Listen to the story and read it.
We never lower the level of thinking — only the burden of English.
What matters is not how much English a child knows, but the power to say their own thinking in English. Not memorized vocabulary — one book a month, a four-week story inquiry, concept-centered English opened by Big Questions, simple repeated patterns, and an open-class drama that needs no script. An early-inquiry English program where thinking goes deep and English stays easy.
Thinking deepened in the mother tongue is expressed in simple, repeated English. The level of thinking never drops — only the burden of English. Working with the same story and the same concept in two languages, children communicate with the world in confidence.
Meet the key concept again in simple English.
The power of inquiry, grounded in the mother tongue
Deep thinking grows in the most familiar language.
Thinking deepened in the mother tongue
A foreign language ≠ a language for translation
A foreign language = a language that shares thinking with the world
This program was developed independently of the International Baccalaureate Organization and is not endorsed or approved by the IBO.
The English workbook: Student Inquirers
Listen to the story and read it.
Ask questions.
Talk it over with friends.
Speak as the characters.
Student Inquirers · the four-week workflow
Weekly LOI (lines of inquiry) and learning goals
The lesson becomes the stage
An open class that prepares itself — no script, no extra rehearsal
Say it, move it, complete it.
For three weeks the child has repeated these expressions — now they speak them as the characters. Nothing is newly memorized; expressions that already belong to the child are simply used on stage.
This program was developed independently of the International Baccalaureate Organization and is not endorsed or approved by the IBO.
AGE 5
DISCOVER
Observing myself, friends, animals, and nature, and expressing discoveries in short, easy English.
360+ words
AGE 6
EXPLORE
Questioning and comparing what was discovered, asking and answering in familiar English patterns.
650+ words
AGE 7
CONNECT & EXPRESS
Connecting inquiry to their own experience, and expressing their thinking with the English they learned.
980+ wordsLowering the burden of preparation, and producing learning results you can see every week.
A lesson of growth whose results remain: understand, repeat, express
Never lowering the thinking — keeping the expression simple
STEP 2 · Age 6 · Book 1 My Friend Lulu
STEP 2 · Age 6 · Book 1 My Friend Lulu
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