Pelican English Learning

The complete EFL course for 6-12. Soar above the seas!

This is PEL, your complete EFL (English as a foreign language) course for elementary school students!

1. What is PEL?
2. Why choose PEL?
   1. -Comprehensive for teachers
   2. -Comprehensive for students
      1. Reading
      2. Writing
      3. Speaking
      4. Listening
   3. -Thoughtfully designed
   4. -Cost-effective and convenient
   5. -Easy to use for teachers
   6. -Easy to use for students
   7. -Includes a super-charged reference book for parents, students, and teachers
   8. -Long-lasting
3. How to order

What is PEL?

Pelican English Learning is a complete curriculum for teaching English to foreign learners. It was created by an experienced English teacher in Japan who knows the difficulties of learning a Category 3 language, and has developed tried and true techniques for effectively, efficiently, and enjoyably teaching English!

The suggested age range is 6-12, but you may find that it works with younger or older students too! The brilliance of PEL lies partly in its simplicity. The teacher just needs two A3-sized posters, and the student just needs a logbook and one page from a two-ring binder.
But packed into these materials is a complete and robust curriculum that will take students from zero to CEFR A1.

Why choose PEL?

-Comprehensive for teachers

Just buy the Starter Pack to get everything you need to begin teaching! Student folders can be ordered at any time, so you don’t have to worry about inventory.
The PEL Starter Pack includes:
-A non-transferable license for your school
-Promotional and explanatory materials for parents and prospective customers
-A set of posters for every unit of every level, with instructions for the teacher
-One copy of each level’s folder (eight total)
-A link and password for a variety of printable digital files: flashcards, tests, completion certificates, a teacher’s manual, and more!

-Comprehensive for students

PEL covers the four areas of language learning: reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Reading

Many other methods don’t focus on phonics, or don’t give phonics enough attention, requiring the teacher to supplement them with cumbersome or expensive phonics books.

With PEL, reading is taught using phonics first. From the first unit of Level 1 students are taught to read simple CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, and difficulty increases at a natural and manageable pace. Unlike many other textbooks, PEL does not expect students to memorize countless sight words. When sight words are introduced, they are primarily spoken/heard. As the students move to higher levels of PEL, so will their ability to read phonics and sight words alike.

Writing

Writing progresses from letter tracing and one-word fill-in-the-blank answers in Level 1, to full sentences expressing personal preferences in Level 8. Students are not just taught what letters are how how to use them to write English words, but how to use them to interact with a living language.

Speaking

PEL invites students to speak by creating a low-stress environment. A variety of activities and games has been designed to keep the experience of speaking English fresh, fun, and creatively potent. Puppets, cards, word games, and the special Assembly Line activity make a fun and fast-paced challenge that students are sure to enjoy.

Listening

Learning a language requires input. Students need to hear English being used by a native English speaker as much as possible. Unfortunately, quantity is a luxury when you only have one hour per week! PEL addresses this problem by assigning a listening track every week. Students can listen at home as many times as they like, which reinforces proper pronunciation and assists in reading. Every unit has its own listening, and some homework assignments have their own listening as well.

And, just as a bonus, every track has a different piece of classical or folk music in the background, to aid with memory and to broaden the students’ horizons! Many parents will be grateful that they are paying for English education and are receiving some music education too.

-Thoughtfully designed

PEL has been specially designed to teach English from square one, drawing from years of English teaching experience, and using the latest scientific findings. Here are just a few of the principles that make PEL successful.
•Spaced repetition: Periodic review is necessary. Most textbooks do not have a systematized repetition system; when they do repeat words it’s random or accidental. PEL has a deliberate system in place to prevent students from forgetting vocabulary words.
•Variation in images: Some learning systems tie a vocab word to the same image every time, putting students at risk of answering questions by only looking at the picture–no reading required. With PEL, a different image is used each time a word is reviewed, eliminating the shortcut.
•Phonics-based reading: Over the decades there has been extensive debate over the effectiveness of learning to read by phonics vs. using a “whole word” approach. The experiment has run its course and the results are in: phonics are fundamental. Words are introduced based on phonics rules. Sight words are introduced via sound, and students are given plenty of time to memorize the spelling before the rug is pulled away.
•Plenty more…: Consulted sources are given in the teacher’s manual.

-Cost-effective and convenient

A teacher’s textbook can wear down with use, and the binding especially wears down with repeated opening and closing. Laminated posters, on the other hand, can last for many years even if used roughly. Also, there’s no chance that you’ll lose your place during class and have to go looking for it. Because your school can print and laminate flashcards, there’s no need for you to buy replacements.
Student folders, being simple two-ring binders, cost less to produce than bound books, which saves your school money, and in turn saves your customers money.
At the beginning of class, the teacher can remove that day’s worksheet so that the students are ready to go during worksheet time. Afterwards the teacher places the homework sheet in the front of the folder, which eliminates confusion among students; they know exactly what their assignment is.

-Easy to use for teachers

A detailed manual will tell you how to effectively teach lessons using PEL, and posters have instructions printed on them so you don’t have to stop what you’re doing and lookup the manual during class. To teach a PEL lesson, you’ll need
-Two posters for that unit, included in the Starter Pack
-A set of flashcards (sometimes) which can be printed using the link and password included in the Starter Pack
-Three different colors of stickers, a stamp, and a pen
-(Optional) a CD player and a CD with children’s songs
-(Optional) an English-themed game for game time

That’s it!

Aside from that, recording attendance is a breeze, checking homework takes a few seconds, assigning listening takes even less time, and there’s never confusion about which poster worksheet goes with which unit. Everything was designed to be crystal clear for you!

-Easy to use for students

Students have one folder and one logbook. That’s it!

Every week they study one part of a unit and do one worksheet. At home they do one page of homework and listen to one audio track (usually). Some curricula have no audio portion, and most that do, require students to take home bulky and breakable CDs.
For better or worse, most homes nowadays don’t even have CD players.
With PEL, the future is now! Student folders and logbooks have QR codes which students can scan at home. They can listen as many times as needed online.

“But most elementary school students don’t have smartphones! How can they scan QR codes?”

That’s the idea. They have to use their parents’ phones, which means that the parents will know exactly what their children are studying.

-Includes a super-charged reference book for parents, students, and teachers

Included in every folder is a logbook, which is a high-powered study book. With it, students learn and practice classroom English and grammar points. The logbook also contains nearly every bit of information that students have learned so that they always have a quick reference book right at their fingertips.
Parents can check their child’s progress by looking at the color-coded stars in the back of the logbook at any time.
Finally, teachers can record students’ attendance and homework completion in a matter of seconds.

-Long-lasting

One folder lasts 50+ weeks, giving you a better value. There are eight levels, meaning that no matter how early a student starts, they’ll have enough PEL to last them until they’re ready to move to a Middle School/High School textbook!

How to order

Simply fill in the following information and we’ll get back to you ASAP. Please be sure to include your school’s URL or other information so that we can take a look.
Please note that to teach PEL in your school, we require that you have teachers who are native English speakers.