Red Herring Red Snapper Learning Curve

Red Herring
and
Red Snapper
by Learning Curve Education

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Red Herring

Red Herring is an interactive computer game designed to support the learning and teaching of French and German at Key Stages 3 and 4. Players adopt the role of a police detective investigating the murder of a local journalist, Max Herring. They must interview the residents of Max's home town in order to uncover clues and solve the crime. The game also contains a range of engaging vocabulary prizes designed to enhance the learning process. From the beginning, pupils are captivated by the original and gripping storylines. Once they are drawn in to solving the mystery of the murder of Max Herring, learners see the vocabulary tasks as integral to the challenge of the game. They also benefit from interacting with, and listening to, native language speakers. Red Herring includes a built-in automated translation system to support less confident learners.

Available in French or German. A Spanish version is under development. Please specify language(s) when ordering.

Playing the game

The aim of the game is to unravel the mysterious murder of journalist Max Herring. In order to solve the crime, learners are required to:

interview witnesses and suspects who respond in their natural language;
use vocabulary skills to uncover vital clues and forensic evidence;
solve language puzzles to reveal the identity of the murderer;
complete special tasks to test knowledge of the target language, culture and travel.

Red Herring supports learning within a range of different environments. It can be:

installed on a school network and played by learners independently, or in groups;
played as a whole-class learning experience using a laptop connected to a data projector or interactive whiteboard;
accessed from home to reinforce key vocabulary and learning, and to engage parents in the learning experience;
played independently within study centres and support for learning departments.

Red Snapper

Red Snapper is an interactive computer game designed to support the learning and teaching of French, German and Spanish at Key Stages 2, 3 and 4. Red Snapper places learners in a haunted mansion, where they must solve the mystery of the magical Red Snapper. They meet and interact with the ghostly Snapper family, each of whom provides clues to the story in their native language. The game also contains a range of engaging vocabulary puzzles. Once drawn in to solve the Red Snapper mystery, learners see the vocabulary tasks as integral to the challenge of the game. They also benefit from interacting with and listening to native speakers. Red Snapper also includes a built-in automated translation system to help support less confident learners.

Available in French, German and Spanish. Please specify language(s) when ordering.

Red Snapper consists of:

the Red Snapper interactive mystery game,
a teacher’s guide which provides strategies and advice for teaching modern foreign languages,
pupil tasks and activities,
an interactive teachers' toolkit featuring Red Snapper characters teaching vocabulary and other tools.

Vocabulary and grammar

Red Snapper teaches over 250 key vocabulary items across the following areas: names, greetings, food, family, relationships, numbers, ages, colours, the body, clothes, time, weather, sports and hobbies, the house and furniture, animals, locations, occupations and the calendar. More advanced levels of the game help learners to develop and reinforce grammatical skills in the target language.

Prices

Red Herring: French, German
Site licence: £250.00 for one language. Additional languages: £100.00

Red Snapper: French, German, Spanish
Site licence: £250.00 for one language. Additional languages: £100.00