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Start Smart is an interactive multimedia environment for entertainment, learning and self-education in English language for children aged 5-10. Start Smart is based on a proprietary (Sirma Media & Iglika Angelova) educational methodology that has been tested in classroom and proved to be furthermore suitable for self-education in English language for Elementary level.
Start Smart contains educational material for approximately 500 lexical items, organized thematically as follows: letters and sounds; home and class-room objects; colors; figures; food; clothing; parts of the body and face; basic grammar for verb tense (present simple and present continuous); the verb CAN; the clock; days of the week; the seasons; lots of animals and many others.
The recorded music is composed especially for the needs of the product. All the vocabulary, playing tips, songs and narrative are performed by native speaker.
Start Smart is rather interactive than merely illustrative in its approach towards the language learning process. The product provides young learners with the opportunity to take active participation in the course of learning by playing, set their own learning tempo and choose appropriate level of difficulty.
The navigation is visual and intuitive with voiceover because of the learners' age and different computer skills of the children. The application's screen hides the desktop thus protecting the software and personal files of the parents.
The product contains detailed instructions for classroom activities as well as practical guidelines for both teachers and parents.
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Multimedia educational games included in the product:
LETTERS, WORDS, GRAMMAR - 4 games