Gianfranco Conti

Italian Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at pre-intermediate to intermediate students. It is co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 60 years of extensive classroom experience between them, both in the UK and internationally. 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: - 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. 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 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.

Polish Primary Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at younger learners (7 to 11 years old). This 'no-frills' book contains 6 units of work and is intended to be used as an introduction to Polish for absolute beginners. For best results, we recommend completing this book before attempting Polish Primary Sentence Builders - Part 1Each unit is 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, introduced by questions to guide communication; - a set of Listening-As-Modelling activities to train decoding skills, sound awareness, speech-segmentation, lexical-retrieval and parsing skills; - a set of reading 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 micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning. For orders and enquiries, please contact us at [email protected] 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. Alongside the units you will find 'No Snakes No Ladders' tasks created to practise speaking skills with an engaging and fun board game that can be photocopied and played in groups of 3 students. The audio tracks for all listening activities can be accessed for free within the AUDIO section of the website: www.language-gym.com/listening Please note that the SentenceBuilders.com website is an ideal supplement to this booklet. The website recycles every single lexical and structural item found in this book many times over via self-marking vocabulary, listening, reading & writing games and asignments.

This book is meant as a revision resource for GCSE Spanish. It can be used independently by students as well as for classroom practice. It contains 12 units which focus mainly on the themes of environment, health and career. Units start with a knowledge organiser, recapping the the target sentence patterns and lexical items, a series of receptive vocabulary building activities; a set of narrow reading texts and activities; a set of translation tasks. The tasks are graded in order to pose an increasingly demanding but manageable cognitive load and challenge and are based on Dr Conti's P. I. P. O. framework: - Pre-reading tasks (activation of prior knowledge & pre-teaching) - In-reading tasks (intensive exploitation of tasks) - Post-reading tasks (consolidation) - Output (pushed-output tasks)Consistent with Dr Conti's E. P. I. approach, each of the 12 units in the book provide extensive recycling of the target lexical items both within each unit and throughout the book, across all the dimensions of receptive and productive processing, i.e.: orthography (single letters and syllables), lexis (both words and chunks), grammar/syntax (with much emphasis on functional and positional processing), meaning and discourse. The recycling occurs through input-flooding and forced retrieval through a wide range of engaging, tried and tested, classic Conti tasks (more than 20 per unit). These include student favourites such as slalom writing, faulty translation, spot the missing detail, sentence puzzles, etc.

This resource is intended for GCSE exam revision with a focus on the consolidation of high-frequency and high-surrender-value words and lexical chunks. Since the content closely matches the vocabulary included in our Spanish GCSE Revision Workouts, "Environment, Health & Career" the two books should be used together for best results. Consistent with Dr Conti's E. P. I. approach, the design of the 'quickies' is based on the key principle that durable vocabulary learning is more likely to occur when lexical items are processed deeply, repeatedly and at every level of grain, i.e. meaning, syntax, lexicogrammar, orthography. Accordingly, each quickie recycles the key vocabulary several times over; builds word associations; elicits deeper level of cognitive investment on the part of the learners and includes tasks which involve semantic processing and others which involve a focus on collocations, colligations, grammar and spelling. In order to cater for differentiated learning, we have included two sets of quickies per unit: a foundation-level set and a higher-level set, the latter including more challenging vocabulary and tasks. Each unit ends with a productive retrievalpractice assessment which may be used to test summatively the uptake of the vocabulary practiced in each unit or merely as an extra revision tool. The revision quickie's format has been tried and tested for years, and is based on the huge success of Dr Gianfranco Conti's GCSE French and Spanish revision quickies, the most downloaded language learning resources of all times on www.tes.com. 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.

In the explosive conclusion to the Extranjeros series, Sam finally uncovers the secrets of his past with dramatic consequences. Back in Toledo as the town gears up for las fiestas, Sam and his friends try to make sense of their frightening encounter at La Almazara. But before they can act on the information they've uncovered, their lives are again thrown into jeopardy. With his friends' lives in the balance, Sam must get to the heart of the mystery surrounding his background, no matter the personal cost. Who is so desperate to keep Sam's true identity concealed? To what lengths will they go to stop Sam finally finding the truth? Will his efforts save the lives of his friends? Or should he let sleeping dogs lie? Conceived for, and with input from, GCSE Spanish students, the Extranjeros series brings the GCSE topic areas to life through an engaging and exciting mystery in some of the most beautiful locations in Spain. For orders and enquiries, please contact us at [email protected] www.language-gym.com Thanks to its parallel texts, which guarantee 100% comprehensible input at all times; the repetition of key language items; the judicious use of cognates and choice of high-frequency (top 2500 words) vocabulary this book is ideal for learners in the A2-B1 proficiency band.

