Mini Millie
A Practical Approach to English Phonology for Spanish Speaking Children
by Clem Durán and Silvia Bozzi

Learning to speak a foreign language is often best achieved by using both the aural and the visual senses. For older learners, the use of phonetic script can help immensely. Young learners, however, need a different kind of visual stimulus to identify and remind them of the main English sounds and intonation patterns.  Mini Millie aims to provide this.

The material consists of a set of amusing cartoon style pictures (big cards for the teacher and a pack of small cards for the students), a teacher’s book, a CD with recorded material, a dictionary of sounds and a workbook. The pictures help to make young learners aware of the phonological differences between Spanish and English. Through games and other activities based on the pictures, they are guided away from the pitfalls of pronunciation based on spelling and are led to explore and dramatise the features of the target language.

Each sound is represented by a character whose name includes the sound in question. So that the first visual contact should not be spelling , students are trained to “write” words with their cards; e.g.

 +  +    +  N  = GARDEN                                                                   
Gregory the Tiger       Dancing giraffe     Tidy Lydia

Mini Millie is not a course in itself. It is intended to be used in conjunction with almost any existing text for young learners and provides supplementary material to help in teaching the English pronunciation.

For further information, please contact
hello-millie@hotmail.com

Prices:

TEACHER’S PACK (5 and 6 year olds)
(Teacher’s book + set of big pictures + CD
+ Dictionary of sounds)   
$ 72 – Argentina
U$S 25 – Other countries

TEACHER’S PACK ( 7 year olds and plus)
(Teacher’s book + set of big pictures + CD
pack of cards + workbook + Dictionary of sounds) 
$ 105 – Argentina
U$S 35 – Other countries

STUDENT’S PACK
(Workbook + pack of cards)
$ 32 – Argentina
U$S 12 – Other countries

Postage

Capital Federal and Great Buenos Aires $ 30
Rest of Argentina $ 40
Other countries u$s 20

IF YOU WANT TO BUY IT,
PLEASE CONTACT US AT :
 info@welcometoenglishandfun.com