Tricolore, Book 1, 5th Edition

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I remember my German O Level text book was titled "Sprich mal Deutsch". We used to infuriate our German teacher by translating this as "Speak bad German" (which in my case at least is what happened). Just because it is electronic doesn't make it a bad source," she says, explaining that a good e-book is much better than an out-of-date textbook. This new edition of the best-selling and trusted Tricolore 4, is a high ability course supporting all the new 2016 GCSE specifications. The course offers a blend of print and digital content, providing your students with everything they'll need to manipulate language confidently and prepare them thoroughly for their exams. Books tend to have more authoritative value because they have been peer-assessed - and a school has to invest a lot of money buying them, so there are more judgements being made." Books are real. You can look at a book all the time," he enthuses, adding, "I say, 'Respect the book'."

At secondary school we had a German one which was yellow and had writing on the front - it was very forbidding. I also remember Cassell's Latin Primer." The internet will never replace the simple joy of reading a book. Do we really want children spending their whole lives gazing at a computer screen? I just worry that by taking away books, you take away a willingness to read outside of the classroom- why bother when Google has the answer? So many of us are introduced to a lifelong interest in literature in school, after all. The internet is more of a reference guide which doesn't give a deeper picture. I'm glad we used books in school- as a visually impaired student, I would have found the intense use of e-books very difficult indeed. A high ability course supporting all the new 2016 GCSE specifications, with specific specification support on Kerboodle for AQA, Edexcel, WJEC Eduqas and OCR, as well as the Cambridge IGCSE syllabus (R) Written by the well-trusted and highly experienced Tricolore team to give you materials that really work Delivers a blend of print and digital content, providing students with everything they'll need to manipulate language confidentlyE-resources are becoming increasingly associated with textbooks," he says. "But I personally don't think they will replace books because of the flexibility a textbook offers.

But Ros Sutherland, professor of education at Bristol University, argues this doesn't necessarily mean such internet resources will end the use of textbooks altogether. But Dr Aisha Walker, senior lecturer in ICT in education at Leeds University, argues the internet can be just as reliable a resource as books. Purging books of any trace of their previous owners served to make them feel like ours, and signified reaching a landmark in an educational journey.

If you went to school in 1949, 1969 or 1989, the route to producing successful homework might be a battered encyclopedia, or a book owned by a parent, to supplement a textbook. But in 2009, Wikipedia and other internet sources have usurped the textbook for many children. I have often met adults in many different contexts who mention it - and we were surprised when it was even mentioned in a novel by Nigel Williams [They Came From SW19]," says Ms Mascie-Taylor. Like anyone who learned Latin at school since the 1960, I remember the Cambridge Latin Course. It was even honoured in Doctor Who: when the Doctor went to Pompeii he met a character named Caecillius.