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Hip, Hip, Hooray!
The new course for 3–6-year-olds
Multi-sensory, holistic, learning through play
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Course description | Sample units | Overview of components
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Starting to learn a foreign language at an early age offers lots of advantages for children.
Hip, hip, hooray! provides lots of games, stories, action-stories and songs that all help the young child to learn language in a multi-sensory way.
Hip, hip, hooray! is easy to teach. It offers a set of highly motivating materials. With the help of videos, CDs, story cards and picture cards, children learn English in a fun and natural way.
Four animals – Peter the Panda, Connie the Crocodile, Rosie the Rabbit and Tom the Turtle – help you make the first English lessons an unforgettable and delightful experience for young children.
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Materials for the Teachers
Teacher’s Book
The Teacher’s Book offers clear and easy-to-follow step-by-step suggestions on how to teach very young learners successfully.
It also gives you music-sheets for the songs, plenty of ideas for games, pronunciation tips and lots more.
The Teacher Training Video gives you examples of how to teach English to very young learners – in Kindergarten or at private language schools.
The introduction to the Teacher’s Book gives information about the structure and the concept of Hip, Hip, Hooray! |
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It’s written clearly and concisely, providing a short overview of relevant findings from cognitive psychology and research into the acquisition of language.
The Teacher’s Book was written in close cooperation with classroom teachers who have years of experience in teaching English to very young children.
It offers:
- a short overview of each teaching sequence
- pronunciation tips
- clear icons for quick reference
- step-by-step suggestions on how to use the materials in class
- lots of practical ideas
- numerous photocopiable worksheets, suggestions on how to make glove puppets(for the four animal characters), ideas for making things, games …
 Extract from Teacher's Book Unit 1 Hello (pdf)
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Teacher Training Video
The video shows how Herbert Puchta, one of the two authors of Hip, Hip, Hooray!, teaches English to a number of different groups of very young learners.
The Training Video serves as an ideal companion to the Teacher’s Book. It offers practical tips and examples of best practice of teaching English to very young learners in action!
The Training Video is accompanied by a booklet with comments on eight teaching and learning sequences taught in three different groups of very young learners.
 Extract from Training Video (realplayer)
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STORIES VIDEO
Amusing and attractively animated video stories – starring Peter the Panda, Connie the Crocodile, Rosie the Rabbit and Tom the Turtle – help children to understand language in meaningful contexts from the very beginning. The stories are highly motivating and very enjoyable. They are fun, and at the same time they are highly educational.
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The surprising twists in the stories, the beautiful animation and the attractive sound-effects guarantee that children will want to watch the stories over and over again – the best training for more formal listening comprehension and for developing strategies to understand spoken language in meaningful contexts.
Extract from Stories Video, Unit 1 Hello (realplayer)
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AUDIO CD
All the songs in Hip, Hip, Hooray! are action songs. The tunes are easy to sing along with, catchy and highly memorable. Children get activated through the songs in a series of fun ways: they listen to the songs and point at pictures, they join in making meaningful movements that help them to remember the lyrics, and gradually they begin to hum and sing along. |
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They will soon memorise the words of an entire song.
Action stories – based on the principle of Total Physical Response – help the children to understand English easily. They learn how to do things in English from the very beginning! The Audio CD and the Stories Video offer highly attractive native-speaker input – children love imitating them, and thus acquire good pronunciation. Attractive sound effects increase the children’s motivation to imitate what they hear.
 Hello-Song, (mp3)
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STORY CARDS
Big story cards show the key scenes from the video films. The Teacher’s Book offers practical suggestions on how the story cards can be used to get children to memorise the stories in highly enjoyable ways, and also how the teacher can lead the class in acting out the stories. The reverse side of each story card specifies the language relevant to the particular scene from the story.
Story Cards, Unit 1 Hello (pdf)
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PICTURE CARDS
Big story cards show the key scenes from the video films. The Teacher’s Book offers practical suggestions on how the story cards can be used to get children to memorise the stories in highly enjoyable ways, and also how the teacher can lead the class in acting out the stories. The reverse side of each story card specifies the language relevant to the particular scene from the story.
Sample for angry, happy, sad, sleepy (pdf)
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BLU-TACK
This can be used to fix the Picture Cards and
Story Cards onto the board or the classroom walls. |
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Materials for the CHILDREN
ACTIVITY FILES
The twelve Activity Files form the core of the children’s learning process. They use these files in highly enjoyable ways – while they listen to a song, they point at pictures depicting its lyrics; they stick in pictures and parts of pictures; they colour in drawings, and visually reconstruct the story-lines of the video sequences with the help of puzzle pieces.
The activities have been carefully designed in such a way that they help to foster the child’s language growth in a fun way. At the same time, they significantly influence the child’s cognitive development. Based on Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences, they develop of a range of thinking skills that go beyond language learning and will be extremely useful as wider life skills.
12 TOPICS:
• Hello!
• Hop, hop, hop!
• Colours
• Numbers
• Toys
• Winter
• Party time
• Clothes
• Fruit
• Food
• Feelings
• Christmas |
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FOR THE PARENTS AND THE CHILD AT HOME:
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Audio CD for use at home
Songs, rhymes and action stories
With the help of this CD / MC, parents can revisit in enjoyable ways at home the things that their children have learnt. |
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