Hooray! Let'S Play! A Activities & Projects

Description:
Winner at HRH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK AWARDS 2013 Excellence for Course Innovation

Hooray! Let's play! is the brand new 3-level course for 3 to 5-year-olds by world-renowned author team Herbert Puchta and Günter Gerngross. This exciting and innovative course helps you maximise your English lessons with very young learners and offers your pupils lots of fun and highly-stimulating activities.
Hooray! Let's play! has a unique multisensory approach that develops young children’s core thinking skills and offers motivating value-based stories to promote essential social skills.
All components available in British and American English.

Hooray! Let's play!
Promotes multi-sensory learning through a variety of motivating games, stories, action stories and songs
Is fun and easy to teach allowing children to learn in a natural and memorable way
Offers a unique combination of materials - books, DVDs, Audio CDs, DVD-ROMS, story cards, flashcards and a hand puppet to suit every classroom need
Introduces 4 delightful characters – Peter the Panda, Rosie the Rabbit, Connie the Crocodile and Tom the Turtle – who quickly befriend the children and create a positive, warm learning environment.

For the Student:
Hooray! Let's play!
• promotes multi-sensory learning through a variety of motivating games, stories, action stories and songs;
• is fun and easy to teach allowing children to learn in a natural and memorable way;
• offers a unique combination of materials - books, DVDs, Audio CDs, DVD-ROMS, story cards, flashcards and a hand puppet to suit every classroom need;
• introduces 4 delightful characters – Peter the Panda, Rosie the Rabbit, Connie the Crocodile and Tom the Turtle – who quickly befriend the children and create a positive, warm learning environment.

Student's Book
The full colour Student’s Book is organised in 6 main units. Each of the units is presented on 6 pull-out worksheets and follows a tightly structured pattern to guarantee optimal and consistent learning routines:
• chant
• TPR (Total Physical Response) action story
• song
• story / story song
• listening comprehension
• thinking skills

All worksheets expand and develop both pupils’ cognitive and fine motor skills through activities such as colouring, tracing, drawing, matching, sorting, etc.
There are also sections on festivals and celebrations (birthdays and other special occasions), plus an Audio CD with full versions of the songs and chants.

All tasks are outlined on the back of each worksheet along with any relevant song lyrics and scripts for seamless lesson management and to keep parents up to date with what their children are learning.

Activities & Projects
Two new and exciting Activities & Projects books to accompany Student’s Book A and B which expand and enrich pupils’ practice in class.
Each unit includes activity pages which review and reinforce language learned from the Student’s Book plus creative and CLIL based projects to carry out in teams.
A Sticker Appendix at the end of the books contains stickers to use in a variety of activities.
All activity and project pages have teacher’s notes at the back.

PLUS one Activities & Projects Guide with Class Audio CD per level.

NEW!
Hooray! Let’s Play! Maths & Science Activity Books
The Math activities introduce the child to numbers, shapes and partial relations. The Science activities help the child explore his/her surroundings and develop logical thinking.
Teacher's Guide available

Hooray! Let’s Play! Fine Motor Skills and Phonological Awareness Activity Books
The activities in the Fine Motor Skills and Phonological Awareness Activity Books help the child to discover lines and letters and link letters to sounds in order to decode words promoting a natural approach to reading development.
Teacher's Guide available