Spanish Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach: Spanish Sentence Builders - Beginner to Pre-intermediate

This version has been fully re-checked for accuracy and re-formatted to make it even more user-friendly, following feedback after a full year of classroom use by thousands of teachers across the world. 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. 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. Each unit includes: 1) A modelling the target constructions; 2) A set of ; 3) A set of exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text; 4) A set of retrieval-practice 5) A set of targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning. Based on the 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.