Adventures in Canada – (3 Book Set + Video)

Adventures in Canada continues from Visitors from Saturn

14 ESL lessons 

Student Book 

Adventures in Canada continuous series has an interest level appropriate for children 12 years of age and younger who are learning to understand, speak, read and write English as a second language.

It is assumed that they will have been introduced to the alphabet, beginning consonant sounds, and short vowel sounds. This book stresses the teaching of consonant blends. It introduces a new vocabulary of about 162 words that is built upon the vocabulary in earlier books in the series. Role-plays are an important part of this book. Pictures are provided throughout to facilitate understanding. Reading skills are developed by providing word repetition, phonics and dialogues. The crossword puzzles reinforce the material that has been introduced.

The basic teacher instructions are given in small boxes on each page. It is important that the teacher repeat each question and guide the children’s sentence answers. In this way the children are learning basic sentence structure and grammar.

Teacher Guide
The colorful games provided in this Guide motivate learning. The children will always want to play again. The games also provide essential listening and speaking activities that build vocabulary and sentence structure. They are a very important part of the program.

Practice Book

This book provides independent work for the children. The students will need a brief explanation of what they are to do before starting the pages that accompany each lesson.

Each student travels with the storybook characters and a classroom or an imaginary friend. This encourages imaginative ideas and stimulates student interest. The activities include drawing, printing, reading, printing question answers, role-plays and drawing their understanding of a situation. At this level sentence answers are shown in boxes. These provide the students with spelling, the correct verb tense needed to answer the questions and the word order of the sentences.