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Always envied your colleagues because they have Muzzy?

Muzzy DVD Language Learning Programis now available for teaching Mandarin!

Muzzy, the lovable character created by the BBC, has taught and entertained countless children over the years. Muzzy uses a natural approach with the lessons in the target language, so that the child learns easily and naturally.

Each set includes:

5 DVDs: 2 Story DVDs in Mandarin, 2 Story DVDs in English, 1 Vocabulary Builder (in Mandarin and English only)

Audio CD
Colourful Script Book (in Mandarin and English)
Parents` Guides
Storage Case

Subtitles in Pinyin (English transliteration), traditional Chinese Characters, modern Chinese Characters and English.

For further details contact the Language Centre

AEF website: There are two useful links on the AEF website with teaching resources: lesson plans and other teaching aids and online resources such as "Talking Heads", "My place Australia Asia" and "Secondary Arts Activities"

Talking Heads

Primary and secondary students are invited to a) create a visual portrait of an older person – a parent, grandparent or friend – and b) record that person's memories of key events and milestones in their life in the form of an interview. When a number of Talking Heads portraits are collected, they constitute a fascinating gallery of imagery and social history, providing wonderful opportunities for learning and discussion activities, either within classrooms or between schools both within Australia and overseas. The site includes the Templates for the activity and many examples of students' work. These activities can help students to discover other cultures and ways of seeing the world.

My Place Asia Australia

The My Place Asia Australia website is for teachers and students across the middle years of schooling. Its focus is the visual arts and includes Links, a Teachers' Guide and Art Gallery, which showcases over 100 artworks, stories and responses from students in schools across Australia, Korea, China and India. The artworks are presented in eleven themes with focus questions to guide independent student activity.

Secondary Arts Activities

The materials for secondary Arts students have been developed by Queensland Art Gallery Education Officers and Anne Bamford, Senior Lecturer, Visual Arts and Arts Education at the University of Technology, Sydney.

The key aims of this material are to develop a greater understanding of contemporary art, with special emphasis on art practice of the Asian region, support and enrich the material already produced by the Queensland Art Gallery for the Asian Pacific Triennial 2002 website with secondary visual art materials, and to provide materials relevant to the curriculum outcomes of secondary Arts teachers in all State and Territories.