The Teentalk programs are an entertaining, yet effective way of learning English. They are based on authentic, everyday English language spoken by real British and Canadian teenagers. The advantages of interactive learning make working with spoken language easy. The student can listen to questions and answers as many times as desired, and a studio-recorded version and a text version are also available. The language unfolds piece by piece and listening, reading and observation skills are all utilized. The built-in exercises also take advantage of multimedia. Traditional exercises take on new dimensions - everything can be listened to or, alternatively, read as text. Grammar rules are easily memorized by listening to example phrases.

In both programs there is a special area for teachers protected by a password where the transcripts and answer keys for the exercises can be found. There is also easy-to-print supplementary material as well as ideas for group work and pair work.

Why not take advantage of teenagers’ natural curiosity and offer them a learning tool that enables them to take a peek at the life and thoughts of British and Canadian teens?

The second CD-ROM in the Teentalk series takes the learner to a Canadian high school, where 19 Canadian teenagers share their views on numerous subjects in videotaped interviews. Just like the British Teentalk program, this Teentalk Canada focuses on authentic language, offering the possibility of listening to the videoclips and reading the texts over and over again. It also includes innovative, interactive exercises.

The Teentalk language programs received the RIP Label of Quality from the French Ministry of Education in 2004: The French Ministry of Education has developed a special label of quality in order to facilitate the use of ICT and multimedia for teaching purposes.
The RIP label (’recognized as being of educational value’) is bestowed on digital educational material that is deemed to have educational value and be pedagogically sound; the material has been tested and approved by the Ministry’s evaluation panel.