Special offers

Special offers available for ALL Members:

(To find out your ALL Membership Number, please call 0116 229 7600).

Teachit

Here at ALL, we like to keep our members up to date with all the latest opportunities and developments in language teaching, and here’s one we’d like to tell you a bit more about.

ALL Corporate Member Teachit is an established online educational publisher with a unique approach: it works co-operatively, sharing a proportion of subscription revenues with the teachers who contribute materials. The original site for secondary English, www.teachit.co.uk, was launched in 1999 and has since been joined by sites for primary, ELT, Citizenship and Maths teachers. Together, these sites now offer over 25,000 pages of resources, all created and edited by teachers. ALL has been working with Teachit on the development of a new resources site, just for teachers of languages.

Now Teachit is launching its brand new site – Teachit Languages – and we wanted you to be the first to know!
 

Chinese New Year - the Year of the Dragon!

China Club HQ

The China Club HQ online programme helps support cross curricular teaching and learning of Mandarin and Chinese culture in Primary and Secondary Schools, Lunchtime and After School clubs, and through a lively Magazine, TV Shows, Curriculum Resource Bank, and easy to use Collaboration Area which facilitates local, regional, national and international projects.
Click here to find out more about the online programme, which costs from just £195 for a School AND Home Licence.
You can also work offline through the China Club HQ TV Rom Resource Pack, which provides for 48 self or group study modules, together with an accompanying Cross Curricular CD ROM for resources and project work.
Click here to find out more about the TV ROM Course, which costs just £89 for a School Licence.
China Club HQ are currently offering 1 years free access to each Primary school associated with a subscribing Secondary School (Special Offer for the month of February only) and many more great discounts for Cluster, Group or Authority Purchases.
 

The Chinese Staffroom

Has the Chinese New Year stimulated your interest in how you could incorporate more learning about China and Chinese into your school? The Chinese Staffroom (www.thechinesestaffroom) is the No.1 dedicated website for Chinese and China in schools. Look here for general resources (Chinese New Year) or here for advice on where to start (Chinese as different not difficult) or here for advice on school trips to China (advice from a teacher).

 

Grow Story Grow

GrowStoryGrow has a traditional (but sad) story for Chinese New Year about the Great Wall of China, with some lovely animation and sound effects. First, show the children where the wall is on a map and explain to them the huge loss of life and hardship workers underwent. You could also play the story in Mandarin, just for fun. Languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Mandarin.

You can access it directly by going to www.growstorygrow.com and use the following login details:
username: chinese
password: newyear (do not use capitals or spaces!)
The story will be available to ALL members for a week. Warning - a beautiful, but sad story!

 

University of Cambridge International Examinations

Happy Chinese New Year! In the year of the dragon, take a look at qualifications offered by University of Cambridge International Examinations to develop students' Chinese. They offer IGCSEs in Chinese as a Foreign Language and Chinese First Language. At 16-19, CIE offer Cambridge Pre-U Mandarin Chinese, as preparation for university with more time for teaching and learning. Students wanting a one-year option, equivalent to AS Level, can also take Cambridge Pre-U Short Course in Mandarin Chinese.
 

Chinese at the BBC

Get a taste for Chinese, watch an introduction to the language, learn how to pronounce and write the characters, and much more on the BBC Languages website. 

 

British Council

Find ideas, stories and games at the British Council’s website.

 

ALL

To find out more about Mandarin at ALL, click here.  

 

 

Languages Direct French and Spanish Audio Magazines Subscription Special Offer

For the next 30 days Languages Direct is offering ALL members an exclusive discount on a year’s subscription to their two bi-monthly audio magazines, Bien-dire and Punto y Coma, for intermediate to advanced speakers of French and Spanish.

Both Bien-dire and Punto y Coma are the perfect resource for use in the classroom or for self-study as they provide up-to-date, culturally-rich, high quality audio and written content which helps improve listening comprehension, vocabulary acquisition and the ability to speak French (or Spanish) as it is really spoken. As an incentive to try out a subscription, for the next 30 days, Languages Direct are offering a 10% discount on a year’s subscription, that’s £89 instead of £99 for a six issue, one year subscription.

To claim your discount all you need to do is add the code ‘ALLSUBOFFER’ in the voucher box at checkout and they will rush you your first copy of either Bien-dire or Punto y Coma. You can also call Languages Direct's Freephone number on 0800 141 2210 to place your order. NB If you’re buying for a school, as well as paying by credit card, you can also order online using a purchase order number and pay later by invoice.  

 

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