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This is a FREE Trial lesson from our Kids 1 Interactive Digital English Course for young learners ages 3–6 years old. Flashcards, student’s book activities, workbook activities, videos, and games are included in the full versions. Our English courses are fun and interactive so all the students will be able to fully engage in these lessons ensuring positive results because the kids will want to come back many times to watch the videos or play the games. The great news is that they aren’t just watching videos or playing games but they are learning English in a fun and convenient way.

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This week's featured Free Learning Units Free Video Booster: A video exercise based on the clip of "Evanora vs. Theodora" from  Oz The Great And Powerful . A 6-step interactive lesson to help you improve your English. Learn new words and expressions including  impostor ,  in league , and oaf , and practice them with  Swap Mania  and  Word Rescue  games. Play Now Free Photo Vocab: A visual dictionary about  Parts Of The Body . Learn  16 new words and expressions  on this theme, each with an illustration, definition, sample sentence, and audio file for correct pronunciation. Practice this vocabulary with  Swap Mania ,  Word Rescue  and  Speed Pix  games. Play Now This Week's Free Bonus Game: A  SayWhat?  game based on a video clip from  All Good Things . Practice your listening and comprehension ski...

Videogames & learning, tesol italy nov 2009 from Ajarn Donald's English Language Services 1. VIDEOGAMESThe Learning Revolution Implications for EFL TESOL Italy Conference November 2009 2. Who are we? Media and videogame experts. Co-founders of the first fully entertainment-focused TEFL companyNBC Vivendi GamesUniversal Interactive CNNI Play Apple Sierra on-line 3. Video GamesA Planetary Success 4. The World’s Fastest-Growing Entertainment Segment $55 billion in annual retail sales 100m + games consoles sold every year 600m console games will be sold this year 55 million people play online games 5. More importantly, videogames are now…Colonizing the familyliving room…..and impacting totallynew areas of our lives. 6. New trends: social Network Games A single Facebook game can attract 60m + users/ month 7. New trends: iPhone Games20,000 new games titles published in just 16 months 8. WHY are videogames so popular? 9. BECAUSE our brains like videogames! 10....

Psychologists have expressed concerns that playing some video games makes children more aggressive, Photograph: Tim Hawley/Getty Images Jessica Shepherd , education correspondent guardian.co.uk ,  Tuesday 3 April 2012 15.55 BST Article history   A growing number of young  children  are acting out violent scenes from adult computer  games  in the playground, teachers have warned. Pupils as young as four and five are simulating car crashes and graphic injuries as a result of playing games unsupervised in their bedrooms, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) annual conference was told. A motion at the conference called on ministers to introduce "stringent legislation" to counter the "negative effects some computer games are having on the very young". Primary school teachers said the games were making their pupils far more aggressive and addicted to " fantasy worlds that separate them from reality". Doctors found children who continually p...