On April 24, 2019, we will fully transfer the Olive Green course to the www.SuperMemo.com platform, where your learning and progress levels are already available. At SuperMemo.com, the Olive Green course is now part of a broader service that includes more than 200 SuperMemo courses, as well as free possibilities to create and share your own content together with continuously updated applications. We invite you to log in now!

What does it mean?

From April 25, you will not be able to:

• use the Olive Green course via OliveGreenTheMovie.com
• download the Olive Green app for iOS and Android
• synchronize your progress in the Olive Green app for iOS, Android or Windows-based PC with other platforms

All of these functionalities and many more will still be available and be developed on the SuperMemo.com site under your same user account.

ATTENTION! If, after April 24th, you are still using the Olive Green app for iOS or Android, after entering the course at www.SuperMemo.com, your progress will not be updated!

In order to use the course, you should do the following:

If you are using the online course at OliveGreenTheMovie.com:

1. Go to www.SuperMemo.com
2. Provide the same login and password as on OliveGreenTheMovie.com
3. Continue your learning

If you wish to continue using the course in the app:

1. Download the SuperMemo app for iOS or Android
2. Provide the same login and password as for the Olive Green app
3. Continue your learning

In the case of any questions, please contact us at support@supermemo.com.

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You can begin by watching a film scene in the multimedia course in the PLAY section. We encourage you to watch it a few times to become familiar with the native pronunciation and to make decisions during interactions. Subtitles (in your language or in English) will help you understand the dialogue. If you are only beginning to learn English, try first watching the scene once with subtitles in your language, then with English subtitles, and then without any subtitles at all. Next, try reading the text of the dialogue aloud, with the English subtitles on but with the sound turned off.

After watching each scene, go to the LEARN section, containing exercises related to that scene. First, you will find a series of true or false exercises, where your task will be to choose the correct answers based on the film scene you have just watched, which you can replay at any time. After selecting your answers, click on “Check” and evaluate yourself. Next, go to a series of vocabulary exercises, which consolidate newly-learned words and phrases. You will be asked to find an English equivalent of a given word or phrase in your language, or to fill in a gap in a sentence where that word or phrase appeared. In order to remember the word or phrase, you can replay the film scene. Then click on “Check” and compare your answer with the key. The program will not evaluate you automatically, so you will have to select one of three buttons: I don’t know, Almost, or I know. Please be honest with this evaluation, as it is going to influence the optimal time the program will choose for you to revise the material, based on your individual learning curve. In the next days, you can come back to the exercises you have completed by going to the REPEAT section. In that section, you will find revision exercises, compiled based on the SuperMemo method.

Your next step will be the grammar exercises. These exercises are grouped around topics covered in the film scenes. If you have any doubts, please refer to the grammar section, marked with a light bulb, where you will find many typical examples of use of the new structures. These examples are not translated, as they contain only the vocabulary that you have already learned. So jog your memory, and if you are stuck, you can always consult the inbuilt online dictionary.

The course also contains interactive dialogues, where you can practise different communication situations and use all the skills you need to talk to someone in English. You can talk to the characters from the film by pretending to be one of them. If your browser is Chrome, you can even speak out loud – the program will automatically convert your speech to text and you will shortly receive a witty reply. You can practise each dialogue multiple times, each time providing different replies. This way you can carry out completely different conversations and use more new words and phrases in practice. After the dialogues, you will also practise the newly-learned vocabulary in the already familiar question-answer type exercises.

Finally, you can read the cultural trivia, where you will learn about interesting aspects of English-speaking countries’ cultures. Please always try to analyse the English text yourself and understand its general meaning. Only then refer to the dictionary to find equivalents of any new words in your language.

We wish you great fun and success in your learning!

A.

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At the award gala, we rubbed shoulders with representatives of many prominent film and TV producers, such as CNN, HBO, BBC, ZDF, Deutsche Welle, France 5, Disney Channel, and Al Jazeera America. It was a pleasure to be in such distinguished company, especially with the award in hand ;-)

The competition saw several thousand applications out of which 724 finalists from 48 countries around the world were selected, with as many as 3 finalists from Poland. Besides Olive, another Gold Medal went to a documentary called The Touch of an Angel. The third Polish film, Karski, received a finalist’s certificate. Congratulations!

