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PILOTE COMPETITION UPDATE

2009-12-11T18:00:01Z

Dear colleagues,

Just a quick update to let you know that all the "Pilote Moi" CD-ROMs
have now been won, but you can still claim one of the following:
- Pilote Mon Ecole (French)
- Pilote Ma ville (French)
- Pilote Faisons les courses (French)
- Pilote Número uno (Spanish)

Just to clarify, you entry should be sent by e-mail to

WIN A 'PILOTE' CD-ROM

2009-12-11T17:29:48Z

Dear colleague,

Linguascope wants to reward its newsletter subscribers by giving away
26 'Pilote' CD-ROMs (French or Spanish for Primary Schools). The first
26 people to claim their free CD-ROM will be the lucky winners.
For more information about the 'Pilote' series, visit
[link] (French) or

December Newsletter

2009-12-02T14:09:27Z

Dear colleagues,

LINGUASCOPE CONFERENCE
Just a quick note to keep you all updated with the Linguascope
Conference “Inspiration for Motivation”. For those of you who are not
yet aware Linguascope is organising a Conference next year in Brighton
on the 25th and 26th of June at the Thistle Hotel.

Language Show

2009-10-18T12:06:28Z

Dear colleagues,

Language Show
The Language Show will take place at the Olympia in London (30
October-1 November). Be sure not to miss this event and remember to
book your free ticket (saving £10 at the door) at [link]

C'est chouette!
Linguascope will be launching its new French DVD called 'C'est

August Newsletter

2009-08-12T16:36:14Z

Dear colleagues,

UNMISSABLE BARGAINS
Linguascope is having a big stock clearance and is selling its
leftover software on ebay. You can bid on a site licence from as
little as £0.99!!! You'd be mad to miss out!!! Software available in
French, Spanish, German, Italian, English, Mandarin and Japanese. When

July Newsletter

2009-07-31T15:02:37Z

Dear colleagues,

REVAMPED LINGUASCOPE SITE
You may have noticed the Linguascope website has had a make-over.
We've tried to make the site more appealing and easier to navigate.
All our resources are now (or will soon be) accessible via [link],
instead of being split up between various sites (Linguaprime,

Linguascope on your iPhone or iPod Touch

2009-06-08T11:46:36Z

Dear colleagues,

I have the pleasure of announcing the launch of the 'Linguascope
French Vocabulary Trainer' application for iPhone or iPod Touch. The
resources tie in to the online topics at Linguascope.com, so if you
use the website as well, the format will be familiar. But Linguascope
French Vocabulary Trainer opens up the fun world of Linguascope.com to

Big sale in Linguascope's online shop

2009-04-30T13:28:57Z

Dear colleagues,

We're having a clearout and we have put dozens of products on sale in
our online catalogue, with savings of up to 60%.
Visit our bargain corner before stock runs out:
[link]

Best regards,

Mr Stephane Derone
Linguascope • 189 Colchester Road • West Bergholt • Essex • CO6 3JY

March newsletter

2009-03-18T17:20:18Z

Dear all,

NEW TALKING DICE:
Seven new topics are available from today in the "Talking Dice" range
(Countries & Nationalities, Fruit, Housework, Places in Town, Rooms in
the House, Routine, Vegetables). For more information, visit:
[link]

NEW TOPICS ON LINGUASCOPE?
By popular demand, we are thinking of creating new topics on the

2009-02-11T15:30:48Z

Dear colleagues,

NEW FRENCH WEBSITE
Today Linguascope has launched a new website called ReelFrench.com, a
bank of French videos with accompanying interactive activities. The
site is freely accessible and new videos will be added every week. To
have a look at what is available so far, visit:
[link]

February Newsletter

2009-02-05T15:05:26Z

Dear colleagues,

LINGUASCOPE ON TWITTER:
For those who have never heard of it, Twitter is a social networking
and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read
other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based
posts of up to 140 characters in length. Linguascope has just opened a

Linguascope December Newsletter

2008-12-06T13:22:12Z

Dear colleagues,

TALKING DICE:
Most of you will be familiar with Talking Dice, a unique and creative
way to teach language skills to any age and ability. Linguascope has
just acquired Talking Dice and we are pleased with this great addition
to our family of products. We are also thrilled to announce the launch

New Linguascope Widget

2008-10-28T12:06:05Z

Dear colleagues,

NEW VIRTUAL PAD
The latest addition to Linguascope's sites is a virtual pad which is
ideal for the interactive whiteboard: [link]
The Linguascope Widgets site contains many more widgets and is freely
accessible, so do not hesitate to spread the word: [link]

Linguastars in Italian

2008-10-24T17:04:08Z

Dear colleagues,

LINGUASTARS IN ITALIAN
We have received hundreds of e-mails those last few months asking when
the Italian section of Linguastars will be available. Well, the
waiting is over... We are thrilled to annouce that the Italian section
was launched today.
To access it, simply log on to: [link]

Newsletter July 2008

2008-07-31T12:23:19Z

Dear colleagues,

NEW WIDGET SITE:
Linguascope Widgets is a new online tool that gives you the freedom to
play classroom games around any topic or vocabulary set, adding an ICT
element to your favourite non-ICT activities. If you need to add a
timed or random element to your games, or just want to track points on

Newletter May 2008

2008-05-29T12:46:54Z

Dear colleagues,

NEW BARGAIN CORNER ON LINGUASCOPE ONLINE SHOP
Linguascope's online shop has a new 'bargain corner' section with
items half price or less:
[link]

NEW BULLETIN BOARD TRIMMERS
Last week, we launched a new line of products: bulletin board trimmers

Linguascope on your mobile phone!

