The Hill English School

These photos come from The Hill English School in Hualien. This intermediate level class of elementary school students uses First Idioms as part of their curriculum. The kids are expected to learn ten idioms a week, with a test on Fridays. They learn a few a day in their daily class.

The class is also running a semester look idiom usage competition. The kids are awarded a point every time they manage to use an idiom from First Idioms in context. That could be while speaking, in their composition work, sentence work, or anywhere else they teacher sees the students using them.

Current Product List

Interactile Learning currently has two products available in stores. Our first product is First Questions - The kit for elementary conversational fluency. First Idioms was released in December of 2008. It's a great system for learning everyday, useful idioms. March 2009 will see the much anticipated release of Street Smarts - The English Slang kit for dudes, babes, homeboys and foxes (not suitable for dorks, losers, princesses or yuppies.




























Keep logging on to the Interactile Learning blog to find out what other exciting products are onthe horizon. This year will also see the release of:
The Interactile Sight Word Train
Interactile's Grammar School Boards
The Spelling Master
Speedy Phonics
Interactile Class Labels
and
Interactile's Flashcard System

Tzu Chi Junior High School

Here are some pictures of two classes from Tzu Chi Junior High School in Taiwan. The students here use First Questions in their English conversation class which they attend once a week. Each student has their own set, which allows lots of games and activities.


In each class the students learn ten questions and answers. So the class starts with a little bit of rote learning (not too much) until the students are familiar with the intonation and pronunciation of each question and answer. Then they split off into closed pairs to practice with a classmate, which allows the teacher to wonder around and listen and correct any problems.


Once everybody is familiar with the ten questions of the day and how to answer them, it becomes a little more challenging. In this class, with the aid of a stopwatch, the teacher challenged the students to see who could answer the ten questions, asked by the teacher, in the shortest time. The fastest today was 17 seconds!


Then they were separated into two teams, girls and boys, and took turns about reading the lips of the teacher, who mouthed the questions. The students then had to race to the blackboard to write an appropriate answer. Points, of course, were taken away for spelling mistakes and missing words! The girls, not entirely unsurprisingly, won today.