Pandy and Friends

For Starters

Pandy and Friends is a three-level English language course for pre-school children aged between 3 and 5 years old.

The program offers a wide range of materials to ensure fun lessons for very young learners, and is designed to motivate children through entertaining chants, songs, pen-to-paper activities, games, stickers and stories.

The methodology of the course is based on child-centered active learning. It is based on a spiral syllabus with frequent opportunities to revisit language and structures. The course is extremely flexible and can be adapted to fit into programs with more or fewer contact hours.

Key Features:

Program Components

Student Book

The colorful and beautifully illustrated books are filled with activities to promote pre-reading skills, develop vocabulary, comprehension, observation and fine motor skills.

The stories link to morals and values and celebrate diversity and culture.

Reward stickers are supplied to help little learners experience a sense of achievement.

Teacher’s Guide

The full-colour Teacher’s Guide contains step-by-step instructions on how to use the materials (worksheets, flashcards, the Pandy puppet) and carry out lessons. It includes sections on routines
and extra ideas and material for engaging class activities. It also features the following elements:

- Phonics lessons.
- Reinforcement and extension activities at the end of the lessons.
- Panda Pointers: tips and pointers to assist teachers with classroom management.
- Lyrics for the chants and songs, as well as audio scripts for the dialogues and listening activities.
- Pre-story and post-story pages.
- Establish Routines section with routine chants and transitions to structure the lesson.

Teacher’s Guide - Digital

The digital book contains all the course materials for an interactive whiteboard and the ‘Heads-up’ interactive lessons.

Activity Book

The Activity Book accompanies the Student’s Book and reinforces each unit’s target language through a wide variety of engaging activities. Pen-to-paper activities; pre-reading and pre-writing exercises; consolidation activities and pull-out pages to help learners revise vocabulary.

 

Puppet

Children love puppets. The Pandy puppet can be used by the teacher in a variety of ways to help present and practise language. It allows the teacher to interact and communicate with the children in their real and fantasy worlds.

 

Story Cards

Story Cards serve to develop comprehension and concentration skills and present values in an engaging way. They encourage active participation, while teaching values and social skills. Stories help transmit authentic rhythm and intonation: they train the ear and help the children to recognise and imitate the music of the language. The illustrations help to convey meaning, while both the context and the situation anchor the vocabulary.

 

Flashcards

The full-colour Flashcards represent the key vocabulary of the entire course. The Teacher’s Guide carries clear guidelines for using them in the presentation, practice and consolidation stages,
as well as their use in many games. Additional flashcard resources have been added to the series to assist teachers in helping children learn about the alphabet, numbers and phonics.

 

Posters

Pandy and Friends now has an expanded series of interactive posters which offer teachers and students visual supports in the following areas: colours and shapes, the alphabet, numbers, phonics. There is also a special ‘Pandy Playhouse’ poster.