You can find the full list of finalists on the festival website.

M.

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The jury praised Olive Green as “an exciting art heist thriller that uses story to teach English”. “When we heard the announcement: ‘The winner is the creator of Olive Green, Poland’s SuperMemo’, we were beside ourselves with joy,” said Elżbieta Trubowicz-Gołuńska. SuperMemo World is the first winner from Poland at The London Book Fair! Our victory is historic :)

The Educational Learning Resources Award is the 11th in a streak of awards received by the Olive Green project. Made possible by the joint efforts of the whole staff of SuperMemo World and based on an original idea and script, Olive Green keeps receiving praise and recognition all over the world for its innovative and bold approach to teaching English.

M.

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Celebrating its 45 year anniversary in April 2016, The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. Like in the previous years, we will attend the fair together with 25,000 publishing professionals from 124 countries who come to London to learn, network and kick off their year of business.

“Olive Green”, our flagship product, has been nominated for the Educational Learning Resources Award by a panel of judges with relevant expertise in this category. We will be honoured to present you the nominated course-cum-film “Olive Green” at our stand. You are warmly invited to come round and meet us at stand 5D115, within the Polish Book Institute exhibition space. Feel free to set up a meeting with us by emailing us at B2B@supermemo.com.

M.

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To celebrate the honourable nomination to the New York Festivals for Olive Green, we are pleased to invite you to the film’s world premiere on YouTube. It is an exclusive, 1-day event that will start on March 18, 2016, at 14:00 CET at www.olivegreenthemovie.com/about/premiere. You will be able to watch the full 3-hour action feature film for free at the time that best suits your Friday & Saturday plans :-) Join us and see for yourself why Olive has been winning the hearts of film and education competition juries around the world!

Alicja Jankowiak

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The competition is organised by the London Book Fair together with the UK Publishers Association. The prizes are awarded in 14 categories and aim at distinguishing the best publishing initiatives and events worldwide. Past winners have ranged from publishers of academic content to multimedia, children’s books, and translations. Shortlists in each category are produced by a jury of experts in each field. The full list of this year’s nominees can be found here.

SuperMemo is competing for The Educational Learning Resources Award, funded by China Publishing & Media Journal. Our rivals are publications from Australia and Belgium, including the prestigious Cambridge University Press. Winners will be announced at the LBF International Book Industry Excellence Awards gala on 12 April 2006 – the first day of the 45th edition of the Fair.

We are going to the London Olympia to promote our product at the Fair between 12 and 14 April 2016. It is going to be an excellent chance for publishers and distributors from around the world to meet us and talk to us about buying license or distributing Olive Green to their respective markets. Do not hesitate to approach us; we are open for negotiation!

M.

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Some last-minute impressions from Dubai by Małgorzata Śmigielska, Blended Learning Manager at SuperMemo World, who took part in GESS 2016: “The GESS exhibition and awards ceremony were both very inspiring events and an opportunity to meet the best companies in the education sector. It was an honour to be there,” Małgorzata said. “Dubai as a city? Words fail me to describe it, but it is definitely worth visiting. It is a city where cultures mingle and yet everyone lives together in peace. Women are greatly respected. Views are breath-taking. It is difficult not to take many photos”.

And it is the photos that will probably give the best account on the gala and Dubai itself.

M.

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GESS (Global Educational Supplies & Solutions) is an educational fair taking place in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It provides a point of contact between providers of educational solutions and teachers and schools in the Middle East. Prizes for the creators of the best educational solutions will be awarded at a grand gala dinner on the 2nd of March. In the words of the organisers, “The awards will highlight and reward the quality and diversity of educational products, resources, services and people as well as the best educational establishments and the most dedicated members of the teaching profession. The GEA aims to encourage the raising of educational services & product standards throughout the industry and aims to be recognised throughout the sector as the accolade of excellence.”

Olive Green’s last and most important victory at the BETT Show in London has only whetted our appetites. Now we take Olive to the Middle East. Keep your fingers crossed for us on the 2nd of March!

A representative of SuperMemo, Ms Małgorzata Śmigielska, will be attending the event in Dubai. Please don’t hesitate to contact her at school@supermemo.com if you’re interested in buying a license for our product.

M.

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