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French Junior Adventure Course

French Junior Adventure Course

Children enjoy learning with Power-Glide! The unique program teaches children languages naturally -- they learn concepts and vocabulary without even realizing it!


 

German Ultimate Year 2 Adventure Course

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Spanish Children's Adventure Course

Spanish Children's Adventure Course

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Spanish Middle School Year 1 | Fully Online & Interactive

Spanish Middle School Year 1 | Fully Online & Interactive

Perfect for: Grades 6-9 / Ages 10-13 Course includes: 1 complete year / 180 day lesson calendar | Interactive games | Listen & record lessons | Culture videos | Online testing and assesment | Automated grade book | Automated student tracking | Advisor and student views Course Overview A multi-media, game-based approach makes this introductory Spanish course different from traditional approaches to language learning. Advanced teaching techniques are used to turn compelling adventures and activities into rigorous lessons in grammar and vocabulary. This course provides a solid foundation for reading, speaking, writing, and understanding Spanish and cultivates a passion for the language through exposure to culture and dynamic experiences of real people and real places. What You Will Learn Phrases Greetings, introductions, relationships, cause and effect, how to express likes and dislikes and how to ask questions. Vocabulary Adjectives, animals, body parts, family words, colors, food, numbers 1-900 and household vocabulary. Grammar Original sentence construction, verb infinitives and base forms, irregular verbs, Latin derived cognates, concrete objects and associated verbs, adjective agreement and demonstrative pronouns. Culture Students will gain an understanding of Spanish speaking cultures including economy, traditions, history and political structure.


High School Spanish Year 1 | Fully Online & Interactive

High School Spanish Year 1 | Fully Online & Interactive

Perfect for: Grades 8-12+ / Ages 12-18+ Course includes: 1 complete year / 180 day lesson calendar | Interactive games | Listen & record lessons | Culture videos | Online testing and assesment | Automated grade book | Automated student tracking | Advisor and student views Course Overview Students with a beginning foundation in Spanish will see their skills soar through compelling lessons that give them access to content so interesting that they forget that they are learning Spanish. This unique learning methodology, which relies heavily on games and stories, works effectively to take students from a tentative understanding of Spanish basics to a greater level of sophistication. This course concentrates on students’ ability to articulate more and more complex thoughts and to understand authentic native language from a variety of enticing sources. What You Will Learn Students will increase reading and listening comprehension, and vocabulary usage as they learn sentence patterns, advanced phrases, identify objects from descriptions, translate to and from Spanish, create stories, and understand directions. Conversation skills through expanded vocabulary such as geography, math, plants, animals, and directions. Vocabulary is also increased through poems, stories, and ditties. Grammar includes object pronouns with finite and infinite verbs, past and present tense verbs, action verbs, imperfect tense, participle verb endings, indicative and subjunctive verb forms, and dependant verb clauses. This course also emphasizes intense listening comprehension challenges that inspire students to understand complex thoughts and subjects. The increased language skills acquired in this course make higher level cultural and social content open to students who are exposed to some of the literary and social treasures of Spanish-speaking countries.


French High School Year 1 | Fully Online & Interactive

French High School Year 1 | Fully Online & Interactive

Perfect for: Grades 8-12+ / Ages 12-18+ Course includes: 1 complete year / 180 day lesson calendar | Interactive games | Listen & record lessons | Culture videos | Online testing and assesment | Automated grade book | Automated student tracking | Advisor and student views Course Overview A multi-media, game-based approach makes this introductory French course different from traditional approaches to language learning. Advanced teaching techniques are used to turn compelling adventures and activities into rigorous lessons in grammar and vocabulary. This course provides a solid foundation for reading, speaking, writing, and understanding French and cultivates a passion for the language through exposure to culture and dynamic experiences of real people and real places. This course also features adaptive learning technology that lets students select the learning style that’s right for them. What You Will Learn Phrases Greetings, introductions, relationships, cause and effect, how to express likes and dislikes and how to ask questions. Vocabulary Adjectives, animals, body parts, family words, colors, shapes, food, numbers 1-900 and household vocabulary. Grammar Noun/adjective agreement with gender, direct and indirect articles, transitive and intransitive verbs, pronouns, verb infinitives and base forms and aspects of tensing. Culture Students will gain an understanding of French speaking cultures including economy, traditions, history and political structure.


