FRENCH SENTENCE BUILDER - GCSE REVISION

<p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">This book is meant as a revision resource for GCSE French. It can be used independently by students as well as for teacher-directed classroom practice. It contains 16 units which focus mainly on the themes: myself, family and relationships, daily activities, my role model, hobbies and leisure.</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Each unit consists of a knowledge organiser recapping 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:</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Pre-reading tasks (activation of prior knowledge and pre-teaching)</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">In-reading tasks (intensive exploitation of texts)</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Post-reading tasks (consolidation)</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Output (pushed-output tasks)</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Consistent with Dr Conti's E.P.I. approach, each of the 16 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.</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">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.</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Table of contents</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">1 Introducing yourself</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">2 Describing yourself, your family and friends</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">3 Talking about your hobbies and interests</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">4 Describing a typical day in school</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">5 Describing what you do after school</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">6 Talking about a typical weekend</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">7 Talking about what you did last weekend</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">8 Talking about when you were younger</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">9 Discussing the qualities of a good friend</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">10 Describing the qualities of a good partner</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">11 Saying why you don't get along with people</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">12 Saying why I get along with people</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">13 Saying why I argue with my parents</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">14 Discussing why couples break up</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">15 Talking about a person you admire</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">16 Bringing it all together - Parts 1-5</strong></p>