Happy Hearts

Happy Hearts is a three-level course for three to six year old children. The course develops the listening, speaking and pre-writing / pre-reading skills of young learners through art, music and movement. It provides a simple but steady development of new language through a carefully graded syllabus and features engaging characters including Billy, Molly and Kenny the cat, that will appeal to all children of pre-school age. Key Features appealing, well-designed, child-centred materials to engage children´s imagination and stimulate learning Kenny the cat puppet to interact with and instruct children "Kenny´s basket&poster, an interactive poster to introduce the new languages colourful picture flashcards to present and review the focus language posters to introduce the characters

Happy Hearts is a three-level course for three to six year old children. The course develops the listening, speaking and pre-writing / pre-reading skills of young learners through art, music and movement. It provides a simple but steady development of new language through a carefully graded syllabus and features engaging characters including Billy, Molly and Kenny the cat, that will appeal to all children of pre-school age. Key Features appealing, well-designed, child-centred materials to engage children´s imagination and stimulate learning Kenny the cat puppet to interact with and instruct children "Kenny´s basket&poster, an interactive poster to introduce the new languages colourful picture flashcards to present and review the focus language posters to introduce the characters

The Story Cards have enlarged version of the pictures from the stories in the Pupil´s Book. They can be used by teachers to present and practise the stories. The story text (as well as guidelines for telling the story) are written on the back of each card enabling teachers to narrate the story without having to memorise it.

The Songs CD contains the songs from all the units. It is for children to take home so they can listen to their favourite songs.

Interactive whiteboard software has been designed with the needs of the pre-school learners in mind. this user-friendly software incorporates all the elements of the course (pupil´s book, audio CD, DVD, posters, etc) in an engaging and entertaining way!

Interactive whiteboard software has been designed with the needs of the pre-school learners in mind. this user-friendly software incorporates all the elements of the course (pupil´s book, audio CD, DVD, posters, etc) in an engaging and entertaining way!

The DVD brings the characters of the course to life. Children will have fun watching their favourite characters in action!

The activity book consolidates the language of each unit. The activities can be covered either upon completion of the corresponding unit, or gradually, after Lesson 5.

The Picture Flashcards include the vocabulary of each unit are numbered for easy identification. Picture flashcards are ideal for visual learners, but they can also be used in a variety of ways to appeal to kinaesthetic learners. The Picture Flashcards can be used to present, practise and recycle vocabulary. They can also be used to occupy early-finishers who have become familiar with the activities used in class. In such instances, they can be given to early-finishers to use in small groups.

The Teacher´s Resource CD-ROM provides teachers with a variety of extra materials. These materials can be used to make extra worksheets, picture dictionaries, templates for extra craftwork activities, etc.

The Teacher´s Book contains ste-by-step lesson plans, the focused language (children´s language) and the receptive language (classroom language). Each lesson plan contains detailed suggestions for presenting the new language, group and individual practice and games, and tapescripts of the songs and stories.