A first English course for children who are ready for reading and writing.
Happy Street can be used after an oral/aural course such as Happy House, or as a first English course which includes reading and writing from the beginning. The characters from Happy House, Polly and Jack, take young learners outside the context of the house and help them to explore the neighbourhood.
Men of Letters, Writing Lives takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian autobiography and biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. The book focuses on two case studies from the period 1880-1903: the theories and achievements of Sir Leslie Stephen and the debate surrounding James Anthony Groude's account of the marriage of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Trev Broughton argues that the modernization of life writing was due to the commercialization of the life and letters industry...
A story-based course that introduces young children to English first through listening and speaking, and then provides a gentle introduction to reading and writing.
A story-based course that introduces young children to English first through listening and speaking, and then provides a gentle introduction to reading and writing.
