A complete range of BBC and ITV television and radio programmes is available on loan from theAudio-Visual Unit at SELB Library Headquarters to all teachers. For Modern Language teachers the Audio Visual Recording Service records news bulletins in five languages. The bulletins are suitable for classroom study and may be used to demonstrate aspects of the language in a spoken context. The AVRS will start recording each language from early September through to May and each 5 weeks from early October will send a video cassette with 5 programmes on it to the individual school. The school will use the tapes and return them all in June at the latest.

While this is a loan service schools may purchase instead of borrowing tapes

Please note AVRS will not supply a transcript of the broadcasts.

The AVRS has been recording TG4 Nuacht on Mondays.

The video recordings match worksheets in Irish which can be found at www.may.ie/language
(on the Home Page click on Vif@x)

The AVRS will dispatch 7 tapes per school - approximately once a month during the school year- the recordings dispatched will include 3 Mondays and 2 other days. All Monday broadcasts will be retained during term time.

The AVRS records French TV5, German ZDF, Spanish TVE and Italian RAI Uno. These recordings are available on the same basis as TG4.

If a teacher would like to buy an individual video tape they should contact the AVU.(avrs.selb@ni.libraries.net)

Audio-Visual Recording Services
SELB Library Headquarters
1 Markethill Road
ARMAGH BT60 1NR
Tel. 028 3752 0710-0713/ Fax. 028 3752 6879