FOR STUDENTS FOR TEACHERS

Teacher’s Book

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PUPIL’S BOOK including: TEACHER’S BOOK including: hello

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• Navio App • Navio App • Class Audio CDs

• Language games and • Tap & Teach lessons • Flashcards
rewards • Posters • Wheel Mat
• Animated stories • Story cards • Mimi Puppet
• Songs and animated • Language games and rewards
song videos • Animated stories
• Real world videos • Songs and animated song
• Stickers videos
• Real world videos
• Photocopiable materials

STANDARD VS. PLUS VERSIONS

Mimi’s Wheel is available in two versions: STANDARD and PLUS.
The PLUS version has been created for English language
programmes with more contact hours.

Class Audio CDs

Class Audio CDs Plus

Mimi Puppet
Wheel Mat

To download videos
and unit samples, please visit:

mac-ed.courses/mimis-wheel
Please tell us how we can help you:
help.macmillaneducation.com
 Dear Teacher,

I’m delighted to welcome you to Mimi’s Wheel. Get ready

Mimi’s Wheel is a 3-level course designed to give teachers all
the tools they need to successfully teach groups of energetic
pre-primary learners. With the engaging stories that students will
instantly fall in love with, cooperative projects, enriching cultural
content and practical teacher support, teaching becomes both
effective and enjoyable.
to hop on with your children for what I hope will be
a truly enjoyable and successful learning journey!
Before we start, I’d like to introduce you to the imaginary
world of the meerkats. The delightful Mimi and her family
accompany us through the course and provide a rich
source of engaging, and often humorous, stories which
young children will want to hear again and again.
Mimi’s Wheel, with its brightly coloured pods, represents
the course’s innovative Hop on & Hop off approach to
learning.

Mimi’s Wheel takes into account the priorities and

FLEXIBILITY SO TEACHERS
C AN MEET STUDENTS’ NEEDS
A unique Hop on & Hop off
approach allows teachers to follow
the unit sequence or cover
the units in the order they choose.
THE MORE CHILDREN PLAY
everyday concerns of classroom practitioners, as well as
THE MORE THEY LEARN
applying what we know from academic research about
young children’s overall development and language
Practical classroom activities such
learning. It also incorporates many practical techniques
as pretend-play, games with rules
from my own experience of teaching young children.
and resources such as story cards
and songs, encourage children
to learn through play.

CLASS MANAGEMENT LEARNING AND TEACHING

A T YOUR FINGERTIPS POWERED BY NAVIO

Learning routines, a bank of Immersive 3D worlds

teaching ideas and activity
suggestions support teachers
in managing their class
positively and effectively.
and engaging language games
keep students learning while Tap
& Teach lessons allow teachers to
deliver clearly sequenced lessons
requiring minimum preparation.
Written by Carol Read, the award-winning young learner
expert, Mimi’s Wheel guarantees sound pedagogy, with
fresh, easy-to-implement teaching ideas that make learning
effective and pleasurable for pupils and teachers alike.
Carol Read’s expertise as a teacher, teacher trainer, author
and academic consultant, gives teachers the confidence
that teaching will be both straightforward and successful.
 Contents

Hello Classroom My body Clothes

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Fun with
can choose the order they
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Different types of play
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Colours p101 Shapes p105 Festivals
Numbers p103 Concepts p107
Dictionary
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units, aligning them to local
curriculum topics. help children develop
cognitive, social, emotional and
physical skills as well as language
Flexible and literacy, while making learning
an enjoyable experience.
teaching 1:19 hello
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Listen, point and repeat. Listen and play. Stick the classroom object stickers.
hello
helloCircle classroom objects you’ve got. Say. Language: crayons, glue, pencil,
pencil case, school bag, scissors; blue, green, orange, pink, red, yellow
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Values lessons help Playing and

children become aware of their
own actions and behaviour, while learning
encouraging them to develop
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The combination of the
meerkat family and the real life
photographic characters provides
opportunities to apply the newly
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Listen, point and sing Be good at home. Colour the pictures of Mimi and Dylan behaving

