Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate – French Sentence Builders (The Language Gym – Sentence Builder Books)
£19.90
This ‘no-frills’ book contains 15 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout.
Each unit includes:
1) A sentence builder modelling the target constructions;
2) A set of vocabulary building activities;
3) A set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;
4) A set of retrieval-practice translation tasks;
5) A set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning.
Based on the Extensive Processing Instruction (E.P.I.) principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features, the authors have carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over.
Alongside the macro-units you will find:
Question-skills units: two pages on understanding and creating questions. These micro-units occur after every unit in the book, so as to recycle the same question patterns in different linguistic contexts; Revision workouts: these are retrieval practice tasks aimed at keeping the previously learnt vocabulary alive. They too occur at regular intervals, after every other unit.
Please note that The Language Gym language-gym.com website is an ideal supplement to this booklet. Our website recycles every single lexical and structural item found in this book many times over via self-marking vocabulary, reading & listening workouts, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful Verb, Listening Trainer and Vocab Trainer.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 2nd edition (22 Aug. 2021), Language Gym |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 210 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 3949651128 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3949651120 |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 1.22 x 27.94 cm |
by J. Nogues
I am a fan of the Language Gym books. The sentence builders and exercises are well-written and well thought through. This book is no exception. It saves a great deal of time in my planning and my students love it! A win-win situation. Highly recommended to any MFL Department!
by G Jones
Having been a fan of the EPI approach to teaching we purchased this for all our staff. Students enjoy the activities from these books and really embrace the opportunity to thoroughly embed new vocabulary and grammar structures. Strongly recommend to any language teachers or students. Another great book from Conti and Vinales!
by AL
I would highly recommend this very useful book to any French teachers. The sentence builders have been carefully thought of and the activities have been organised in such a way that students will make quick progress. The patterns, vocab and structures are cleverly used and reused throughout the book and each task focus on meaning and form. This is a great book to have for Y9 students but could also be used with GCSE groups for revision.
by S Fedrizzi
This comprehensive resource is a must-have for teachers of intermediate French. The 15 sentence builders plus the vast amount of activities are huge time-saver for busy teachers, who are, despite all the constraints and demands of the job eager to provide a top-notch learning experience. The content covers the most common topics for the intermediate level such as “talking about my town” and “talking about a recent day trip” and the pedagogy is based upon GF Conti’s E.P.I. approach.
by MISS P J STALLARD
Well written, high quality, great resources
by Serena Dawson
I bought this as soon as it was available, having already purchased the Spanish version. An experienced languages teacher, this approach has completely transformed my classroom teaching.. The book is extremely well sequenced, with a huge amount of practice for students to really achieve fluency, especially when combined with the Listening. I particularly like that it is based upon a well researched and evidenced method of Second Language Acquisition. However, it is the progress that the students make that is the very best recommendation. My current year 8 students are achieving well and feel successful. .
by MFL teacher
We are so grateful to the authors for making this fab workbook as it is packed with hundreds of engaging tasks that learners can do independently. It is useful for class work, homework or remote learning and it saves us a lot of time in creating resources! Merci.
by Darren
Great value for money considering just how much is in there – nearly 200 pages of activities! Thanks so much!