This heavily revised and updated new edition of the best-selling language teacher handbook is a comprehensive introduction to research-informed classroom practice. Topics explored include: Language teaching methodsLesson and curriculum planningIntercultural understandingListening, speaking, reading and writingTeaching in the target languageVocabulary, grammar and phonicsFluency and lexicogrammarAssessmentMeeting the needs of all learnersTeaching advanced level studentsMotivationSongs and dramaSubject knowledgeLanguage teachers of any experience will be introduced to a wide range of findings fromsecond language acquisition and cognitive science research, along with a wealth of practicalclassroom ideas to enhance their practice. This new edition lays greater emphasis onlexicogrammar, fluency, intercultural understanding, meeting diverse learner needs, lesson and curriculum planning. About the first edition: "A treasure chest for every language teacher."(Languages Today, the magazine of the Association for Language Learning.)

This book is meant as a revision resource for GCSE German. It can be used independently by students as well as for classroom practice. It contains 12 units which focus mainly on the themes of environment, health and career. Units start with a knowledge organiser, recapping the the target sentence patterns and lexical items, a series of receptive vocabulary building activities; a set of narrow reading texts and activities; a set of translation tasks. The tasks are graded in order to pose an increasingly demanding but manageable cognitive load and challenge and are based on Dr Conti's P. I. P. O. framework: - Pre-reading tasks (activation of prior knowledge & pre-teaching)- In-reading tasks (intensive exploitation of tasks)- Post-reading tasks (consolidation)- Output (pushed-output tasks)Consistent with Dr Conti's E. P. I. approach, each of the 1 2 units in the book provide extensive recycling of the target lexical items both within each unit and throughout the book, across all the dimensions of receptive and productive processing, i.e.: orthography (single letters and syllables), lexis (both words and chunks), grammar/syntax (with much emphasis on functional and positional processing), meaning and discourse. The recycling occurs through input-flooding and forced retrieval through a wide range of engaging, tried and tested, classic Conti tasks (more than 20 per unit). These include student favourites such as slalom writing, faulty translation, spot the missing detail, sentence puzzles, etc.

Yuki, a spirited but innocent Japanese student, arrives in rural France excited to immerse herself in the French way of life. She is quickly bewitched by the passion and excitement of the local culture but soon learns that beneath the picturesque Occitan village, there are secrets that threaten to tear apart this charming community. Befriending a group of local gitans, she is immediately swept up in their youthful exuberance, but later learns that not everyone shares her enthusiasm for these youngsters and that passion can, at times, boil over into hostility. Can Yuki uncover the secrets that divide the town? Will her efforts to bring the residents together bring peace or bloodshed? Le Mauvais C t is a story about the excitement of experiencing a foreign culture, about broken relationships and social exclusion, and about the incredible healing power of music. Conceived for, and with input from, GCSE French students, the R CITS series runs parallel to and complements TRANGERS. Both series bring the GCSE topic areas to life through a number of engaging and exciting stories, set in some of the most beautiful locations in France. For orders and enquiries, please contact us at [email protected] Thanks to its parallel texts which guarantee 100% comprehensible input at all times; the repetition of key language items; the judicious use of cognates and choice of high-frequency vocabulary mostly drawn from the 2,500 most frequent French words, this book is ideal for learners in the A2-B1 proficiency band. The www.language-gym.com website is an ideal supplement to this booklet.

French Primary Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at younger learners (7 to 11 years old), co-authored by five modern languages educators with over 90 years of extensive classroom experience between the five, both in the UK and internationally; including over 20 years of experience in primary contexts. This book is fully photocopiable but may not be scanned and sharedThis 'no-frills' book contains 7 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, listening, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout. Each unit in the book includes: a sentence builder modelling the target constructions, introduced by questions to guide communication;a set of Listening-As-Modelling activities to train decoding skills, sound awareness, speech-segmentation, lexical-retrieval and parsing skills;a set of reading 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. ANSWERS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE AS A FREE PDF - HEAD TO LANGUAGE-GYM. COM/BOOKSBased 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. Alongside the units you will find: No Snakes No Ladders tasks created to practise speaking skills with an engaging and fun board game that can be photocopied and played in groups of 3 students. Please note that both The Language Gym www.language-gym.com and SentenceBuilders.com websites are an ideal supplement to this booklet. Our 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 vocab, listening, sentence & verb trainer.

