Howdy!
Theresa Zanatta
Howdy! is a course for children starting English in a primary school. It's graded, hands-on proposal takes students from a true-beginner to an elementary level. Its balanced literacy programme exposes children to language before they actually produce through flexible tasks related to the outside world.
- Levels: 3 levels
- Ages: 8 to 11
- Components:
- Course Book with integrated activities + Language Choice + Audio CD (Level Starter)
- Course Book with integrated activities + Reading & Writing Choice + Audio CD (Levels 1 & 2)
- Teacher's Handbook + Class CD + Annual Planning
Key features:
- Engaging and purposeful activities provide students with basic competence in listening and reading comprehension. It also gives them tools to achieve speaking literacy and a personalised writing process, while promoting effective communication.
- The syllabus is developed around motivating topics related to the children's world and the course offers students the opportunity to take an active role in the learning process.
- Cross-curricular links have been taken into consideration both in the course book and the Reading and Writing/Language Choice booklets, featuring games and activities for the consolidation of structures and vocabulary.
- Further practice through plenty of songs, poems and stories are provided in the Audio CD.
- The Teacher's Handbook contains an easy-to-follow guide for each unit, including objectives, target language, assessment and follow-up activities, a games bank and useful tips and ideas for teaching the four skills.
- Photocopiable Extra-practice and I Can do it! worksheets and tests for each unit are also provided.
- Annual Planning, which offers unit contents and objectives, and a Class Organiser with suggested teaching sequences and extra activities complete the full range of teaching resources for the series.
