Catalan Sentence Builders

<h4>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.</h4><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Each unit includes:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>1) A </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>sentence builder</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> modelling the target constructions;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>2) A set of </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>vocabulary building activities</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>3) A set of </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>narrow reading texts</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>4) A set of retrieval-practice </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>translation tasks</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>5) A set of </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>writing tasks</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling lexical retrieval syntax editing and communication of meaning.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Based on the </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Extensive Processing Instruction (E.P.I.)</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> 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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sentence Builders - Online Versions</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Please 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).</span></p>