Teaches 30 American Sign Language signs. Combines signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Teaches babies to sign before they can speak. Includes sign concepts like friend, play, please, thank you, etc.

Speak, read, and write 1,000 words and phrases common in everyday situations by listening and emulating native speakers while seeing their words on screen in the original language and English.

116 Bible stories from the Old Testament and the New Testament, signed in American Sign Language. Only picture is signer (except for titling information), with no captions or voices.

Turn now to precise and powerful words for facets of trust and belief. Study words that have their roots in the church, but have expanded their reach into other areas of life. Use your knowledge of Greek roots to show the difference in the belief of an apostle (stellein) and an apostate (stenai).

In addition to the arts, cultural heritage is important in French-speaking cultures. Your first stop is the museum, and your survey helps you put together much of what you learned in the previous unit. Review the major verb tenses - present, past, composé, and imperfect - and learn how to distinguish the different types of past tense.

Step back in time and learn about words inspired by the great men, women, and places of literature and history. English is replete with a host of lively eponyms, such as bloomers, sideburns, and sandwich. Learn about the fascinating people and stories behind eight excellent eponyms.

Shift your attention from the stage to the realm of literature and cinema. Learn key words to help you navigate the bookstore and talk about novels, biographies, histories, poems, and more. Continue your study of verb tenses, which are the building blocks for telling a story.

Toss aside the rote memorization of childhood and explore the cognitive science behind the five core principles of effective vocabulary learning: definition, context, connections, morphology, and semantic chunking. Through interactive examples, see how you can improve your ability to remember the definition of a new word or a long list of familiar terms.

One of the most gifted thinkers of our time, Noam Chomsky has revolutionized our understanding of language, its use and its acquisition. Now, Language and mind brings Chomsky into your classroom, where he takes your students on a guided tour through his epoch-making ideas. The theories of Noam Chomsky propose that the human brain is endowed with an innate "language faculty" and that part of this biological endowment is a set of principles common to...

Forge a link between the tales of Greek and Roman gods and heroes and the English vocabulary words they inspired. What is the difference between a herculean task and a Sisyphean one? What Gordian knots do you have in your life? Discover the answers here.