French 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 ‘no-frills’ book contains 10 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.

The topics covered are: Je m'appelle, L'alphabet, Comment ça va ?, Mon anniversaire, Mon animal domestique, Mon cartable, D'où viens-tu ?, Quel temps fait-il ?, Où habites-tu ?  & Dans ma ville.

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.

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.

French Primary Sentence Builders is recommended for use with beginner students between the ages of 7 & 11 years. The audio content for the listening activities can be accessed for free online at the publisher's website.

Paperback | 164 pages | 210 x 297 mm

This product is licensed for photocopying for educational purposes by the purchasing institution but may not be scanned and shared