Contents introduction chapter I. Approaches to teaching reading skills chapter II. Methods of teaching reading to learners

Speaking skills
There are interactive and task-based activities that require students to use the new vocabulary to communicate. Speaking practice takes place through the practice of new language items, in dialogue work and class activities. This develops both their speaking and social skills and can be considered as one of the obvious pluses of the textbook. The more mechanical aspects of speaking are also occasionally covered in pronunciation practice.
Listening skillstextbook does not provide children with exercises for developing listening skills. This means that children do not have the opportunity to listen to native speech. No CD, cassettes, videos are offered with the textbook to help children to discriminate sounds, stress, melody and to acquire correct language habits.
Reading skills
The instructions in the textbook tell students to read for comprehension and to express their own opinion concerning the text. The exercises promote critical reading of the text. The only serious shortcoming is that the instructions are in English and the child can have difficulties in understanding them.
Writing skillsare two approaches to writing skills: a product- oriented approach and a process-oriented approach. The product-oriented approach typically engages learners in imitating, copying and transforming models of correct language texts while the process-oriented approach emphasizes brainstorming, planning, drafting, revision, and editing. Product writing focuses on sentence structure and grammar, while process writing demands more creative work. The activities and exercises presented in the textbook incorporate both approaches. The children should write compositions, letters, short stories using the new vocabulary. Other writing exercises include asking questions to the text, making up questions and answering them, etc.textbook develops children’s basic communication abilities in English by teaching children to talk (write) about themselves and their immediate environments, and to communicate about topics of interest with a partner.textbook differs from other ones that it offers a number of tales and stories which can be given as home-reading or read in the classroom by the teacher. These are authentic pieces of literature. Besides, stories and tales are always appealing to children and can make English an attractive school subject to children, foster their motivation, and encourage them to learn languages in the future.