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Tick-Tack TT2010 !!! |
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" Euro-Skills courses – at Cambridge University "
collaborate successfully with partners across Europe
" CLIL - Use English to teach
your subjects " / " Great opportunities for Japanese" |
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日本の友人に新たなるチャンスを！ 外国語学習会 |
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We are Primrose Publishing (Cambridge, England). For 30 years we have
been producing highly-acclaimed programs for teaching English and other languages
in schools, colleges, universities, companies and international organizations
all over Europe and North America.
The new TT2010 - a total redesign of Tick-Tack
Continuing its highly-successful progress, Tick-Tack is now available in
a much-enhanced version of TT2010. It includes programs in Chinese, Japanese
and Arabic. Now covering 50 languages, the 30 different programs range
from the simplest "Survival" and "ABC" programs for total
beginners to the latest "Mechanical Engineering" - from programs for
Business and Tourism to programs for Email, CV, Informatics, Telephone,
Teaching, Shopping and Cuisine Menus.
7 programs in Arabic have recently been added to the range. They can be
used by those wanting to learn or improve their Arabic as well as by Arabic-speakers
wishing to improve their skills in any of the other languages, from Basque to
Swahili.
All the languages are in unicode so the same versions can be offered on
the DVD and on-line. To try the free-of-charge Internet version, click on
"T-T on-line".
The 30 Tick-Tack programs meet a wide range of language needs.
They run under Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista.and Windows 7. They
can be run on both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
Tick-Tack Tech
A completely new range of programs is now available for technology and
engineering. The series is called "Tick-Tack Tech". The first
program is for mechanical engineering. It is fully-developed and is already
included on the DVD.
The name “Tick-Tack”
The name Tick-Tack stands for "Tomorrow's Instant Correspondence
Kit". It was originally developed to speed-up business
correspondence. Clocks say "tic-tac, tic-tac," in many languages. The
name underlines the fact that the programs save time.
Choose the program that suits you best
Survival, ABC, Starter, Everyday, Business, Travel & Tourism,
Telephone, CV, Euro-Post, Email, Exchange, Telephone, Email, CV, Directions,
Negotiating, Presentations, Meetings, Graphs & Charts, Engineering,
Exchange, Teaching, Shopping, Hotels, Military, Business Starter,
Academic-Lifeline, Cuisine Menus, Informatics, Euro-Skills - and 3 programs in
Latin: magister, grammaticus and rhetor.
Choose your language
The Tick-Tack range covers 50 languages: from Armenian to Ukranian. For
a full list of languages, click here.
What the programs do
Each program offers a data-base of lively, modern texts, in the form of
building-block sentences. Each sentence has its own code-number and each
has a direct equivalent in the other languages. .
Multi-media
Authentic recordings, by native speakers, of the entire text material
are provided on the DVD for the main programs and languages. With the
recordings you can listen to the sound while studying the text on the screen.
You can then practise your own pronunciation by speaking into the microphone.
On-screen exercises
A wide range of ready-made, on-screen tasks, exercises and projects is
provided for the main programs and languages. Model answers are provided.
Multilingual wordlists are also included. These have proved hugely motivating
to students and to teachers.
How the programs work
You scroll through the data-base on screen, topic by topic in your
mother-tongue, and select the sentences you need for the particular exercise,
or for creating your own draft text. The equivalent sentence then appears on
the screen in the target language that you have selected. The educational value
lies in manipulating the text on the screen and turning it into the final
document, by modifying grammar, structure, tense and vocabulary.
This offers a fascinating challenge to even the most advanced student,
whilst beginners find they can achieve far more than they ever thought
possible. They get a real sense of achievement when they print out their work
and show it to parents and friends. "I did it myself" provides great
motivation. This is the first step on the road to creative writing.
Personal support
In the Tick-Tack software the Primrose team offer many unique features,
but the one that people have most appreciated has been the personal involvement
and dedication of the authors and their willingness to give individual
attention to anyone interested in their programs.
The Tick-Tack concept
To discover how and why we developed the Tick-Tack programs and to
appreciate the novel concept behind this unique language-learning system, click here.