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.

In the third part of the Les trangers series, Sam heads into the southern countryside where he believes he will solve the mystery of his past. But what other secrets will he uncover and at what cost? Under the baking French sun, the gang travel through the bone-dry hills to La Cassole, a sinister compound, once a monastery, that the locals avoid at all costs. Sam and his friends must overcome their fears to reveal La Cassole's dark secrets and shed light on Sam's life. Once inside the compound, Sam faces the wrath of the diabolical gangster, Albert, a pack of savage animals, and must then fight for his life to discover shocking information about his own family. Conceived for, and with input from, GCSE French students, the Les trangers series brings the GCSE topic areas to life through an engaging and exciting mystery in some of the most beautiful locations in FranceThanks to its parallel texts, which guarantee 100% comprehensible input at all times; the repetition of key language items; the judicious use of cognates and choice of high-frequency (top 2500 words) vocabulary this book is ideal for learners in the A2-B1 proficiency band.

In the third part of the Extranjeros series, Sam heads into the Castilian countryside where he believes he will solve the mystery of his past. But what other secrets will he uncover and at what cost? Under the baking Spanish sun, the gang travel through the bone-dry hills to La Almazara, a sinister compound, once a monastery, that the locals avoid at all costs. Sam and his friends must overcome their fears to reveal La Almazara's dark secrets and shed light on Sam's life. Once inside the compound, Sam faces the wrath of the diabolical gangster, Alvaro, a pack of savage animals, and must then fight for his life to discover shocking information about his own family. Conceived for, and with input from, iGCSE Spanish students, the Extranjeros series brings the iGCSE topic areas to life through an engaging and exciting mystery in one of the most beautiful locations in Spain. Thanks to its parallel texts which guarantee 100 % comprehensible input at all times; the repetition of key language items; the judicious use of cognates and choice of high-frequency vocabulary drawn from the 2,500 most frequent Spanish words, this book is ideal for learners in the A2-B1 proficiency band.

Spanish Primary Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner students, co-authored by four modern languages educators with over 80 years of extensive classroom experience between the four, both in the UK and internationally. This book is fully photocopiable but may not be scanned and sharedThis 'no-frills' book contains 7 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, listening, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout. Each unit in the book includes: a sentence builder modelling the target constructions, introduced by questions to guide communication;a set of Listening-As-Modelling activities to train decoding skills, sound awareness, speech-segmentation, lexical-retrieval and parsing skills;a set of reading 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.answers to all activities, including transcriptsBased 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. Alongside the units you will find: No Snakes No Ladders tasks created to practise speaking skills with an engaging and fun board game that can be photocopied and played in groups of 3 students. Please note that both The Language Gym www.language-gym.com and SentenceBuilders.com websites are an ideal supplement to this booklet. Our 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 vocab, listening, sentence & verb trainer.

This book is meant as a revision resource for GCSE Spanish. It can be used independently by students as well as for classroom practice. It contains 8 units which focus mainly on the themes of technology, media and social issues. Each unit is divided into two parts, consisting of a present and past/future tense section Units start with a knowledge organiser, recapping the the target sentence patterns and lexical items, a series of receptive vocabulary building activities; a set of narrow reading texts and activities; a set of translation tasks. The tasks are graded in order to pose an increasingly demanding but manageable cognitive load and challenge and are based on Dr Conti's P. I. P. O. framework: - Pre-reading tasks (activation of prior knowledge & pre-teaching) - In-reading tasks (intensive exploitation of tasks) - Post-reading tasks (consolidation) - Output (pushed-output tasks)Consistent with Dr Conti's E. P. I. approach, each of the 8 units in the book provide extensive recycling of the target lexical items both within each unit and throughout the book, across all the dimensions of receptive and productive processing, i.e.: orthography (single letters and syllables), lexis (both words and chunks), grammar/syntax (with much emphasis on functional and positional processing), meaning and discourse. The recycling occurs through input-flooding and forced retrieval through a wide range of engaging, tried and tested, classic Conti tasks (more than 20 per unit). These include student favourites such as slalom writing, faulty translation, spot the missing detail, sentence puzzles, etc. Please note that the Language Gym www.language-gym.com website is an ideal supplement to this booklet. Our website recycles very single lexical and structural item found in this book many times over via self-marking vocabulary and reading workbooks, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful verb trainer

