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An award-winning course to maximise your English lessons with very young learners.
The Hooray! Let’s play! multi-sensory approach develops young children’s core skills and promotes learning through play.
Children are encouraged to use all their senses to understand and reproduce new language, aiding learning and retention. At the same time, a wide range of activities that help the learning process - motivating games, stories, action stories and songs - stimulate interest and ensure enjoyment. The use of music, movement and rhymes helps to develop memory in a fun way.
The course focuses on building intelligence with the inclusion of a number of activities designed to develop key cognitive skills, such as focussing attention, recognising similarities and differences and identifying and continuing sequences.
Materials that develop and encourage an open and inclusive attitude to other people and cultures and to underline and encourage key social values such as the value of friendship and caring for animals.
Care is taken to ensure that children experience the act of language learning as a positive one right from the beginning and are enthusiastic and motivated by the activities they are required to do. Peter, Rosie, Connie and Tom quickly befriend children and create a positive, warm learning environment.
Hooray! Let’s Play! is fun and easy to teach allowing children to learn in a natural and memorable way. Teachers are provided with teaching notes, videos, games and activities for original and up-to-date lessons in the kindergarten classroom.
British English and American English editions available.
British English and American English editions available.
For Science & Math Activity Book and Fine Motor Skills & Phonological Awareness Activity Book (A and B levels):
Browse our brochure to find out more about the course, all its features, and get step-by-step suggestions on how to teach very young learners and tips on how to use the Activity Books.
Engage and motivate young learners with easy-to-use digital resources which integrate all the course material and provide practical teaching tips.
The Interactive Book for Whiteboards integrates all materials from the course within one easy-to-use DVD-ROM, allowing teachers to access resources quickly and easily. Lessons can be projected onto a whiteboard where the class can work together to carry out the activities.
The Teacher Training Video demonstrates a variety of ways of teaching English to very young learners. It shows author, Herbert Puchta, working with groups of very young learners in different schools. Additional short excerpts explain how to use the TPR (Total Physical Response) action stories and songs through miming and acting.
Fully animated cartoon stories engage and motivate children. Story cards, Audio CDs and Worksheets support and build on the cartoons to create a powerful learning experience. (A and B levels)
Hooray! Let’s Play! develops children’s social, emotional and spatial skills by encouraging them to work together, play, resolve problems and reproduce actions and key language. Children are also encouraged to see language as a means of communication, and basic listening and speaking skills are developed slowly and accurately right from the beginning of the course.