Two levels: Beginner
Ages: 7 years and over
Happy Street
Stella Maidment and Lorena Roberts
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.
Sample pages:
http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/isbn/1470?cc=ar#sample_pdf
Audio clips:
http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/isbn/1470?cc=ar#sample_audio
Components
Class Book
* songs, chants and stories for language presentation
* plenty of listening, speaking and reading practice
* extension activities
Activity Book
* a wide range of listening and writing practice to reinforce vocabulary and structures
* clear, simple models for topic-based, personalized writing
* introduction to pronunciation in 'Rhyme Time'
* vocabulary extension with a 'look and find' activity
* a record of learning through 'Quizzy's Questions'
Teacher's Book
* full, clear teaching notes
* suggestions for further activities
* ideas to exploit the classroom posters
* 3 photocopiable tests
* a wide range of extra photocopiable material
Teacher's Resource Pack (Level 1 only)
* full-colour flashcards
* a Photocopy Masters Book
* posters
Posters (Level 2 only)
* colourful classroom posters to give further lexical practice
Cassette
* material for all the listening activities in the Class Book and Activity Book
* songs and chants
* listening material for the photocopiable tests in the Teacher's Book
Student's Website
* interactive practice (suitable for Cambridge Young Learners 'Starters')
* interactive games
* e-cards
* colouring calendars
Teacher's Website
* downloadable practice activities (suitable for Cambridge Young Learners 'Starters')
* downloadable 'Colin in Computerland' worksheets
* downloadable Extended Reading worksheets
* useful links
ISBN index
Happy Street 1
Class Book 978-0-19-433833-2
Activity Book 978-0-19-433834-9
Teacher's Book 978-0-19-433835-6
Teacher's Resource Pack (Poster, Flashcards, Photocopy Masters Book) 978-0-19-433837-0
Cassettes (2) 978-0-19-433836-3
CDs (2) 978-0-19-431767-2
Happy Street 2
Class Book 978-0-19-433841-7
Activity Book 978-0-19-433842-4
Teacher's Book 978-0-19-433843-1
Posters 978-0-19-433845-5
Cassettes (2) 978-0-19-433844-8
CDs (2) 978-0-19-431768-9
Teacher's Website:
http://www.oup.com/elt/teacher/happystreet/
* downloadable practice activities (suitable for Cambridge Young Learners 'Starters')
* downloadable 'Colin in Computerland' worksheets
* downloadable Extended Reading worksheets
* useful links