The Online World offers children online games where their avatars interact and solve exciting and original missions. Games-based learning is based on the principles of…

• Immersion: Students are immersed in a coherent context that maintains students’ enthusiasm and participation.
• Stealth learning: In The Online World learning takes place without students being aware of it.
• Mastery: The Online World encourages exploration and hypotheses-making and testing.
• Control: Students love immersive worlds because they can fail without censure or observation.

Extremely easy to teach, Islands focuses on making things simple, straight-forward but extremely memorable:

• Poptropica™ characters set the theme and present new language through a visually appealing scene and a catchy chant, games, and listening tasks.
• Catchy songs and chants (at least two per unit) present and practise language, promoting a sense of confidence and achievement and building group synergy.
• Games and quizzes systematize language in relevant contexts.
• Language repetition in meaningful interactions make language easy to remember and easy to transfer to normal everyday communication.
• Integrated skills practice with rich-text input guarantees a strong basis for CYLET exam preparation.
• Funny stories integrate language and lead into a CLIL lesson, a fun hands-on activity and a simple project to build a Student Portfolio.
• A special Synthetic Phonics programme teaches pronunciation and spelling and helps develop pupils’ reading and writing.
• Extensive Reading practice in higher levels.
  In Islands 1, Values sections introduce children to social responsibility.

A complete range of learning and teaching resources to fit all your students’ needs:

• A thoroughly drawn Workbook offers language practice in fun contexts, and skills training in exam-type exercises.
• A Reading and Writing Booklet provides extra exam preparation for specific coaching in CYLET and KET formats.
• A Grammar Booklet offers focused systematic grammar practice for mixed-ability classes.
• Access code to The Online World where students have their own avatar.
• Teacher’s Book with access code to the Online World and a Test Booklet to assess with course-specific and exam contents.