Analysis of objectives and
the content of textbooks
for very young learners.
1. Hippo and
Friends
2. Small Talk
3. Super Me
Hippo and Friends
By Claire Selby with Lesley McKnight, published by
Cambridge University Press in 2006.
(Complete Beginner- Hippo and Friends is a three-level
pre-school course for 3-5 year-olds.)
The aims (objectives) of this textbook are:
• To teach English in a way that is fun and enjoyable
• To make age-relevant vocabulary easy to learn and to
remember
• To provide materials which integrate English to the
pre-school curriculum
Methodology
• At this age,
children generally
enjoy singing songs.
They memorize the
words throught
songs. Children also
love stories. A story
provides a context
to help children
understand the
application of new
words.
•There are also games which help memorize new words.
• This textbook includes easy-to-use materials: Audio CDs,
Photocopiable extras, Flashcard and Story posters
Unit structure
Sing and learn. In this lesson teacher presents the main
vocabulary, hear and sing the song and reinforce the vocabulary
with the sticker worksheet.
Listen and learn. In this lesson teacher presents the story, using
the story poster.
Do and learn. This lesson revises the song and the story with
activities.
Say and learn. Here a section called Talk time specifically
encourages children to give one word responses to questions or
to complete a phrase.
Moving on. Last lesson draws together the song and story
elements. The children sing the song again and make a
storybook to take home.
Contents:
Starter unit: I can say hello!
Unit
Unit
Unit
Unit
Unit
Unit
Unit
Unit
Unit
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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Ten pencils
A face
Our little house
Family
The weather
Spring colours
Wild animals
Bananas!
The sea is blue
Extra units : Halloween, Christmas, Easter
Vocabulary
• Vocabulary is very
simple, in each unit
there are 4 or 5 new
words.
• E.g: Hello, goodbye,
hippo, monkey, dog, cat
• At the end of each unit
is a revision of
vocabulary that children
have learned.
Small Talk
By Myriam Monterrubio
and
Marcela Salido.
Published by Marcmillian
press in 1994.
• This course has 3 preschool levels. This
textbook is second level
for 4-5 years old
children.
Objectives
•
Learning process should follow a child´s natural
developement
• To consolidate learning, present new vocabulary
• Themes and activities are focused on the world
aroun the child.
• Emphasized are oral and comprehension aspect of
the language
This course involves this three cognitives areas:
1. Listening
2. Visual
3. Kinesthetic
Methodology
• This textbook uses
situational
methodology.
• The authors says:
´´Child is not an adult
in developement but a
well-formed
individual, with his
own personality and
individual character.´´
Whole course is divided into three levels:
• Kinder 1, Kinder 2, and pre-primary
level. The book contains casettes
where is vocabulary, songs, rhymes,
dialogues between the protagonists
The book structure
Book is divided into units by each theme:
1. Greetings
2. Beautiful colours
3. Shapes
4. Big and little
5. My Body
6. Where´s my Bunny?
7. My Street
8. Left and Right
9. The Candy Store
10. Toys, Toys, Toys
11. The Weather
12. In the Park
13. In the Garden
14. Granpa´s Farm
15. Final Review
Vocabulary:
• Vocabulary is easy-to-learn and simple.
E.g: colours: orange, green, pink
shapes: circle, triangel, square
Super me 2
By Lucia Tomas and Vicky Gil, Oxford
University Press in 1998. This course is
a two-year English course for 5 to 7
years olds in kindergarten.
Aims
• to make English enjoyable not only for
the children but also for teachers.
Methodology
• The course consist
of essential and
optional components:
• Essential: Class
Book, Fun Book,
Cassette, Teacher´s
resource pack
(Teachers Book,
Story Book)
• Optional: flashcards
The book structure
• The Class Book and Fun Book are each
divided into nine units , including
Christmas and Easter unit which is very
interesting for the children. Because
they love to sing christmas carols. Learn
how they call in English snowflake, angel,
christmas tree, egg, rabbit and so on...
• Each unite focuse on particular theme.
Topics are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Lucy´s birthday
Lucy´s tree house
At the shopping centre
At the adventure park
At the Zoo
In town
On holiday
Christmas
Easter
The Class Book:
It contains all the basic presentation material
for the course.The class book activities are
largely listening activities (chants songs
dialogues and role-plays)
• Point activities (find and count named
objects, color and complete according to
instructions).
• There is not presented any words on the class
book pages. Each activity is signprinted with
an icon to indicate the nature of the activity.
The pages are color-full.
The Fun Book:
• Its similar to the work
book.
• The children work there
on theire own: drawing,
writing numbers,
colouring, there is also
cutting and pasting
activities and variety of
puzzles and games and
the lyrics for extra
songs
Vocabulary
• Vocabulary is simple,
and easy to remeber.
There is about 20new
words (numbers from
1-20, colors,food) in
each unit + same new
phrases like :What´s
this? Please give me
a... I like...
Conclusion
• All these three textbooks are very
colourful, what chatches children´s
attention. Include many activities which
involve they kinesthetic skills.
Interesting stories and songs develope
their imagination and language skills.
Thank you for your
attention!