About this user
Taught By Song Ltd is a new and energetic company, based in Oxfordshire and dedicated to providing high quality resources for foreign language teaching, using the powerful medium of song. Our resources are the original, bespoke product of a tight creative team of specialists, who are still working at the frontline of education and are therefore right in touch with the needs of both teachers and learners.
Monica Hyde has taught French at both KS1 and KS2 for over 12 years and she is still actively teaching French at primary level. Building on her first-hand experience of how children learn a foreign language in the classroom setting, she has written songs which have an engaging, often funny storyline as well as incorporating plenty of repetition and progressive vocabulary substitution. With her experience of how to make French fun for young learners, she has created a progressive scheme of activities for the interactive whiteboard, which are a blend of her own ideas and best practice vocabulary games.
John Hyde is an established composer, with more than twenty years experience of writing for film and television, with a particular track record in children's TV. John has an enviable talent for composing memorable melodies in a variety of styles that appeal to all ages of children and adults alike! He also brings his professional recording expertise to the production of high quality music.
Capital Multimedia have created and animated the graphics, drawing an engaging and vivacious gang of characters and animals ! They bring to the excellent drawing and animation their own particular brand of charm and wit, together with linguistic accuracy to the lip synchronisation of the singing characters.
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The songs are mint!... I think it's really cool, easy to use and really clever and easy to learn the French that way.. I like the way that the people from France actually sing the songs.. I've never seen anything like it in school.. I thought it was really good how they made the mouths look like they were really saying it.. I think the games and stuff are great to learn the words from the songs.. I think that it's really fun and everything that has been done to make it - I would like to say a really big thank you!... We always enjoy watching again and again to watch out for things in the background. We spot things each time and it is always fun- simple as that !
Teacher Amy Bell's pupils from St. Margaret`s Primary School, Crossgate Peth, Durham
My students LOVE the songs and they've learned a good deal of French with them. Upon my return to Anguilla, I immediately played the audio CD for them..bodies started swaying, toes were tapping, fingers snapping. One boy got up out of his chair and danced around the room !
Mimi Connor, French teacher, Anguilla, British West Indies
ZZZ is a fun and easy way to learn French at home and school. I love it !
From Oxfordshire parent Sally Fitchett
Zim Zam Zoum is brilliant! It makes people enjoy learning French. The singing is the best bit.
.... and her son, William, aged 6,
ZIM ZAM ZOUM is excellent, very successful. The children love it as it is so interactive...It also allows you to go at your own pace, suited to age group and ability, as you can pick and choose bits that are suitable.
Teacher, Monkton Park Primary School Chippenham
You have no idea how popular the ZZZ songs are. the children LOVE it and the music itself is so catchy and tuneful too. They readily absorb the grammar points of gender agreement etc and sing like pros right from the start...! Many thanks for raising the enthusiasm in my classroom! They work like Trojans to get time at the end of each lesson to sing! My only real issue is how to let them down gently in the lessons when we AREN'T going to put ZZZ on.
Sally Rowden, Leading Language Teacher, Essex
I am going to go and live in France. I love the Zim Zam Zoum songs - they're so much fun - they go round in my head and it's really helping me learn French.
Charlie Roantree -Aged 6
ZIM ZAM ZOUM gives the children enthusiasm for the language, helps them to feel they are achieving and leaves them singing the songs for days!
French teacher, The Dragon School, Oxford