2008-05-09T11:53:18Z

Dear colleagues,

LINGUASCOPE ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE
We are thrilled to annouce that Linguascope has just launched its
mobile phone service.
If you already have a subscription, your students now have access to
mobile content to learn and practice vocabulary in French, Spanish,
German, Italian and English! There is no top-up to pay on your

New Linguascope SCORM Resources

2008-02-21T14:41:19Z

Dear colleagues,

I'm pleased to announce the launch of a new website: [link]
As more and more schools have Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs),
the demand for SCORM compliant resources is growing. However, there
are no language learning SCORM resources available on the market at

Something new on Linguascope!

2008-01-31T10:50:55Z

Dear colleagues,

THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE LINGUASCOPE FAMILY OF WEBSITES
Are you constantly looking for pictures to use for your worksheets,
flashcards and multimedia presentations? Then you will be delighted to
know that Linguascope has just launched a new website allowing
teachers to search and download images. How much does it cost? Well,

Linguascope October Newsletter

2007-10-05T15:42:36Z

Dear colleagues,
REVAMPED LINGUASCOPE SITE
If you've visited the linguascope site recently, you will have noticed
that all the activities have been revamped. The site's new mascot is
now a yellow fish - hence the aquatic theme. We are now working on the
site's home page in view of replacing the frog character with our new

Linguascope's new catalogue is here

2007-07-27T15:12:18Z

Dear colleagues,
We've been working on it since last May and it is finally ready!
Linguascope's 2007-2008 catalogue will be printed over the next few
weeks and sent out throughout the autumn term, but if you cannot wait,
a printable version can now be found online: [link]

New games on Linguascope

2007-06-01T11:17:38Z

Dear colleagues,
We are in the process of revamping all the games on Linguascope (as
well as adding new ones). You might have noticed the presentation
module has already been improved. However, a few people contacted us
to say they had a blank yellow page when trying to access any of the
presentation sections. The presentation module was completely

New worksheet creator on Linguamate.com

2007-04-03T12:43:41Z

Dear colleagues,
Many of you are using Linguamate to create interactive language games
(hangman, wordsearch, quizzes...), but did you know you can now create
printable worksheets using Linguamate?
The new facility was launched only today. We have been working on it
for months and we are thrilled that it is now live! There are

New Online Shop!

2007-03-07T17:07:44Z

Dear colleagues,
I am thrilled to announced the launch of our new, revamped online
shop: [link]
We have listened to your feedback and made the shop more user-friendly
and easier to navigate.
Have a look and don't hesitate to let us know what you think...
Best regards,
Mr Stephane Derone

Service Status

2007-01-18T10:17:56Z

Dear colleagues,
Good news: Linguascope.com is back to normal, so thankfully it didn't
last very long.
Thank you for your patience.
Best regards,
Mr Stephane Derone
Linguascope · Westwood Park · London Road · Little Horkesley ·
CO6 4BS
Tel 0870 042 7580 · Fax 0870 042 9085 · E-mail
steph...@linguascope.com

January Newsletter

2007-01-17T17:09:33Z

Dear colleagues,
NEW POSTERS IN SPANISH, GERMAN, ITALIAN & ENGLISH
We've received many requests for posters in Italian and English and new
ones in German and Spanish. We've therefore produced 12 new posters -
three for each language (family, house, town).
They are currently only available online:
[link]

New on the Linguascope sites...

2006-12-23T16:19:01Z

Dear colleagues,
One last update before Christmas. There's plenty of new things on the
Linguascope sites...
LINGUASTARS IN SPANISH:
Earlier this month, we launched the German version of Linguastars.
Yesterday, it was the turn of the Spanish version to be launched!
19 topic sections are available - 11 more will follow shortly.

Linguastars in German

2006-12-10T13:52:25Z

Dear colleagues,
I'm delighted to announce that the German section of Linguastars (the
GCSE website) is now ready and has literally just been launched. This
has taken 8 long months to complete and was due to be launched early
2007, but as everything was ready we didn't see any reason to wait.
We are still working on the Spanish version, which should be available

New game on Linguamate.com

2006-11-13T15:12:45Z

Dear colleagues,
Just a quick message to point out that a new game has been added to the
Linguamate site over the weekend: It's called "Triple Trouble" and it's
basically a version of Connect 4, where players have to answer a
question correctly before they are allowed their turn.
I've created an sample: [link]

German poster recall

2006-11-06T16:11:15Z

Dear colleagues,
We have just spotted several mistakes on the German poster on classroom
rules ("Klassenregeln"). As a consequence, I have decided to have a
corrected version reprinted and offer a free replacement to anyone who
has purchased a copy.
If you have bought one or several copies before today, you are invited

Welcome to the new home of the Linguascope newsletter!

2006-11-01T11:01:54Z

The Linguascope Newsletter used to be managed by Smartgroups.com who
has recently announced it was closing down. We have therefore decided
to move our Newsletter to Google groups:
[link]
All former members have been transferred, but should you wish to
unsubscribe, simply visit: