Starship English 4 Student Book+cd

Description:
Starship English is an exciting, comprehensive English course for young learners that’s easy to teach. Learners use various strategies to express themselves in different ways rather than memorizing set phrases. Starship English focuses independent and integrated use of the four skills: reading, listening, writing, and speaking.

Starship English is a new and innovative, seven-level language program for primary and elementary school children learning American and international English as a second language. Grounded in a Notional-Functional syllabus with the Communicative Method, the program encourages learners to use various strategies to express themselves in different ways rather than memorizing set phrases.

Starship English focuses independent and integrated use of the four skills: reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Skills are developed separately and integrated in a variety of activities in both the student book and the activity book. Reading and writing are taught from the beginning, at a simple level appropriate to the developmental stage of the learners.

Each level of the program, organized around a theme, provides communicative methodology in a stimulating, student-centered approach:
•At Home at Level 1
•The School at Level 2
•The Neighborhood at Level 3
•The City at Level 4
•The Country at Level 5
•The World at level 6

Starship English makes learning enjoyable. The program uses a careful balance of current best practices in teaching with well-known and well-understood principles of language learning.

The teaching is based on the communicative approach. The language is functional, enabling students to use the language appropriately. Students focus on the four skills of reading, listening, writing, and speaking, both independently and in combination. The language is carefully and progressively introduced, in keeping with current research findings on how children learn English as a second language. Language taught in one lesson is reinforced in subsequent units and levels. Grammar and vocabulary are taught methodically, but without the introduction of the grammatical terms that often confuse young learners.