Talking Big Books on CD-ROM

George the Goldfish
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This story's theme is life-cycles of plants and animals: Harry's goldfish dies, but he plants some bulbs on his pet's grave and in spring new flowers appear...

Harry
Pero un día el pez dorado de Harry se muere.
Your children will enjoy reading the book with French and English parallel texts -also in Spanish

Story summary:
Harry is sad when George his pet goldfish dies and is buried in the garden.
But when spring comes, Harry has a wonderful surprise.

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Some of the varied activities on the CD-ROM
As well as the story - beautifully told in French by a native speaker - you'll find these activities and more...

Hangman
See and hear the story at whatever pace you choose - with options to repeat, see or hide the text, and see English if you want.
…play 'Hangman' with a twist - each correct letter guessed takes Monkey nearer his banana, but make too many wrong guesses, and Tiger will pounce…
…play "Simon Says..." - you hear a word and have have a few seconds to pick the right picture…
quiz
as the picture reveals, how quickly can you guess the word in Spanish? ..
…'Hear a sentence from the story - then re-arrange the jumbled words you are given to write out that sentence…
…and a fun QUIZ, to help children understand the story, and focus on some linguistic points.
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