Dr Gianfranco Conti

French Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part 3 is a workbook aimed at Key Stage 3 students, co-authored by two modern languages educators with over 70 years of extensive classroom experience between the two, both in the UK and internationally.This 'no-frills' book contains 14 units of work on very popular themes, jampacked with graded listening activities, vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice, writing & speaking 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 listening activities to model and input-flood the target language- 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.- a "Bringing it all together" section to recycle and interleave the target language seen in previous unitsBased 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.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.

French Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part 2 is a workbook aimed at Key Stage 3 students, co-authored by two modern languages educators with over 70 years of extensive classroom experience between the two, both in the UK and internationally.This 'no-frills' book contains 13 units of work on very popular themes, jampacked with graded listening activities, vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice, writing & speaking 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 listening activities to model and input-flood the target language- 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.- a "Bringing it all together" section to recycle and interleave the target language seen in previous unitsBased 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.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.

Spanish Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part I - SPEAKING BOOKLET can be used as an accompaniment to the main Spanish Sentence Builders TRILOGY - Part 1 book, by the same authors, or as a standalone volume for any teacher wanting to stage speaking activities on the covered topics. The topics included are: TERM 10 - EPI REGISTER ROUTINE: Introducing oneself and asking how you are doing1 - Talking about my age 2 - Saying when my birthday is 3 - Saying where I live and am from 4 - *Things I like/dislike: School subjects & teachers (Optional) 5 - Things I like/dislike: Free time activitiesTERM 26 - Talking about my family members and myself + age 7 - *Describing my hair and eyes (Optional) 8 - Describing myself and another family member 9 - Comparing people's appearance and personality 10 - Describing my teachers and saying why I like them 11 - Saying what I and others do in our free time - Ir / Jugar / HacerTERM 3 12 - Talking about my daily routine / school day / 13 - Talking about weekend plans / 14 - Saying what food I eat and drink - likes and dislikes15 - Saying where I am going to go on holiday in the summer + activities food This book has been designed as a resource to use in conjunction with the E.P.I. approach and teaching strategies in a bid to scaffold oral communication by gradually moving from highly structured tasks (e.g. 'Oral Ping Pong', 'No snakes no ladders', 'Communicative drills') to semi-structured ones (e.g. 'Surveys', 'Things in Common', 'Detectives and Informants').The activities in this book should be carried out after an intensive listening and reading phase, in which the students have been flooded with highly comprehensible input containing the target vocabulary and grammar structures, thereby processing them receptively many times over.What's insideEach unit includes a sentence builder with the target constructions and vocabulary followed by a series of tried and tested Conti E.P.I. speaking games sequenced so as to pose a gradually increasing degree of challenge. The speaking games included are: Oral Ping Pong - Find Someone Who - No Snakes No Ladders - Staircase Translation - Faster -Fast & Furious - Communicative Drills -Fluency Cards - Trapdoor - Things in Common - Detectives & Informants - Information Gap TasksAs already noted, the above games are sequenced in ascending order of linguistic and cognitive challenge. The focus is on gradually building up students' fluency and autonomous competence. These games fall in the 'Structured Production', 'Routinization' and 'Spontaneity' phases in Dr Conti's MARS EARS pedagogical cycle, which is central to his E.P.I. approach.

This workbook was written to support students and teachers preparing for the GCSE Spanish exams beginning in 2026 (first teaching September 2024). It is the first of two books covering a total of 10 thematic areas. Each one of the five units in this book consists of: - Foundation Tier vocabulary building exercises plus example style Foundation Tier exam-style Reading tasks.- Higher Tier vocabulary building exercises plus Higher Tier exam-style Reading tasks. - A Grammar Focus section with explanations and practice exercises- A set of pre-speaking and writing exercises. - Exam-style photo card and role-play tasks at Foundation and Higher Tier.- Exam-style writing tasks at Foundation and Higher Tier- A bank of adaptable model sentences to help students learn material for speaking and writing.Answers are provided at the back of the book. Topics covered in Part Two: Relationships and identity The world around us School and future plans Travel and tourism Free time activities