Happy Street 1. Class Book

Happy Street is a two-level course for children starting English at the beginning of the school system. Together with songs, chants, games, and listening activities, Happy Street 1 offers an accessible introduction to reading and writing and is suitable for use either as the children's first contact with English or after an oral-aural introduction. The Class Book uses appealing songs, chants, and stories for language presentation, with oral and reading practice and extension activities.

Happy Street can be used after an oral/aural course such as Happy House, or as a first English course which includes reading and writing from the beginning.

• The characters from Happy House, Polly and Jack, take young learners outside the context of the house and help them to explore the neighbourhood.
• The lively songs and chants have a contemporary feel which add to pupils' enjoyment of the course.
• It introduces children to different types of reading text. Speech bubble stories give children the opportunity of acting out the text; 'Colin in Computerland' provides revision and language presentation through an exciting adventure story; and the 'Extended reading' sections include topic-based information, rhymes, and jokes.
• Writing skills are systematically built up. Level 1 focuses on writing at a word and sentence level, so that by Level 2 children can express themselves in mini- paragraphs.
• Pair work activities and games provide lots of regular speaking practice.
• The Happy Alphabet Book teaches children the Roman alphabet.