Eslite Bookstores - Humanity, art, creativity and life.

Hey team!

Great news this week. Interactile is extremely proud to be working alongside Eslite Bookstores. As of this week, our full range of products will be available in nine of their stores nationwide. The list of stores where you can find our stuff is below.

Taipei Shin Yi 台北信義
Dun Hua 台北敦化
Tai Da 台北台大
Hsinchu SOGO 新竹 SOGO
Tainan Store 台南總店
Kaohshiung Shin Shi Chi 高雄新世紀
Kaohshiung Dream Mall 高雄夢時代
Taichung Yuen Daol 台中圓道
Chong Li Da Chiang 中壢大江



Eslite is the most well-known bookstore chain in Taiwan. They have been in operation since 1989 and now have 48 stores nationwide. And that includes Dun Hua which is now a 24 hour bookstore. Xinyi Store, their flagship store, now has 8000 square meters of floor space! That's the largest bookstore in Taiwan. Here's their website below:

http://www.eslite.com/

First Idioms - Animals

We have another free worksheet available for you too. We haven't done many worksheets to accompany First Idioms so today we begin to rectify that. This worksheet can be used after you finish teaching the intermediate level idioms. The theme is animals and this is a fun way to review all the animal related idioms taught in the beginner and advanced levels. It can also be used as a test. Here's the link below:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20558331/First-Idioms-Animals

Page 101

Interactile Learning is very proud to announce that our fine products are now available in the world's tallest building! This one below in fact:



Interactile's range of products are now available at Page One bookstore within the Taipei 101 complex. Check out their website below for details of how to get there. Or just start walking towards that really tall building in Taipei!

http://www.pageonegroup.com/index.html

First Questions - Celebrity Interview

Good Evening Teachers!

I hope this update finds you all well. For those of you in Hualien, how about this rain eh? I hope you didn't get caught riding a scooter home in it like I did.

The Interactile team want to thank you guys for your support of Speak Right Read Right. It has proven very popular and the feedback we have been getting from teachers has been great. So for that, thank you!

Below you will find a link to a new activity to accompany First Questions. It is a fun way to transfer the speaking skills your students have learned to writing skills. It will require, for most people, the use of the internet so, it is something that could be begun in class and then sent home to be finished there.

We'd also like to let you know, that Interactile Learning will have a booth at the English Teachers Associaion (ETA) book fair on November 13, 14, and 15. If any of you will be in Taipei for that weekend, be sure to pop by and check out the book fair. And us, we'll be at booth number C18, if you wanna come by for a cuppa.

Bye for now!

www.scribd.com/doc/19805626/Interview-a-CelebrityTeachers-Notes

Speak Right Read Right in action!

These shots are from our favorite little school in Hualien, The Hill English School. These beginner students have been using Speak Right Read Right for just on a week now and are getting used to the short 'a' sound. The vowel wheels have been great for this. The kids love hearing a sound and racing to try to find that sound within their own personal wheel. It's a very tactile approach to learning the vowel sounds.





Today we moved on to the 'af' sound on card two with some promising successes in speaking and reading. This class tackles phonics just once a week so we will spread Kit One out over two semesters. We'll keep you posted as to their progress!

Street Smarts

After extensive research we have found the best book to accompany our Street Smarts program!



The Diary of a Wimpy Kid is full of lots of great Street Smarts style slang and is a hilarious read.



This book coupled with Street Smarts would make a great slang program for any intermediate class.

You can pick up a copy today from our good friends at Caves bookstores.

www.cavesbooks.com.tw

The Spelling Hive

Hi guys,

Just a quick note with a teaser for the latest from Interactile. The first of our new spelling workbooks should be available in late October. Here is a shot from the cover of book one. Altogether we will have six workbooks.

We found a lot of spelling systems available but are lot are not review intensive for our liking. If words aren't used often, they will be forgotton. So, in The Spelling HIve, memorized words are regularly re-tested and re-practiced to keep them fresh and ready to use in sentences and compositions.

Thanks, as always, for all your support!

Pierre and Leighton