French High School Year 2 | Fully Online & Interactive

French High School Year 2 | Fully Online & Interactive

French High School Year 1 Foreign Language, Home School, Learn French Perfect for: Grades 8-12+ / Ages 12-18+ Course includes: 1 complete year / 180 day lesson calendar | Interactive games | Listen & record lessons | Culture videos | Online testing and assesment | Automated grade book | Automated student tracking | Advisor and student views Course Overview Students with a beginning foundation in French will see their skills soar through compelling lessons that give them access to content so interesting that they forget that they are learning French. This unique learning methodology, which relies heavily on games and stories, works effectively to take students from a tentative understanding of French basics to a greater level of sophistication. This course concentrates on students’ ability to articulate more and more complex thoughts and to understand authentic native language from a variety of enticing sources. What You Will Learn Phrases Greetings, introductions, relationships, cause and effect, how to express likes and dislikes and how to ask questions. Vocabulary Adjectives, animals, body parts, family words, colors, shapes, food, numbers 1-900 and household vocabulary. Grammar Noun/adjective agreement with gender, direct and indirect articles, transitive and intransitive verbs, pronouns, verb infinitives and base forms and aspects of tensing. Culture Students will gain an understanding of French speaking cultures including economy, traditions, history and political structure.


French Middle School Year 1 | Fully Online & Interactive

French Middle School Year 1 | Fully Online & Interactive

Course Overview A multi-media, game-based approach makes this introductory French course different from traditional approaches to language learning. Advanced teaching techniques are used to turn compelling adventures and activities into rigorous lessons in grammar and vocabulary. This course provides a solid foundation for reading, speaking, writing, and understanding French and cultivates a passion for the language through exposure to culture and dynamic experiences of real people and real places. What You Will Learn Phrases Greetings, introductions, relationships, cause and effect, how to express likes and dislikes and how to ask questions. Vocabulary Adjectives, animals, body parts, family words, colors, food, numbers 1-900 and household vocabulary. Grammar Original sentence construction, verb infinitives and base forms, irregular verbs, Latin derived cognates, concrete objects and associated verbs, adjective agreement and demonstrative pronouns. Culture Students will gain an understanding of French speaking cultures including economy, traditions, history and political structure.


High School German Year 1 | Fully Online & Interactive

High School German Year 1 | Fully Online & Interactive

Perfect for: Grades 8-12+ / Ages 12-18+ Course includes: 1 complete year / 180 day lesson calendar | Interactive games | Listen & record lessons | Culture videos | Online testing and assesment | Automated grade book | Automated student tracking | Advisor and student views Course Overview A multi-media, game-based approach makes this introductory German course different from traditional approaches to language learning. Advanced teaching techniques are used to turn compelling adventures and activities into rigorous lessons in grammar and vocabulary. This course provides a solid foundation for reading, speaking, writing, and understanding German and cultivates a passion for the language through exposure to culture and dynamic experiences of real people and real places. This course also features cutting-edge adaptive learning technology that lets students select the learning style that’s right for them. What You Will Learn Phrases Greetings, introductions, relationships, cause and effect, how to express likes and dislikes and how to ask questions. Vocabulary Numbers 1-1000, adjectives, animals, body parts, medical words, family words, colors, food, and classroom objects. Grammar Noun/adjective agreement with gender, use of modifiers, prepositions, possession, masculine and feminine nouns with articles, plural article agreement and passive voice. Culture Students will gain an understanding of German speaking cultures including economy, traditions, history and political structure.


German High School Year 2 | Fully Online & Interactive

German High School Year 2 | Fully Online & Interactive

Perfect for: Grades 8-12+ / Ages 12-18+ Course includes: 1 complete year / 180 day lesson calendar | Interactive games | Listen & record lessons | Culture videos | Online testing and assesment | Automated grade book | Automated student tracking | Advisor and student views Course Overview Students with a beginning foundation in German will see their skills soar through compelling lessons that give them access to content so interesting that they forget that they are learning German. This unique learning methodology, which relies heavily on games and stories, works effectively to take students from a tentative understanding of German basics to a greater level of sophistication. This course concentrates on students’ ability to articulate more and more complex thoughts and to understand authentic native language from a variety of enticing sources. What You Will Learn Students will increase reading and listening comprehension, and vocabulary usage as they learn sentence patterns, advanced phrases, identify objects from descriptions, translate to and from German, create stories, and understand directions. • Conversation skills through expanded vocabulary such as family, food, education, work-related, shopping, medical, weather, geography, math, plants, animals, and directions. Vocabulary is also increased through poems, stories, and ditties. • Grammar includes object pronouns with finite and infinite verbs; past, present and future tense verbs; genders; prepositions; personal pronouns (nominative, accusative and dative); direct and indirect objects; gerunds; imperative tense; verb conjugations; dependant clauses; modifiers; reflexive verbs; indicative and subjunctive verb forms; present perfect and past perfect tenses; conditional tense; and proper use of adjectives. • This course also emphasizes intense listening comprehension challenges that inspire students to understand complex thoughts and subjects. • The increased language skills acquired in this course make higher level cultural and social content open to students who are exposed to some of the literary and social treasures of German-speaking countries.