finding Places in My Town
9 Looking at Zoo Animals
10 Celebrating with Friends

NEXT STEPS EN FRANCAIS

Air Dates: Not Currently Scheduled
Subject: Foreign Language/ESL
Grades: 2-5
Length: 10 episodes @ 15 minutes
Distributors: NETA

The Next Step series is a continuation of the First Step series, and are designed to assist schools by providing students with instruction in a second language during the primary grades. The lessons make learning a foreign language fun as a group of children are exposed to the language while they visit their new neighbor who has just moved from the native country into their neighborhood.

1 Meeting Again
2 Visiting My House
3 Buying Groceries
4 Growing Up Healthy
5 Choosing a Present
6 Playing with Animals
7 Learning at My School
8 Finding Places in My Town
9 Looking at Zoo Animals
10 Celebrating with Friends

SPANISH TV MAGAZINE

Air Date: Not currently scheduled. Broadcast Rights end 12/31/01.
Subject: Foreign Language
Grades: HS, Adult
Length: 2, 60 minute episodes
Distributors: PMN

Spanish TV Magazine uses a magazine-style format to highlight events and activities in Spain and the Spanish-speaking world. Entirely in Spanish, the series cover many of the topics familiar to the public television, including art, music, cooking, children's programming and much more. The short program segments are edited from the archives of Radiotelevision Espanola, the national broadcasting company in Spain.