Publications

What’s new?

Our new course Blue Dot aims to create tomorrow’s changemakers. If you’re looking for an aspirational course, this is it!

Language Level: Pre-A1 – B2

Blue Dot’s innovative concept-led approach enables students to investigate, make connections, and form enduring understandings about the world around them. Help to create the changemakers of tomorrow with Blue Dot. Available in 6 levels: Level 1 – Level 6.

Written by: Lesley Koustaff, Susan Rivers, Kathleen Kampa, Charles Vilina, Kenna Bourke, Fiona Beddall

To learn more about Concept Based Inquiry, check out Oxford University Press’ position paper on CBI. It was an honor for me to be part of this project.

Check out this series of Talking ELT podcasts on CBI with Fiona Beddall and Carla Marshall.

Beehive and Buzz

Learn, grow, fly. Together, we get results! Beehive and Buzz get your students working together to achieve great results. See them learn about the world around them, grow their global skills and fly through their exams and beyond!

  • Language Level: Beginner – Intermediate (Pre-A1 – B1)

Are you ready to fly and teach with confidence?

Beehive is a teacher-led, but student-centered course with a strong emphasis on vocabulary and grammar that will prepare your students for exam success. You’ll find clearly structured lessons, a comprehensive grammar and vocabulary syllabus, fun characters, real world content and exciting projects.

Whether you’re learning face to face, remotely or both, Beehive offers flexible learning tools for every situation.

Written by: Cheryl Palin, Helen Casey, Setsuko Toyama, Tamzin Thompson, Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina, Michelle Mahony and Joanna Ross, and Diana Anyakwo.

Magic Time, published by Oxford University Press, is a two-level course for children learning English for the first time. Authors Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina have created “many ways to learn” on every page of Magic Time with colorful visuals, friendly characters, engaging songs and chants, and a variety of games and activities. With each new lesson, children gain confidence as they communicate with others in English.
Everybody Up, published by Oxford University Press, is a seven-level course that motivates children by linking the English classroom to the wider world.  Through Everybody Up, authors Patrick Jackson, Susan Banman Sileci, Kathleen Kampa, and Charles Vilina encourage children to use language in a natural and meaningful way by connecting English to their own lives.  Fun stories, great songs by award-winning songwriters, and cross-cultural lessons create a fun and motivating approach to learning English.
Oxford Discover aims to create young thinkers with great futures. Using an inquiry-based approach to learning, Oxford Discover develops the communication skills and thinking skills students need for success in the 21st century.
How do we measure time? Why do people write poems? Where does energy come from?
Oxford Discover uses Big Questions such as these to tap into students’ natural curiosity. It enables them to ask their own questions, find their own answers, and explore the world around them.
This approach to language learning and literacy, supported by a controlled grammar and skills syllabus, helps students achieve near-native fluency in English.
Oxford Discover gives teachers the tools to develop children’s 21st century skills, creating young thinkers with great futures.

Learn, grow, fly. Together, we get results! Beehive and Buzz get your students working together to achieve great results. See them learn about the world around them, grow their global skills and fly through their exams and beyond!

  • Language Level: Beginner – Intermediate (Pre-A1 – B1)

Are you ready to fly and teach with confidence?

Beehive is a teacher-led, but student-centered course with a strong emphasis on vocabulary and grammar that will prepare your students for exam success. You’ll find clearly structured lessons, a comprehensive grammar and vocabulary syllabus, fun characters, real world content and exciting projects.

Whether you’re learning face to face, remotely or both, Beehive offers flexible learning tools for every situation.

Written by: Cheryl Palin, Helen Casey, Setsuko Toyama, Tamzin Thompson, Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina, Michelle Mahony and Joanna Ross, and Diana Anyakwo.

Blue Dot

Creating tomorrow’s changemakers

Language Level: Pre-A1 – B2

Blue Dot’s innovative concept-led approach enables students to investigate, make connections, and form enduring understandings about the world around them. Help to create the changemakers of tomorrow with Blue Dot. Available in 6 levels: Level 1 – Level 6.

Written by: Lesley Koustaff, Susan Rivers, Kathleen Kampa, Charles Vilina, Kenna Bourke, Fiona Beddall

Kathy has created two albums of original children’s music to build language, encourage movement, nurture creativity, and spark imaginations. You can find her music on iTunes, Apple Music and Spotify. Kathy has numerous videos on her YouTube page-Kathy Kampa-Educational Videos for Kids.