Special Features
GrapeSEED: the world's first comprehensive English language curriculum designed especially for children aged 4-12 years old.salient features of the curriculum
- GrapeSEED is an unparalleled and revolutionary English learning system that has done away with the antiquated grammar-based approach (geared to adult brains) to make way for the new "Functions and Concepts" approach (geared to how children naturally acquire language).
- Learning a lot of vocabulary does not teach you to become a good speaker of a language. Accordingly, we aim to first nurture communication skills ; vocabulary comes esaily as part of this natural process. Great care is taken to avoid confusing children with grammatical patterns which they need not use. We teach functional English and promote the usage of grammatically correct English.
- Each learning step in GrapeSEED has a definite objective, and all of the steps progress toward the goal of proficiency. students rapidly advance using an intentional evolutionary, integrated approach or acquiring the language.No time and energy is wasted on grammar or phrases that the students will not require immediately. The result is a dramatic increase in both speed of acquisition and overall proficiency.
- We have created a high-level systematic approach by adding computer aided tests that incorporate all of the various skills required to understand and express themselves in the language. The lessons in each level are designed to include original stories, songs, poems, chants, CDs and DVDs. In this way, they integrate all the learning areas: listening, comprehension, writing, spelling, grammar, etc. The initial lessons begin gradually integrating easy-to-absorb, practical, and useful vocabulary and language functions. The later lessons build on those early lessons and expand their practical usage, thus giving students a systematic and efficient approach. Further, GrapeSEED integrates into the learning system the top 100 vocabulary words with the highest frequency of usage in daily English conversation, and the most useful language functions.
- GrapeSEED provides the fundamentals and objectives that help children to learn ESL with consistently good results. The illustrations in the text book are not just simple pictures, but have been designed precisely to express the learning objective (noun, verb, antonym, preposition) that the text explains. GrapeSEED devotes a lot of time to the design of each illustration, recognizing that each one is indispensable in helping children to learn the language. The same applies to songs: we ensure that the lyrics help children to learn English naturally while singing these songs. The curriculum was designed to teach English correctly and smoothly.
- Children learn new vocabulary and language functions readily but in order to upgrade their level from "Listen and understand" to "Use independently," they need to practice a lot. With this in mind, GrapeSEED has created educational materials called EEE, Extended English Environment, to facilitate this practice-intensive learning approach and helps them to rapidly in a short span of time.