The Interactive Language Workshop is built around the idea that we most effectively learn and retain a second language when we use it for communication. Thus each module of the Workshop teaches a core vocabulary with pictures, sound and the written word, and then culminates in an activity in which the learner uses the new language to accomplish a communication-based task. The BodyBuilder module teaches body and face vocabulary. The activities allow students to custom design the face or figure of a person or a monster. In the TimeTeller module, students respond to questions about when events take place and when trains and busses arrive and depart.
Students learn as they are introduced to a family.
Pictures and sound make the vocabulary come alive. In the MysteryFamily activity, student must ask family members questions in order to guess their identity. The DressMe module teaches clothing and accessories. Students control what the two DressMe characters will wear. Students will use furniture vocabulary and prepositions of location in the HouseKey module in order to find the hidden keys and move through the house.