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Based around an adventure story, students learn a language as they solve puzzles, discover clues, and exercise their resourcefulness. Power-Glide offers what no other program can: the most effective teaching methods woven together for an unrivaled learning experience.

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The Path Toward Language Fluency

The Power-Glide Ultimate courses open the door to new skills and opportunities that only learning a new language can provide. With the most innovative and effective language teaching activities available, these courses start students on a path toward language fluency. Year 1 courses are easy enough for beginners, but robust enough to take them through the equivalent of at least 1 year of study. Year 2 courses pick up right where Year 1 courses end and provide the equivalent of at least 1 more year of study.

What Students Learn

The activities in the courses are diverse enough to accommodate many different learning styles and aptitudes. Students will find music, stories, memory aids, Diglot Weave™ narratives, you-are-there adventures, kinesthetic, visual, audio activities, and more.

Student who complete Ultimate courses are able to speak freely and expressively in the target language. They won't find mazes of grammar rules, boring rote memorization, and mind-numbing drills. Instead, the courses give them real language learning—the kind where they actually internalize the language, and begin to use it as their own.

Keeping Track of Students

Power-Glide's Online Calendar and Progress Tests are designed to help instructors keep closer tabs on students' progress and will assist in assigning a grade. This resource includes the following:

• Daily Lesson Plans
• Interactive Activities
• Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Culture Assessments

The Calendar indicates when tests are to be taken, and the results are automatically emailed to the teacher, mentor or administrator who is tracking the students' progress.

Why are Power-Glide programs so effective? They are a blend of the best innovations based on up-to-date understanding of linguistics and learning psychology.

With few exceptions, language-learning methods have not changed much in the past 50 years. What you typically find today is the old "listen-and-repeat" methods done with new technology: tapes, CDs, computers, etc., packaged and worded to make them seem new. But they usually aren't new at all. They are the same old "uglies" of language learning repackaged to look new. The essence hasn't changed. Listen to Dr. Blair's own introduction to his unique methods.

Occasionally a few creative geniuses have made breakthroughs in language learning. For example:

Each breakthrough has added something to language learning effectiveness. But, each method focused on its own approach almost exclusively. Then one linguist, Dr. Robert Blair, took the most revolutionary step of all. He put the best of them together into a systematic learning process, added his own innovations, and tested and validated it with thousands of students. This integrated and improved result is now known as the POWER-GLIDE method.

Power-Glide programs are revolutionary because they do not limit themselves to one type of learning strategy, but utilize the best practices from around the world. Most developers of language training have one primary strategy that they use. It might be listening and repeating, or role-playing, mnemonics, games, Diglot Weave™ stories, or any number of other approaches. While these methods might be good for certain situations, the Power-Glide programs use each strategy for its best application. Thus, the overall learning is accelerated exponentially. Also, the variety of learning activities and approaches make it easy for all types of learners to absorb the language faster than with traditional methods.

The self-paced nature of the courses makes it possible for teachers or parents who do not know the target language to help a child learn without any prior training. Our courses actually offer teacher/parent guides that are filled with ideas to keep students motivated and progressing.

Ultimate Year 1 includes: WORKBOOK 438 Pages. The core of Power-Glide's robust and award winning language course. Divided into sections, it includes an integrated Academic Guide, learning objectives, lesson plans, cultural info, self-tests, test keys, written exercises, and is linked to the audio CDs, so finding your way through it is as easy as pushing "play" and following along. 4 AUDIO CDs Audio activities from the course are conveniently organized and separated by track on the CDs. INTERACTIVE CD-ROM Supplementary interactive language activities and resources from the course that you can enjoy on your computer. Includes: • cultural exploration • practice activities • electronic dictionary • progress tests • WIN/MAC Compatible Ultimate Year 2 includes: WORKBOOK 400 Pages. The core of Power-Glide's robust and award winning language course. Divided into sections, it includes an integrated Academic Guide, learning objectives, lesson plans, cultural info, self-tests, test keys, written exercises, and is linked to the audio CDs, so finding your way through it is as easy as pushing "play" and following along. 6 AUDIO CDs Audio activities from the course are conveniently organized and separated by track on the CDs. INTERACTIVE CD-ROM Supplementary interactive language activities and resources from the course that you can enjoy on your computer. Includes: • cultural exploration • practice activities • electronic dictionary • progress tests • WIN/MAC Compatible