Publisher's Synopsis
ESL 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 them, in the UK, France and internationally.
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.
