Chinese Primary Sentence Builders: Chinese Sentence Builders - Primary (The Language Gym - Sentence Builder Books)

Chinese Primary Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at younger learners (7 to 11 years old), co-authored by five modern languages educators with over 90 years of extensive classroom experience between the five, in the UK, China and internationally; including over 20 years of experience in primary contexts.

This book is fully photocopiable but may not be scanned and shared

This ‘no-frills’ book contains 10 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, character writing practice, listening, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout.

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Each unit in the book includes:

• a sentence builder modelling the target constructions, introduced by questions to guide communication;
• a section for practising the writing of key characters (that are used in the book)
• 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.

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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.

Sentence Builders – Online Versions
Please note that all these sentence builders will be available on the Language Gym website, available to download, and editable and optimised for displaying in the classroom. This is only available for users with a Language Gym subscription, via the Locker Room section.

They are also available for users who subscribe to the SentenceBuilders.com website in the form of numerous self-marking, interactive listening, reading and writing activities based on vocab chunks + Sentence Builder sentences.

This book is fully photocopiable but may not be scanned and shared