All the energy and know-how of Genki English in a groovy new DVD, CD and picture book series!
The new "Kids English" series has been designed from the ground
up to get kids aged 0-8 genki at home, but it works just as well in primary
school or "eikaiwa" English classes.
It's a huge two boxed set with lots and lots of fun activities...
From 0 to 2 years old, listening is the most important skill to work on.
For this first section of Kids English we have chosen a selection of traditional
English songs and games to help babies get used to the sounds of English.
As parent-child "skinship" is also an important part of Kids
English, nearly all of the songs have actions and gestures that parents
can use along with the songs. There are DVDs of how to do these actions,
then parents play along with their children whilst listening to the CDs.
There is lots & lots of support material available in Japanese for
parents, but these activities also work very well in "Mums & Babies"
type class lessons as well.
Then from 2 years and up the focus is on the speaking and for that we have...
Hard Back Picture Books
The "Big Kids" section of Kids English is split into 12 different
themes. Of course there are themes such as "animals" or "transport"
but there is also the original "Just Imagine" theme and a brilliant
"It's my birthday" theme. Each one was chosen to focus on language
kids really want to say and each one has its own, very high quality picture
book. I wrote the stories but the pictures have been drawn by some of the
best, prize winning, artists in Japan.
Each book has the main story on the top left, then a miniature story on
the bottom right. Using the CD the kids can understand the miniature story
right away, then once they have watched the theme's DVD they can also understand
the full story. Each book also has a pull out or bonus style page which
needless to say are the most popular pages with the kids!
Here is the list of themes with Classroom Teaching Guides in English.
1.
Bubble Bubble ( parts of the body)
2. In the Kitchen...
3. Photo Safari ( animals)
4. Going Shopping
5. Happy Birthday
6. At the Beach
7. Ready, Steady, Go ( transport )
8. At the Park
9. Hide and Seek
10. Dressing Up! ( Clothes )
11. Just imagine ...
12. Merry Christmas
Full Length CDs
But of course we don't expect the kids to read the picture books by themselves.
Each one is accompanied by a full length CD featuring several narrations
of the story along with music and sound effects that really make you feel
like you've entered a movie.
For each theme there is a slow, "parentese" recording (just right
for a bedtime read), a normal speed narration (recording by professional
voice actors) and of course a very genki reading (by me and friends!).
Plus there is a brand new Genki English song for each theme and there are
also some great real life games for the kids to play.
There's also a bonus CD featuring just the twelve songs (which were recorded
in the same studio Gwen Stefani has used)
Kids DVDs
Then we have the main video "lessons". These are just like Genki
English lessons, but presented by professional LA actors.
For each theme there is a complete video introduction of all the basic
language. Then we have the teaching of the song, and finally how to play
the game for each theme. The lead actor was recently in Fox TV's "House"
and they are very, very fun!
In order to help shy kids (or more usually their parents!) there are also
a series of hand puppets included, you simply pretend it's them speaking
English if you are too shy to do it yourself. They also feature in the
DVD and make a great link between the TV and real life.
The star of Kids English is "Happy Chan". You click her hand
and she talks in the most cute & adorable English you can imagine.
At first kids can't understand anything of what she says, but as all the
phrases come from the DVD themes, over the weeks & months the children
slowly begin picking up new phrases. It's great for parents to be able
to see how well their children and coming along!
And there is soooo much more in this set including lots and lots of support
for the parents.
We've basically taken all the energy and techniques from Genki English
and along with a lot of other very talented people, have put them together
into this huge set so that anyone can have fun, get confident and learn
or teach English with their kids. It comes in two massive boxes and makes
an amazing present.
So order yours today!
220,000 Yen (Including Tax)
Please give us a ring on ( in Japanese only.)
( The DVDs are only formatted for use in Japan)
or
If you have any questions, please get in touch.
Be genki!
Richard