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This speaking booklet has been designed as an accompaniment to French Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part 1. It is divided into 15 units, which perfectly match the content of the original French Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part 1 book. Each unit includes a sentence builder modelling the target constructions and then a series of tried and tested Conti EPI speaking games, sequenced so as to pose a gradually increasing degree of challenge. The speaking activities included are: Oral Ping Pong Find Someone Who No Snakes No Ladders Staircase Translation Faster! Fast & Furious Communicative Drills Fluency Cards Things in Common Trapdoor Detectives & Informants Information Gap TasksThe activities are devised so as to scaffold oral communication by gradually moving from highly structured tasks to semi-structured ones. For best results, we recommend using this book to use in conjunction with the E.P.I. approach.

This book is meant as a revision resource for GCSE French. 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.

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 French 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.

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 is the answer booklet for "Italian Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach Primary" by Gianfranco Conti and Dylan Viñales.Italian Primary Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 55 years of extensive classroom experience between the three, both in 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.

This is the answer booklet for the SECOND EDITION - "German Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach - Beginner to pre-intermediate" by Gianfranco Conti, Dylan Viñales and Thomas Weidner. Edited by Isabelle Porter & Martin Ringenaldus.

This is the answer and transcript booklet for "Spanish Sentence Builder Spanish - Triology 1 " by Gianfranco Conti and Dylan Viñales.The Spanish Sentence Builder Triology is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 55 years of extensive classroom experience between the three, both in 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.

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.

Arabic Primary Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at younger learners, co-authored by six modern languages educators with over 90 years of extensive classroom experience between the six, both in the UK and internationally; including over 20 years of experience in primary contexts. This 'no-frills' book contains 9 units of work. The purpose is for students to learn the alphabet, practise reading and writing the Arabic script and communicate basic phrases about their name, age and how they are feeling. This book is primarily aimed at students with zero level of Arabic but can also be used to consolidate previous knowledge. Each unit includes: - a focus on different parts of the alphabet, such as: - Vowels - Sukoon - Nunation - Stretched vowels - Double consonants - Sun & moon letters - a set of activities designed to aid in Arabic alphabet recognition and production - explanations of the rules that are needed in order to read, and opportunities to practise these - a set of Listening-As-Modelling activities to train decoding skills, sound awareness, speech-segmentation, lexical-retrieval and parsing skills; 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 section and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over.The audio tracks for all listening activities can be accessed for free within the AUDIO section of the website: www.language-gym.com/listening

Italian Primary Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at younger learners (7 to 11 years old), co-authored by six 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 '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, introduced by questions to guide communication; 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.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. The audio tracks for all listening activities can be accessed for free within the AUDIO section of the website: www.language-gym.com/listeningPlease 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 1 is a workbook aimed at Key Stage 3 students, co-authored by two modern languages educators with over 50 years of extensive classroom experience between the two, both in the UK and internationally.This 'no-frills' book contains 15 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.

In the explosive conclusion to the Les Étrangers series, Sam finally uncovers the secrets of his past, with dramatic consequences.Back in Toulouse as the town gears up for les fêtes, Sam and his friends try to make sense of their frightening encounter at La Cassole. 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 French students, the Les Étrangersseries brings the GCSE topic areas to life through an engaging and exciting mystery in one of the most beautiful locations in France. 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 French words, this book is ideal for learners in the A2-B1 proficiency band.

This is the answer and transcript booklet for "French Sentence Builder Spanish - Triology 1 " by Gianfranco Conti and Dylan Viñales.The French Sentence Builder Triology is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 55 years of extensive classroom experience between the three, both in 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.

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. Gianfranco Conti, Ronan Jezequel & Dylan Viñales Edited by Jaume Llorens, Paloma Lozano García & Inés G¿owacka 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. Please note that both The Language Gym and SentenceBuilders.com websites are ideal supplements to this book. Both websites recycle every single lexical and structural item found in this book many times over via selfmarking vocabulary and reading workouts, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful verb trainer.

This short stories collection is a hilarious look at life as a middle aged Kenyan trying very hard to balance life. You will laugh out loud because you can relate to the That Ka Age stories that cut across ages 20- 60, because in the end, we are all just trying to make sense of this life. Some stories like December Holidays, Joy Bringers and The Cattle Dip Tour poke fun at family relations, how we sometimes put up a show for each other but not fooling anyone. These stories started as weekly WhatsApp status updates that have now gained more than 100 weekly readers. "Your stories are very vividly relatable with a wrought sense of humour especially the native expressions..and the simplicity in storytelling..." Steve, Steve' Cabin- Nanyuki. Your stories are honest, vivid and unapologetically Kenyan, but with the elegance and poise of Austen.- Kennie, Mstadi.com.Gathoni is a Creative from Endarasha, Kenya. Her business articles, lifestyle opinions, short stories and poetry have appeared in over 10 publications including Commerce and Industry, Business Post and Construction News Magazines. She has also written for The Standard and The People Daily, as well as BBC Radio Africa. When she is not writing, she is planting succulents and feeding stray cats.

