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About the authors
Meet Stella Maidment and Lorena Roberts, the authors of Happy House.
Acknowledgements
Illustrations by Peter Stevenson.
Useful links
Links to other websites where you can find background information about a variety of topics and a source of ideas and materials for your teaching.
What's on the Student's Site?
Ruby, Spike, Tina, Rodney and Otto invite your students to take part in a range of practice activities and games. Read in more detail about the activities on the site here.
Character cut-outs
You can download and print these drawings of the characters from Happy House for your pupils to cut out and colour.
Planning documents
Here you can download useful documents to help you plan your teaching.
- Happy House 1 Language Summary PDF ( 98 KB )
- Happy House 2 Language Summary PDF ( 92 KB )
Greetings cards
You can download and print these cards for your pupils to decorate and send to their friends and family.
Happy House certificate PDF ( 111 KB )
Print off a certificate for your students to fill in once they’ve completed Happy House 1.
Wordlists
Here you can download Happy House wordlists with phonemic transcriptions. There are also versions with a bilingual translation.
Teaching notes
Here you can download teaching notes and answer keys for the new Activity Book.
- Happy House Level 1 PDF ( 295 KB )
Classroom language
A list of essential classroom language with audio.
Student's Site
Ruby, Spike, Tina, Rodney and Otto invite you to take part in a range of practice activities and games.
