High Flyers

EF’s High Flyers course uses customized EF books and materials specially designed for students aged 7 to 10.

Our High Flyers course is designed in five stages, each of which is divided into two distinct levels. In order to place new students in the most suitable stage, we have developed oral placement test materials that help our teachers assess the students’ level and general English knowledge.

Throughout the course, teachers follow a carefully tailored continuous assessment system that allows them to monitor students' progress and identify areas that need improvement. To complement the continuous classroom assessment, progress is also evaluated by teachers at the end of each unit, level and stage to ensure that students are reaching their absolute potential.

EF’s High Flyers course uses EF’s unique Efekta system to foster the development of fundamental English skills and enhance students’ communication and learning abilities. Our Efekta system combines:

- Face-to-face lessons
- Classroom Companion Unit multimedia content
- Practice & Play flash based content
- Parent Pages feedback tool
- Life Club activities

Our lessons follow EF’s communicative method and focus on building students’ confidence and abilities to speak English naturally. The High Flyers curriculum emphasizes practical and conversational skills to help children communicate and interact in English. EF’s teachers are able to build interactive and creative lessons using customized High Flyers materials: flashcards, work cards, game cards, phonics activities and CD, classroom Companion Unit, songs CD, audio CD, quizzes, and tests. Read more about this product.

Our internet based learning program Practice & Play provides an opportunity for the student to practice what they have learned in the classroom either at home or at school. It is a set of online flash-based activities and games that reinforce the language. Each level gives access to 32 activities and 4 games. Moreover, each time an activity is completed, a new one becomes available. In total, there are 396 activities that provide more than 100 hours of fun learning. Therefore, vocabulary and listening from the HF books are practiced in a unique and fun way.

Parent Pages has been designed to facilitate communication between teachers, course consultants and parents. Comments are regularly added by the teacher into the system and then immediately translated into local language so that parents are able to easily read them. In this way, Parent Pages allows parents to closely track their child’s development and participate in their child’s learning progress.

Classroom Companion Unit is a set of interactive multimedia materials that teachers can access via the classroom’s computer. The materials complement the activities in the book and are used to present or practice the target language in a much more interactive way.

Life Club events are teacher led activities that take place in an environment outside of the traditional classroom setting. The teacher acts only as a facilitator, assisting and guiding the students as they engage in the activities. Each Life Club session is based on a different theme which brings variety to the course. Life Clubs provide the perfect setting for students to participate in communicative activities, socialize and have fun in an English speaking environment.