Little Tails of the Unexpected
- Learn with a giggle and a gasp!
Primary Levels
  • Levels 1-4 of the English National Curriculum
  • Levels C-D of the Scottish 5-14 Curriculum


  • Little Tails is perfect for motivating disaffected or low-ability pupils in Secondary Schools.

    Languages
    French and Spanish
    German and Italian coming soon

    Pricing:
    Single User Licence £79
    Multi User Site Licence: £150

    The discs come with a teachers's guide and a resource pack.

    Description
    Little Tails of the Unexpected exploits stories to the full. It introduces language through 4 traditional stories, each with a twist in the tail! Little Red Riding Hood is a black belt in karate, Cinderella turns into a pumpkin, The Beast likes devouring live crunchy spiders and the Frog Prince is a boring old sausage!

    Cross curricular activities include putting on a play for Drama, joining Cinderella in a P.E lesson, discussing the moral outcome of the Frog Prince story, analysing the Beast's diet and joining Little Red Riding Hood for a walk in the forest.
    Be amazed at how much this resource has to offer: an interactive learning programme, over 100 worksheets, grammar movies, talking books, big books, plays, masks, puppets, stickers, posters, songs, and plenty of creative ideas and games to keep children - teachers and parents - happy!

    Content - Be Amazed!
    B. Management System
    Description:
    The pupils can log-in and a record of their scores will be kept for progress tracking.
    C. Over forty language-learning tasks
    Description:
    In the dungeon, over two hundred vocabulary items, twenty-two curricular topics and sentence-building structures are learnt through over forty tasks which show progression in a clear and progressive way.
    D. Books
    Description:
    The stories can be projected onto a whiteboard (Talking Books) and downloaded to make books of any size.
    Mini books allow pupils to have their own books to read through and take home. Sound files allows them to listen to the text while they are reading.
    E. Plays
    Description:
    Turn the books into plays for assemblies or bigger productions. These guided plays come with sound effects and a voice recording to help with the pronunciation. The masks and puppets can be used with these.

    In this photo, the children are rehearsing Little Red Riding Hood, using the Talking Books as a prompt in the boackground.
    F. Songs and Rhymes
    Description:
    12 animated songs with worksheets.
    H. Flashcards
    Description:
    There are two flashcards for each language item: the graphic and the word which is built into a sentence.

    Mini flashcards, like the mini books, allows pupils to have their own set to learn from. The pupils can collect these mini flashcards which they can revisit frequently.
    L. High Frequency Words
    Description:
    ‘There are roughly only 12 words which make up 25% of the words in a text’ Wren (2003).

    This fact alone highlights the importance of High Frequency Words. They are essential for understanding sentences and sentence-building. In the interactive version of Little Tails of the Unexpected, High Frequency Words are referred to as ‘Little Magic Words’.

    You can download these flashards to help you teach these very important words.
    N. Stickers
    Description:
    Children love stickers!
    O. Posters
    Description:
    Download these posters to any size.
    R. Puppets
    Description:
    The pupils can make their own string puppets using paper fasteners.

    Or, cut out the characters and make finger or pencil puppets.
    S. Origami T-shirts
    Description:
    Have fun making these t-shirts. Pupils can write a sentence on the back and draw their own design on the front – or use one of the designs provided.
    T. Board Games
    Description:
    Snakes and Ladders, Noughts and Crosses and Treasure
    Island are popular board games and can be played as a
    whole class using a whiteboard or in groups.
    U. Scoreboard
    Description:
    Use this scoreboard for playing games. Cut out the characters. They can represent a group or individuals. Each time they lose a point, they move one space forward on the plank. The last person to fall into the sea with the sharks wins. You could play a game with the teacher against the whole class. The pirate could be the teacher!
    V. Talking Heads
    Description:
    Have a conversation with these Talking Heads.