French Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part III (The Language Gym - Sentence Builder)

This book has been designed as a resource to use in conjunction with our E.P.I. approach and teaching strategies. Our course favours flooding comprehensible input, organising content by communicative functions and related constructions, and a big focus on reading and listening as modelling. The aim of this book is to empower the pre-intermediate to intermediate learner with linguistic tools - high-frequency structures and vocabulary - useful for real-life communication. TERM 1 1 Talking about a past holiday: where we went & stayed 2 Talking about a past holiday: what we did & our opinion of it 3 Back to reality: describing a typical day in the present, preterite & near future RP Midpoint retrieval practice – Term 1 4 Describing a typical day at school 5 *OPTIONAL: Talking about when I went to Le Carnaval de Nice QS End of Term 1: Question Skills BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER AND FLUENCY GAMES TERM 2 6 Talking about yesterday after school 7 Talking about what I did last weekend RP Midpoint retrieval practice – Term 2 8 Talking about a recent outing to the cinema with friends 9 Talking about a birthday party we went to 10 *OPTIONAL: Making plans for next weekend QS End of Term 2: Question Skills BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER AND FLUENCY GAMES TERM 3 11 What jobs my family & I do, likes and dislikes 12 My dreams and aspirations: my life plans RP Midpoint retrieval practice – Term 3 13 Talking about celebrities & role models: their journey to success 14 My summer holiday & back-to-school plans QS End of Term 3: Question Skills BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER AND FLUENCY GAMES * Units marked with an asterisk are optional It contains 14 macro-units which concern themselves with a specific communicative function, such as ‘Saying what you and others do in your free time’, ‘Describing our daily routine in the past tense’, ‘Talking about a recent cinema trip’, or ‘Talking about our dreams and aspirations’. Each unit includes: a sentence builder modelling the target constructions; a set of listening activities to model and input-flood the target language a set of vocabulary building activities which reinforce the material in the sentence builder; a set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text; a set of translation tasks aimed at consolidation through retrieval practice; a set of writing tasks targeting essential writing micro-skills such as spelling, functional and positional processing, editing and communication of meaning. a “Bringing it all together” section to recycle and interleave the target language seen in previous units At the end of each term, there is also an End of Term - Question Skills unit. These units are designed to model asking and answering the key questions which have been studied throughout the term. This is also an additional opportunity for structured production as students move towards routinising the language and producing spontaneous speech by the end of the term. Listening files These can be accessed by going to language-gym.com/listening – access is free, and you can also share this link with students if you want to set a listening homework. Language Gym & Sentence Builders websites Please note that both The Language Gym and SentenceBuilders.com websites are ideal supplements to this booklet. Both websites recycle every single lexical and structural item found in this book many times over via self-marking vocabulary and reading workouts, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful verb trainer.