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Thumbs up
Home ThUp!2 Interactive

Website:

http://www.thumbs-up-richmond.com/

Authors:

Sarah Fash • Suzanne Harris • Martyn Hobbs • Julia Keddle.

Resources

Components For the Student:

CD-ROM, Student’s Book + Practice Book included, • Student’s book • Cutouts and Holidays Booklet • Practice Book • Student’s CD • Interactive CD-ROM • Website.

Components For the Teacher:

 ashcards, assessments, CD-ROM, Class CD, Teacher's Book, templates, vocabulary lists), word cards, • Teacher’s Guide in  ve easy-to-carry booklets • Poster and Poster Cutouts • Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM (worksheets.

Hours per week:3 to 4

Description:

Thumbs Up! is a six-level primary series that motivates children to learn English while developing other areas of knowledge. Every child is an individual with unique abilities and strengths, and Thumbs Up! helps students discover their own pathway to learning.
Through cross-curricular themes, stories, songs, poems, games, values and multiple intelligence activities, Thumbs Up! fosters
students’ critical thinking skills, creativity and natural curiosity in other curriculum subjects..

Richmond has created an exclusive microsite for students and teachers working
with Thumbs Up!
The Teacher’s Area contains the following elements:

  •  Detailed instructions for GAMES that you can use in class to get your students speaking in English
  •  A WIKI where you can share information and materials with other teachers using Thumbs Up!
  •  An area where you can DOWNLOAD useful worksheets for your classes
  •  A SOCIAL NETWORK for teachers to keep in touch and exchange ideas

Your students will have access to the following resources:

  • All three levels of the THUMBS UP! INTERACTIVE CD-ROM are available online
  • EXTRA INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES from the Richmond Cool Kids Interactive CD-ROM help students consolidate what they learn in your classes
  • A bank of JOKES in English organized by level will get your learners laughing and recycling the language they learn in Thumbs Up!
  • A FORUM with exciting activities moderated by a professional Richmond e-tutor is a safe virtual space for your students to continue working in English after school
  • An ART GALLERY gives students the chance to display their work

Key Features:

  • Emergent grammar in a spiral program: students discover grammar rules at their own pace over several presentations
  • Cross-curricular spreads with hands-on projects where the focus is on meaning and not on form, as in  first language  acquisition
  • A structured reading skills program with original stories, a comprehensive phonics and spelling program, and a six-level writing program
  • A values program, featuring the Thumbs Up Gang comic strip
  • Assessments, worksheets, templates,  ashcards, word cards and vocabulary lists
  • Practice on every page