Main Good Features of “Hip Hip Hooray”

1. Main Good Features of “Hip Hip Hooray” Presenter: 崔莺 Group members: 王学涛 李小翠 吴素娟 崔莺

2. 1 3 2 Achieving Impact Main Features of the 3H. Developing Confidence Providing Authentic Language

3. Achieving Impact Layout Content Novelty Variety Topics interest, stories, themes, etc. Unusual topics, activities, illustrations, etc. Attractive colours, pictures, photographs, etc. Different texts tasks, activities etc.

4. Attractive: colors, pictures, photographs, etc. Layout Attractive Layout

5. Strong visual effect to learners and give them the signals to do the different tasks. Special Special layout

6. Achieving Impact Layout Content Novelty Variety Unusual topics, activities, illustrations, etc. Attractive colours, pictures, photographs, etc. Topics interest, stories, themes, etc. Different texts tasks, activities etc.

7. elements Engaging Stories The materials have 7 levels, each level is perfectly matched in storyline and language level to learners. (ex.2,3) Those classic stories provide learners’ with a topical thread and model for enhancing their language skills.

8. Tips: • 1. According to the young learners’ psychology, they are curious about all funny things, story telling is one of the good methods to arouse their interest and motivate them to study English enjoyably. • 2. Every story teaches learners the language points as well as builds up standard morality such as “Generosity，Kindness, Braveness, Wittiness etc.” from some characters, which is good for young learners’ character-building.

9. Achieving Impact Layout Content Novelty Variety Unusual topics, activities, illustrations, etc. Attractive colours, pictures, photographs, etc. Topics interest, stories, themes, etc. Different texts tasks, activities etc.

10. Welcome Contents 8 Units and 4 Review Picture Dictionary Word List Little Book The Contents of Level 2 • 7 Sections Classroom English Variety and Novelty

11. Listen and Choose Story Time Unit Sing The Headings of Variety and Novelty HaveFun Talk and Practice Learn and Practice

12. Headings Novelty The contents under the same headings are showed in different topics and illustrations to learners. Variety Under the same headings, there are many different activities and tasks.

13. Talk Parts ( topics and illustration)

14. Have Fun ( activities and tasks)

15. 1 3 2 Achieving Impact Main Features of the 3H. Developing Confidence Providing Authentic Language

16. Tomlinson(1998) • The activities should engage learners in tasks which are stimulating, problematic and achievable and try to push learners slightly beyond their existing knowledge. • The activities should be imaginative, creative and analytical and encourage learners to use and to develop their existing extra-linguistic knowledge. • The elementary level learner can often gain great confidence from making up a story, writing a short poem or making a grammatical discovery than she can from getting right a simple drill.

17. Fun Games

18. 1 3 2 Achieving Impact Main Features of the 3H. Developing Confidence Providing Authentic Language

19. Providing Authentic Language Exposing learners to language in the authentic use will help them to acquire English naturally, and improve their comprehensive ability.

20. No Assurance:The SLA theory and Teaching methodology. No Persuasion:No in-use and post-use analysis. No Feedbacks: Young learners and Teachers. Limitations of the Analysis Please forgive our prejudgment !

21. References • Tomlinson, Brain (1998). Materials development in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press. • Cheng Xiaotang (2002). Course Description and Requirements. Foreign Language and Research Press

22. Thanks For Your Attention Group members: 王学涛 李小翠吴素娟 崔莺 吴素娟 崔莺