Follow Me! is a series of
television programmes produced by
Bayerischer Rundfunk and the
BBC in the late 1970s to provide a crash
course in the
English language. It became popular in many overseas countries as a first introduction to English; in 1983, five hundred million people watched the show in China alone, featuring
Kathy Flower.[1][2]
Follow Me! was also shown regularly on
SBS Television in Australia between 1981[3] and 1985[4] in tandem with another English tuition program, People You Meet.
The British actor
Francis Matthews hosted and narrated the series.
The course consists of sixty lessons. Each lesson lasts from 12 to 15 minutes and covers a specific
lexis. The lessons follow a consistent group of actors, with the relationships between their characters developing during the course.
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