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Article: Tom & Laia's Tales

Tom and Laia's Tales is an educational webpage offered by edu365.cat to teachers and students of English. These are simple and interactive stories, which require the participation and interest of students to develop their audiovisual skills.The stories and the interactive activities have very different themes, which allow learning the language records of a very diverse, as well as teaching important values to society. Each story gives the opportunity to go back to and re-read and listen to the parts which have been less clear thanks to the arrows that appear at the bottom of the page. These are very helpful when doing the final activities proposed by each story. Apart from the written text, it also provides the opportunity to listen the story with a click on the speaker that appears at the left bottom of the screen.
The functionality of story is supplemented by some very colourful animations, which help the understanding of history with a simple click on them. In addition, this program offers the opportunity to practice the foreign language among students, as it makes easier the interaction between them to discuss the follow-up that may have the story. The teachers have the opportunity to change the activities according to the needs of their students. These exercises are very interactive and allow playing with the vocabulary and practicing reading in English.
Thus, Tom and Laia's Tales program is dynamic and entertaining for a wide selection of primary pupils who have different needs regarding the foreign language.