Story Magic

Susan House and Katharine Scott

BEGINNER TO PRE-INTERMEDIATE

Story Magic is a four-level story-based primary course. Story Magic uses a story-based approach to language learning, supported by large full-colour story cards. In Story Magic 1 and 2 pupils share stories and learn with Max the Wizard. In Story Magic 3 and 4 pupils follow the adventures of a gang of young detectives as they solve mysteries and go on exciting adventures together.

Key Features of Levels 1 and 2

• A carefully graded syllabus building on the English learnt in Mini Magic
• Lively, cognitively challenging activities and games
• Max’s magic words: activities to help children read in English
• Stories following Max the wizard and children Eddie and Rose, creating a link between fantasy and the ‘real’ world
• A picture dictionary with stickers

Key Features of Levels 3 and 4

• A carefully graded communicative syllabus which builds on the English learnt in Story Magic 1 and 2
• Reading rhymes to help children develop their reading in English
• Fact files full of interesting facts bringing the real world into the classroom
• Language clues to help children focus on grammar for the first time
• Stories following the little detectives, Ali, Mel, Dan and Beth, again linking fantasy and the ‘real’ world