Keren! Stage 2 Course Book

Keren! Stage 2 Course Book is arranged into seven topics of study designed to stimulate student interest and to present real-life situations in Indonesia. Full-color illustrations accompany each lesson as students follow the adventures of a young Australian girl named Nicky, and her family and friends in Indonesia and Australia. Each topic in Keren! is taught thematically, built around a cartoon comic strip storyboard that emphasizes listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Each cartoon dialogue is performed on the Stage 2 Audio CDs using a variety of accents. Students will learn dialogues, listening skills, and key vocabulary words and expressions, as well as grammar and Indonesian cultural notes.

Some topics in the Keren! Stage 2 Course Book include travel, food likes and dislikes, and illness. In Stage 2, Nicky travels to Yogyakarta and students learn how this city contrasts with Jakarta.

A Companion Website for Keren! Stage 2 offers a wealth of support material for students and teachers, including: review questions (auto-correcting, multiple choice, labelling, matching and fill-in-the-blank), helpful web links to sites supporting research and exploration, technology activities (drag and drop interactive activities), student study guide activities, and a teacher's resource center (password protected area with curriculum correlation grids for Australian learning guidelines and a teaching plan for each topic).