Fun Skills
Fun Skills
Fun Skills prepares young learners for Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers and A2 Flyers, making sure they develop the skills they need in fun, motivating ways.
Meet Sage the Squirrel, Checklist Buddy, Think Big Giraffe and friends, created by kids around the world, who guide and entertain children through this exciting journey. Learners practise exam tasks, assess their own work and connect what they learn to the world. Topic-led lessons bring learning to life with songs, grammar fun, animations and quirky photos! The Mini Trainers provide two full practice tests for each level of the Cambridge English Qualifications for young learners, helping children feel familiar with the exam experience and ready to show what they can do! The Home Booklet means children and parents can enjoy entertaining stories and do extra practice together, supporting learning outside the classroom.
Key features
The Mini Trainers for Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers and A2 Flyers provide two full-colour practice tests with Training and Exam Practice
Sage the Squirrel, Checkilst Buddy, Think Big Giraffe and friends were imagined by children around the world to guide and entertain them as they learn. t
With a strong focus on all four skills, topic-led lessons bring everything to life with songs, Grammar fun, animations and quirky photos!
What makes Fun Skills special?
Video animations in Presentation Plus and the Mini Trainers provide lively input and extra help
A ‘Grammar fun!’ section for each two levels, requested by teachers, covers key areas of grammar and structure for the exams syllabus.
The Home Booklet provides extra skills practice to do at home, as well as 'Fun boost' activities on every page and entertaining short stories featuring each of the characters in the Student’s Book.
Webinars and accompanying blogs offer teaching tips you can instantly implement into your lessons. Topics include grammar, collaboration, stories and universal values, pronunciation, self-evaluation, vocabulary and general fun class ideas!
Optional exam-style taster tasks for each part of the exams in turn are integrated into the units.
Skills checklists at the back of the book help students understand their own progress, building their confidence as they learn and get ready to show what they can do on exam day.
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Fun Skills is a course which has been designed and inspired by children’s ideas throughout its development. We launched a global competition inviting young learners to imagine their own character and describe their characteristics. Groups of children then helped select the winners from thousands of entries and suggested which tasks the characters might fulfil. The course and its features were then developed around these characters.
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Four appear throughout the course: The Professor presents exam tasks, Sage the Squirrel offers tips, Checklist Buddy encourages children to assess their own work, and Think Big Giraffe helps children connect their learning to their own worlds. There are an additional 8 more characters per level who bring learning and exam preparation to life and help children explore other lifelong skills with questions, tips and advice.
Exam preparation and beyond
Fun Skills provides six levels of exam preparation. It can be used in intensive exam preparation classes, or to supplement a primary English course, with fun activities and optional exam task practice.
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Exam tasks are integrated into every unit, blending English and fun with targeted exam preparation. Each unit builds up children’s confidence as they progress towards Pre A1 Starters (levels 1-2), A1 Movers (levels 3-4) and A2 Flyers (levels 5-6).
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Skills-based, topic-led lessons focus on reading, writing, speaking and listening. This is combined with tasks designed to draw out critical and creative thinking, collaboration and communication.
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Diversity and inclusion in Fun Skills
Children from around the world were included in the series design, with the initial creative ideas coming from them. Many of the characters that children designed are diverse in appearance, gender neutral or challenge gender stereotypes.
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Tasks, photos and illustrations throughout have been chosen to represent disability, ethnicity, family and culture diversity as well as to challenge gender and age stereotypes. Quirky images with modern slants have been chosen to illustrate tasks, and many of the images in and of themselves provide additional talking points in class.
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Families are involved through the parent-led Fun Boost projects in the Home Booklets.
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From research into test anxiety we developed the Skills checklists at the back of book to help students build confidence in their progress and focus on what they can do, thus making the exams more accessible.
Integrated digital
Digital resources are integrated intelligently with the material in a fresh way. Fun video animations throughout can be shown by teachers on screen in class or children can watch via embedded QR codes with their parents at home. The characters tell stories and sing songs in colourful animations.
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The teacher can access animations in Presentation Plus, which help introduce each lesson and prepare the class for English learning. Songs help to unpick exam tasks in a friendly and accessible way.
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Each of the Mini Trainers has character animations to introduce the exams tasks and explain how they work.
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Fun Skills Level 1 Student's Book and Home Booklet with Online Activities
Fun Skills Level 2 Student's Book and Home Booklet with Online Activities
Fun Skills Level 3 Student's Book and Home Booklet with Online Activities
Fun Skills Level 4 Student's Book and Home Booklet with Online Activities
Fun Skills Level 5 Student's Book and Home Booklet with Online Activities
Fun Skills Level 6 Student's Book and Home Booklet with Online Activities
Fun Skills Level 2 Student's Book with Home Booklet and Downloadable Audio
Fun Skills Level 4 Student's Book with Home Booklet and Downloadable Audio
Fun Skills Level 1 Teacher's Book with Audio Download
Fun Skills Level 2 Teacher's Book with Audio Download
Fun Skills Level 3 Teacher's Book with Audio Download
Fun Skills Level 4 Teacher's Book with Audio Download
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