ESL Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by four modern languages educators with over 50 years of extensive classroom experience between them, in the UK, France and internationally. It is aimed at Spanish language students who are learning English as an additional language.
This 'no-frills' book contains 10 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:
- a sentence builder modelling the target constructions;
- a set of vocabulary building activities;
- 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 retrieval-practice translation tasks;
- a set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning.
Based on the 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. This occurs throughout each unit of work as well as in smaller grammar, vocabulary and question-skills micro-units located at regular intervals in the book, which aim at reinforcing the understanding and retention of the target grammar, vocabulary and question patterns.
By:
Dylan Viñales, Dr Gianfranco Conti Imprint: Piefke Trading Singapore Dimensions:
Height: 279mm,
Width: 216mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 445g ISBN:9783949651649 ISBN 10: 3949651640 Series:The Language Gym Pages: 186 Publication Date:05 March 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