Japanese Primary Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at younger learners (7-11 years old), co-authored by five modern languages educators with over 90 years of extensive classroom experience between the five, both in the UK, Japan and internationally, including over 20 years of experience in primary contexts. This 'no-frills' book contains 10 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, Character-writing practice, listening, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout. Each unit in the book includes: a sentence builder modelling the target constructions, introduced by questions to guide communication;a set of Listening-As-Modelling activities to train decoding skills, sound awareness, speech-segmentation, lexical-retrieval and parsing skills;a set of reading 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. 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. Alongside the units you will find: No Snakes No Ladders tasks created to practise speaking skills with an engaging and fun board game that can be photocopied and played in groups of 3 students. Please note that The Language Gym www.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 and reading workouts, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful vocab, listening, sentence & verb trainer.The audio tracks for all listening activities can be accessed for free within the AUDIO section of the website: www.language-gym.com/listeningThis book is fully photocopiable but may not be scanned and shared

Duitse Zinsstructuren Primair is een werkboek gericht op jonge leerlingen (7 tot 12 jaar oud), mede geschreven door zeven leraren moderne vreemde talen met samen meer dan 110 jaar uitgebreide leservaring, zowel in Nederland, het Verenigd Koninkrijk als internationaal; inclusief meer dan 20 jaar ervaring in het primair onderwijs. Dit boek 'zonder franje' bevat 10 hoofdstukken over zeer populaire thema's bomvol activiteiten voor stapsgewijze opbouw van woordenschat en lees-, vertaal-, herhaal-, oefen- en schrijfactiviteiten, die belangrijke woordenschat en lexicale patronen en structuren herhalen en afwisselen. Elk hoofdstuk bevat: een schema met zinsstructuren die constructies in de doeltaal modelleren, ingeleid door vragen om de communicatie te begeleiden;een reeks luisteren-om-te-modelleren activiteiten om decoderingsvaardigheden, geluidsbewustzijn, segmentatie van spraakklanken, lexicaal ophalen en syntactisch ontleden te trainen;een reeks leestaken die zich richten op zowel de betekenis als de structuur van de tekst;een reeks vertaaltaken gericht op consolidatie door middel van het ophalen van kennis;een reeks schrijftaken gericht op belangrijke microvaardigheden zoals spelling, ophalen van woordenschat, syntax en bewerken en communiceren van betekenis. Gebaseerd op het E. P. I. principe dat leerlingen het best leren van begrijpelijke input met veel patronen en overspoeld met de taalkundige kenmerken van de doeltaal, hebben de auteurs elke tekst en activiteit zorgvuldig ontworpen om de leerling in staat te stellen elk item vele malen opnieuw te verwerken en te produceren. Naast de hoofdstukken vind je 'Geen Slangen Geen Ladders'-taken die zijn gemaakt om spreekvaardigheid te oefenen met een boeiend en leuk bordspel dat kan worden gekopieerd en gespeeld in groepen van 3 leerlingen. De audiotracks voor alle luisteractiviteiten zijn gratis toegankelijk in het AUDIO-gedeelte van de website: www.language-gym.com/listeningDe SentenceBuilders.com website is een ideale aanvulling bij dit boek. Het gebruikt elk afzonderlijk lexicaal item en de zinsstructuren die je in dit boek aantreft vele malen opnieuw via automatisch gecorrigeerde luister-, lees- en schrijfactiviteiten.

Catalan Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by four modern languages educators with over 60 years of extensive classroom experience between them, in Spain, the UK and internationally. This 'no-frills' book contains 19 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. 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. Sentence Builders - Online VersionsPlease note that all these Catalan sentence builders are also available on the SentenceBuilders.com website, together with an extensive range of self-marking homework or class assignments, designed to practice listening, reading and writing in keeping with the EPI approach (available via subscription).