Meet the Primrose team
Primrose Publishing was formed in 1975 by Anne and David Sephton, two
keen linguists from Oxford, at Primrose Farm, a 15th century moated manor-house
in Norfolk, which was their home. For pictures of Primrose farm, click here, and here, and here. It was at Primrose
Farm that they created the Tick-Tack range of language programs and produced
their first software.
To hear a message from the original team at Primrose Farm, click here. To see pictures
of the original team, click
here, and here and here.
In 1988 they moved their head-quarters to a 400-year-old "Suffolk
Long Barn" not far from Cambridge. For pictures of Vicarage Long Barn, click here, and here. They ran their first
Tick-Tack exhibition in
London.
In 1998 they moved to their present home and offices, a converted mediaeval
yeoman’s house in the idyllic Danes Vale, an ancient Viking farmstead in
rolling countryside near the Suffolk/Essex border. For some views of Danes
Vale, click here, and here. For the view from
our training area. click here.
Network of linguists
We have an informal network of over a hundred dedicated linguists,
including language teachers, ITC specialists and business professionsals,
spread throughout Europe and beyond, including Russia, Eastern Europe, North
America and the Far East.
This network represents an unrivalled fund of language expertise,
invaluable as a source of new ideas, feedback and initiatives for developing
the Tick-Tack range and for promoting links between universities, colleges,
schools and individuals interested in joint projects using the Internet.
Teachers interested in taking part in this network, or in co-operating
with us to develop new programs and new language versions are welcome to
contact us. We are keen to welcome further teachers in all languages, but
especially those involved in Russian, Welsh, Gaelic, Malay, Indonesian,
Rumantsch, Latin and Greek (both Classical and Modern).
Leonardo programme
Primrose Publishing has been a key partner in a 4-year Leonardo program,
co-funded by the European Commission, to develop advanced-language training
software to help students preparing for professional examinations in Business
and in Tourism, in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian, with Slovenian
and Hungarian as additional working languages. The partners included the
Universities of Cambridge and Le Mans, the Chambre de Commerce et d' Industrie
in Paris, the Ministry of Education in Vienna, the Dante Alighieri Language
Centre in Florence, the CEBS Teacher Training Centre in Salzburg, a technology
school in Ljubljana, and a leading Business School in Budapest. The Tick-Tack
programs play a critical role in the project.
AD79: 3 Latin programs
The Tick-Tack software includes three Latin programs under the overall
title of “AD79” (the year Vesuvius erupted).They are magister, grammaticus
and rhetor. They can be used effectively by anyone studying
Latin, but will be found particularly relevant by those following the Cambridge
Latin Course. They are available with instructions in
English and Italian. The wide range of on-screen exercises includes colour
pictures of Roman scenes. Click
here for more details.
British Council - ELTeCS
Language teachers who are members of the British Council ELTeCS group
will find information via the ELTeCS system. Click here for further
details.
Prices
Teachers pay only a nominal price to install the DVD on their own
computer at home.
Help and advice
If you need further information, or wish to explore ways of using the computer,
or exploiting the Internet, for serious language work, please send us a short
e-mail message. We are particularly eager to hear from you if you are a
language teacher. Send us an e-mail message or fill in the Inquiry
form.
Sample texts
A large number of sample texts in different languages, contained in the
Tick-Tack software, can be accessed at various points in the detailed
descriptions listed below. These can be downloaded for use in class or for
private study. Fresh texts are added from time to time.
Detailed description of the programs
For details, in English, of the Tick-Tack
range, click here
For details of Tick-Tack EFL programs (English as a Foreign
Language), click here
Pour détails, en français, de la gamme Tick-Tack, cliquez ici
Für Einzelheiten, in deutscher Sprache, über das Tick-Tack
Programm, klicken Sie hier
Para detalles, en español, sobre la gamma Tick-Tack, apretar aquí
Per dettagli, in italiano, sulla gamma Tick-Tack, premete qui
For an interesting text in Russian, click here
For sample texts in additional languages, click here
To access our web-site in Ottawa, with text in Canadian French click here
and English, click
here
To access our web-site in Romania, with text in Romanian, click here
David Sephton
Primrose Publishing (Cambridge)
Danes Vale
Wethersfield
England
GB - CM7 4AH
( UK 01371 850 132
(
INTERNATIONAL (44) 1371 850 132
2 (44) 870 161
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