This is the answer booklet for "Chinese Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach" by Gianfranco Conti and Dylan Viñales.Chinese Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 50 years of extensive classroom experience between the two, both in China, 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.

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.

Yuki, a spirited but innocent Japanese student, arrives in rural Spain excited to immerse herself in the Spanish way of life. She is quickly bewitched by the passion and excitement of the local culture but soon learns that beneath the colourful Iberian flair, there are secrets that threaten to tear apart this charming community. Befriending a group of local gitanos, 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?El Lado Equivocado 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.Written for, and with input from, GCSE students, El Lado Equivocado, is the ideal accompaniment to the GCSE course.Yuki, a spirited but innocent Japanese student, arrives in rural Spain excited to immerse herself in the Spanish way of life. She is quickly bewitched by the passion and excitement of the local culture, but soon learns that beneath the colourful iberian flair, there are secrets that threaten to tear apart this charming community. Befriending a group of local gitanos, 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?El Lado Equivocado 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.Written for, and with input from, GCSE students, El Lado Equivocado, is the ideal accompaniment to the GCSE course.

Learn to cook 12 popular recipes with the internationally renowned and fun-loving Chef Jean! Each chapter contains a short history, ingredients & measures, a step-by-step method, top tips from Chef Jean & a space for students to write guided reflections after cooking.  Éclair au chocolat  Pâtes "Carbo" en araignées  Cookies aux Smarties  Lasagnes au poulet  Fondant au chocolat  Cupcake d'Halloween  Pizza Margherita  Mille-feuilles à la vanille  Croissant saucisse béchamel  Quiche aux champignons  Pavlova  Homme de pain d'épices

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 language-gym@piefke-trading.com 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 is the WORKBOOK for Extranjeros 1A teenage boy wakes up lying on the hot cobbles of a Toledo street. With no memory of who he is, nor why he is in Spain, he sets out on a quest to discover his own identity and purpose. Following a trail of tantalising clues through the picturesque backstreets of Toledo, he meets a cast of colourful characters, from the charming Valentina and the mysterious Hassan, to the menacing and elusive Álvaro.In the first part of a four-book series, our protagonist searches for himself, but will he be happy with the person that he finds?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. For further consolidation we recommend the accompanying activities workbook which provides a wide range of engaging word- and grammar-focused tasks designed to engage the learner at various level of processing of the text, i.e.: spelling, word-/phrase-recognition, grammar, syntax, meaning and discourse building.

This is the answer booklet for "French Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach Pre Intermediate to Intermediate" by Gianfranco Conti and Dylan Viñales.French Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 55 years of extensive classroom experience between the three, both in 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.

This is the answer booklet for "French Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach" by Gianfranco Conti and Dylan Viñales.French Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 55 years of extensive classroom experience between the three, both in 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.

This is the answer booklet for "Spanish Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach Pre Intermediate to Intermediate" by Gianfranco Conti and Dylan Viñales.Spanish Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 55 years of extensive classroom experience between the three, both in 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.

This is the answer booklet for "Spanish Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach Beginner to Pre - Intermediate" by Gianfranco Conti and Dylan Viñales.Spanish Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 55 years of extensive classroom experience between the three, both in 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.

Les Objets Perdus is a story about friendship, resilience and finding the value in the things we take for granted. Written for, and with input from, GCSE French students, Les Objets Perdus is the ideal accompaniment to the GCSE French course.16-year-old Joanna has run away to France looking for freedom and independence. Arriving in Paris, she is looking forward to enjoying good food and experiencing the French culture. When she loses her money, her passport, and her bag, however, she finds herself alone and hungry in a chaotic and intimidating city. But a chance encounter with the enigmatic Michel, and his temperamental cat, Madame de Pompadour, leads her to unexpected adventures and the chance to look at life from a different angle.Will Michel help Joanna to find her feet? And will Joanna learn how this kind, educated man ended up living on the streets?

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.

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 Côté 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 RÉCITS series runs parallel to and complements ÉTRANGERS. 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 language-gym@piefke-trading.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 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.

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.

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.