Happy Street is a two-level course for children starting English at the beginning of the school system. Together with songs, chants, games, and listening activities, Happy Street 1 offers an accessible introduction to reading and writing and is suitable for use either as the children's first contact with English or after an oral-aural introduction. Happy Street Components: • The Class Book uses appealing songs, chants, and stories for language presentation, with oral and reading practice and extension activities. The Colin in Computerland adventure stories provide stimulating opportunities for language revision and functional language presentation, and children encounter a rich variety of material in the Extended Reading sections. • The Activity Book offers a wide range of aural and written practice activities consolidating vocabulary and structures taught in the Class Book, and provides clear models for personalization. Rhyme Time recycles vocabulary to give a memorable pronunciation focus, and children keep a record of their learning as they answer Quizzy's Questions. • The Cassettes contain all the songs, chants, stories, and listening activities from the Class Book and Activity Book, and listening material for the photocopiable tests in the Teachers Book. • The Teachers Book provides full, clear teaching notes with suggestions for further activities, and 3 photocopiable tests. • The Teachers Resource Pack contains a poster for use in the classroom, 64 colour flashcards, and extra photocopiable activities.
Happy Street can be used after an oral/aural course such as Happy House, or as a first English course which includes reading and writing from the beginning. The characters from Happy House, Polly and Jack, take young learners outside the context of the house and help them to explore the neighbourhood. The lively songs and chants have a contemporary feel which add to pupils' enjoyment of the course. It introduces children to different types of reading text. Speech bubble stories give children the opportunity of acting out the text; 'Colin in Computerland' provides revision and language presentation through an exciting adventure story; and the 'Extended reading' sections include topic-based information, rhymes, and jokes. Writing skills are systematically built up. Level 1 focuses on writing at a word and sentence level, so that by Level 2 children can express themselves in mini- paragraphs. Pair work activities and games provide lots of regular speaking practice. The Happy Alphabet Book teaches children the Roman alphabet.
Happy Street can be used after an oral/aural course such as Happy House, or as a first English course which includes reading and writing from the beginning. The characters from Happy House, Polly and Jack, take young learners outside the context of the house and help them to explore the neighbourhood. The lively songs and chants have a contemporary feel which add to pupils' enjoyment of the course. It introduces children to different types of reading text. Speech bubble stories give children the opportunity of acting out the text; 'Colin in Computerland' provides revision and language presentation through an exciting adventure story; and the 'Extended reading' sections include topic-based information, rhymes, and jokes. Writing skills are systematically built up. Level 1 focuses on writing at a word and sentence level, so that by Level 2 children can express themselves in mini- paragraphs. Pair work activities and games provide lots of regular speaking practice. The Happy Alphabet Book teaches children the Roman alphabet.
A first English course for children who are ready for reading and writing. Key features Happy Street can be used after an oral/aural course such as Happy House, or as a first English course which includes reading and writing from the beginning. The characters from Happy House, Polly and Jack, take young learners outside the context of the house and help them to explore the neighbourhood. The lively songs and chants have a contemporary feel which add to pupils' enjoyment of the course. It introduces children to different types of reading text. Speech bubble stories give children the opportunity of acting out the text; 'Colin in Computerland' provides revision and language presentation through an exciting adventure story; and the 'Extended reading' sections include topic-based information, rhymes, and jokes. Writing skills are systematically built up. Level 1 focuses on writing at a word and sentence level, so that by Level 2 children can express themselves in mini- paragraphs. Pair work activities and games provide lots of regular speaking practice. The Happy Alphabet Book teaches children the Roman alphabet.
A first English course for children who are ready for reading and writing. Key features Happy Street can be used after an oral/aural course such as Happy House, or as a first English course which includes reading and writing from the beginning. The characters from Happy House, Polly and Jack, take young learners outside the context of the house and help them to explore the neighbourhood. The lively songs and chants have a contemporary feel which add to pupils' enjoyment of the course. It introduces children to different types of reading text. Speech bubble stories give children the opportunity of acting out the text; 'Colin in Computerland' provides revision and language presentation through an exciting adventure story; and the 'Extended reading' sections include topic-based information, rhymes, and jokes. Writing skills are systematically built up. Level 1 focuses on writing at a word and sentence level, so that by Level 2 children can express themselves in mini- paragraphs. Pair work activities and games provide lots of regular speaking practice. The Happy Alphabet Book teaches children the Roman alphabet.
