SPANISH SENTENCE BUILDERS - Pre-Intermediate

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Spanish Pre-intermediate to Intermediate Sentence Builders</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by two modern languages educators with over 40 years of extensive classroom experience between the two both in the UK and internationally.</span></p><p>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.</p><p>Each unit includes:</p><p>1) A <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>2) A set of <strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>vocabulary building activities</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>;</span></p><p>3) A set of <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>4) A set of retrieval-practice <strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>translation tasks</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>;</span></p><p>5) A set of <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>Based on the <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>Alongside the macro-units you will find:</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Question-skills units:</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> 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; </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Revision workouts:</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> these are retrieval practice tasks aimed at keeping the previously learnt vocabulary alive. They too occur at regular intervals after every other unit.</span></p><p>Please note that <strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Language Gym language-gym.com website</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> 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 reading & listening workouts in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful Verb Listening Trainer and Vocab Trainer.</span></p>