{"product_id":"french-sentence-builders-pre-intermediate-to-intermediate","title":"French Sentence Builders: Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrench Pre-intermediate to Intermediate Sentence Builders\u003c\/span\u003e is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by two modern languages educators with over 40 years of extensive classroom experience between the two, both in the UK and internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach unit includes:\u003cbr\u003e1) A \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003esentence builder\u003c\/span\u003e modelling the target constructions;\u003cbr\u003e2) A set of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003evocabulary building activities\u003c\/span\u003e;\u003cbr\u003e3) A set of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003enarrow reading texts\u003c\/span\u003e exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;\u003cbr\u003e4) A set of retrieval-practice \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003etranslation tasks\u003c\/span\u003e;\u003cbr\u003e5) A set of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ewriting tasks\u003c\/span\u003e targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eExtensive Processing Instruction (E.P.I.)\u003c\/span\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eAlongside the macro-units you will find:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eQuestion-skills units:\u003c\/span\u003e 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; \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRevision workouts:\u003c\/span\u003e these are retrieval practice tasks aimed at keeping the previously learnt vocabulary alive. They too occur at regular intervals, after every other unit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease note that \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Language Gym language-gym.com website\u003c\/span\u003e 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 \u0026amp; listening workouts, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful Verb, Listening Trainer and Vocab Trainer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BuyBooks.ie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54362158170454,"sku":"A166045","price":33.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0552\/4327\/6339\/files\/9783949651120.jpg?v=1782566467","url":"https:\/\/www.buybooks.ie\/products\/french-sentence-builders-pre-intermediate-to-intermediate","provider":"BuyBooks.ie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}