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hello well at home and school. Draw a picture of you behaving well at home or school. Say. SOCIAL AND 12
Language: home, school; Daddy, Mummy, Teacher; I’m good at (home). EMOTIONAL
LEARNING

Fantasy and
Story songs, lively videos,
cultural rhymes, stories and
reality
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classroom interactions.
Listen and find the new classroom objects. Listen, point and sing Have you got your
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hello
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hello school bag? Circle the objectshello
hello
Sam has got. Ask and say. Language: glue, paints, paper, 7
pencil case, school bag, scissors; Have you got your (school bag)? Yes, I have. / No, I haven’t.

Engaging Spiral binding lines

content the landscape side of the
Pupil’s Book which helps
both right-handed and left-
Project work encourages
handed children develop
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Watch. Listen and point. Circle the objects Uncle Dan has got. Colour the star if Uncle Dan
is ready. Colour the objects you’ve got. Ask and say. Language: crayons, glue, paints, paper, 11 children to collaborate in
pencil, pencil case, scissors; Have you got a (pencil)? Yes, I have. / No, I haven’t. I’ve got (paper).

fine motor skills.

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order to produce a collective
outcome while learning to take
responsibility and pride
in their work.
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COOPERATIVE
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Name the classroom objects you need. Make the Big Wheel. Say the colours.
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to go on the Big Wheel. Language: Big Wheel; crayons, 16
glue, paper, pencil; colours; I’ve got (crayons). I’m on (blue). Our Big Wheel is (fantastic)!
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& Teacher Support powered by Navio

Learning routines Flashcards and Story cards

Learning routine songs and chants allow teachers Flashcards for every key vocabulary item in the
to create a safe and caring learning environment course help to present and consolidate new
while providing the opportunity to expose children lexis. Story cards facilitate the presentation of Tap & Teach lessons
to the English language in a meaningful context. the story and allow teachers to check children’s
understanding of the content. The practical and easy to use set of digital tools
powered by Navio is ideal for pre-primary
classes. Navio supports teachers in delivering
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smoothly moving from one activity to another
without losing the attention of their students.

Watch. Listen, point and sing Let’s wear funny clothes today! Find and circle the Watch. Listen and point. Match and colour the clothes Uncle Dan is wearing. Watch. Listen to the story Let’s dress up! Circle the clothes Mimi and Dylan
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hello clothes Mimi and Dylan wear to the party. Point and hello
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shirt, shoes, shorts, skirt, socks, trousers; colours; (green and brown) (shorts), a (white) (hat) shoes, trousers; colours; I’m wearing a (red) (jumper). ted trousers; colours; This is a (shirt). These are (shoes). I’m wearing a (white) (hat).
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For teachers For students

Instant teacher training videos Teacher toolkit • Navio is easy-to-use and works offline providing • Interactive language games ensure that students
seamless transition between print materials progress by completing activities and gain
and digital components. a sense of achievement.
Practical teacher training videos provide invaluable The variety of tools available to use allows
support across all aspects of teaching pre-primary teachers to flexibly and confidently manage their • Tap & Teach lessons with integrated audio • Immersive and intuitive 3D worlds with extra
learners including guidance on how to maximise classrooms, adapting to their teaching context if and video ensure everything needed for course practice extend the learning process
the use of print and digital course materials. required. successful lessons is in one place. beyond the classroom.
Demonstrations and models of essential classroom • Built-in rewards system and assessment tools, • Gamified language practice creates opportunities
routines and procedures with commentaries including the Progress Tracker offer feedback on for better language acquisition.
from young learner experts instantly build learning outcomes. • Games and activities are always at the optimum
teachers’ confidence. • Teachers can develop digital teaching skills at level of challenge.
their own pace.
Teacher’s Book

Mimi Puppet
by Carol Read

The adorable Mimi puppet motivates and

encourages pre-primary learners, establishes
learning routines, and is a useful helper for
modelling activities and dialogues.

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