Family and Friends

Key features
One third of each unit is dedicated to skills training. The step-by-step approach focuses on writing and early literacy skills to build children's confidence in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding English.
One in six lessons is a phonics lesson to train children to recognize and produce English sounds. At levels 1-3 the lessons are supported by flashcards, and by more activities on the Student MultiROM.
The civic education syllabus educates children in good values and behaviour. The Photocopy Masters Books at levels 1-2 include 15 values worksheets.
The Testing and Evaluation Book and the test builder element of the Teacher's Resource CD-ROM help teachers to evaluate children's progress.
One lesson per page with clear lesson objectives makes the course easy to teach.
Accompanying resources, including the Grammar Friends series, skills series, Teacher's Resource Pack, course readers, and Teacher Resource CD-ROM allow teachers to focus on additional skills training and means the course can fit different teaching programmes per week

Characters
Extended family
Cousin Tim
Rosy
Two-year-old Billy

Unit walk through
Lesson 1 Words
Lesson 2 Grammar
Lesson 3 Song
Lesson 4 Phonics
Review
Review
Lesson 5 Reading
Lesson 6
Listening, speaking, writing

Lesson 1: Words and Story
The children listen and point to the pictures.
They listen again and repeat the words.
This is reinforced with flashcards activities
The children practise the words with a rhythmic chant
The children listen to the story and point to the pictures, using the Story poster. They find key words in the story

Lesson 2: Grammar
The children listen to the story again and now produce the language by repeating and then acting out the story
The children study the grammar structure that was presented in the story
The children practise writing the grammar structure
The children practise the unit’s words along with the grammar structure in a speaking activity

Lesson 3: Words and Song
The children listen and point to the pictures.
They listen again and repeat the words.
This is reinforced with flashcards activities
The children learn and sing the song
The children perform actions as they sing the song
The children can colour in the new words in the Picture dictionary in the Workbook

Lesson 4: Phonics
The children listen to the sound and point to the letters that form it. They read and repeat words that contain the sound and letters, with the help of phonics cards
The children see these words in sentences and learn a chant. The chant provides targeted proniunciation practice within an engaging context
The children look at the chant again and identify the letters that create the phonics sounds
The children choose the correct letters for certain words

Lesson 5: Skills Time! Reading
The children look at the reading text and illustrations. They identify key words and features in the text as preparation for reading
The children read and listen to the text for the first time
The children read the text again, this time looking for details that will enable them to complete the comprehension activity

Lesson 6: Skills Time! Listening, speaking, writing
The children listen to a recording and complete a listening comprehension activity
The children practise speaking in pairs , using a context that is similar to the reading and listening activities
The children do exercises to develop their writing skills. They will learn how to structure their writing into sentences with correct punctuation and word order.

Teacher’s book
Scope and sequence
Introduction (methodology, values, testing and evaluation, components desription)
Tour of a unit
Classroom language
Flashcards and games
Teaching notes
Review pages answer key
WB answer key
MultiRom Listen at home section list
Photocopy Masters Book notes
Wordlist