[clivehawkins]

For the younger kids I love Ozmo - it's a programme aimed at teaching numbers, colours, greetings etc etc. There are songs, sketches and it's all done as a type of news programme from a studio, presented by two 'muppet-like' puppets.

As for the older ones, I often use Mr Bean. There's no dialogue but I use it to elicit language from them eg What's he doing? What's he going to do? What has he just done? What did he do before that? etc etc. With a stronger class you can even get them to create a dialogue and act it out from behind the TV - great fun!