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Talking Dice were the brainchild of language
teacher Emily Daly, who created them as a way of
teaching her students German & French. It
wasn't long before many other teachers wanted to
use them to make teaching language and literacy
skills more stimulating and fun. There is no other
language teaching resource that can be used to
teach any language, nor has the same Visual
Auditory Kinesthetic (VAK) qualities as Talking
Dice.
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The wide range of language teaching
applications quickly became apparent. Since 2000,
Talking Dice has evolved to include 25
topics, workbooks,
and tons of game
ideas - many supplied by other teachers.
Where are they used?
Talking Dice feature just pictures, so they are
not language specific. Therefore, they suit any language to teach any
target language. That's why there are
more than 3,500 schools and organisations using
Talking Dice in 28 countries around the globe. Customers include:
- Schools - nursery, primary, and secondary -
Key stage 1 to 4, AS
- Colleges and universities
- Adult education
- Education authorities
- Special needs coordinators SEN
- Speech & language therapists
- EFL, ESL, ESOL, TEFL, TESOL etc
- Teachers & students
- Home schooling
- And even dice collectors!
How are they used?
Watch
a short video demonstration
Talking Dice can be rolled on their own or in
multiples of different topics to help sentence
building, grammar use and language skills
generally. The applications for Talking Dice are
incredibly diverse, but as examples, they can be
used to teach:
- Foreign languages for all ages and ability
- English as a first language in primary
school
- Special needs
- Speech & language therapy
Each topic contains six of the same dice, so
that they can be spilt between small class groups
of say five or six. For younger children, you may
want to split them into smaller groups and buy
more than one pack of each topic.
Nominated for awards
Talking Dice was runner-up in the 2004 Business Awards for Wales -
Welsh Innovative Company of the Year, and was
nominated for the New Statesman New Media Awards 2006
for Education
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