Wednesday, August 19, 2009

New school year ahead!


Kids learning the action song On Halloween at a FunSongs Show.
The Australian singer and actor Costa Latsos has worked for
FunSongs and CAIL since 2006.

Everyone in education is getting ready for the new school year which starts on September 1st in Latvia and a week or so later in Italy. Since the FunSongs theatre group started travelling around Italy performing its interactive FunSongs Shows back in 2000, the FunSongs Halloween Show has been one of its most popular. The worksheets in the "On Halloween" package recycle and practise the words of Charles Goodger's song in a variety of different ways including in Worksheet 9 practise with the difficult plurals of witch and mouse and sky. In Latvia where Charles Goodger is currently living, FunSongs Shows are performed by the National Latvia Puppet Theatre in Riga.

LATE English Teachers Conference

This week at the Faculty of Modern Languages of Riga University, Charles Goodger will be holding a plenary at the annual English Teachers conference organized by LATE. He will talk about combining entertainment with learning and assisted by two mother-tongue actors present the FunSongs Quiz Show, a language competition for older children aged 11 upwards.