French Sentence Builders Trilogy Part 1 - a Speaking Booklet

French Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part I - SPEAKING BOOKLET can be used as an accompaniment to the main French 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 1
0 - EPI REGISTER ROUTINE: Introducing oneself and asking how you are doing
1 - 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 activities

TERM 2
6 - 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 / Hacer

TERM 3
12 - Talking about my daily routine / school day
13 - Talking about weekend plans
14 - Saying what food I eat and drink – likes and dislikes
15 - 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 inside
Each 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 Tasks

As 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.

Many thanks for reading this. We hope that both you and your students will find this book useful and enjoyable.
Gianfranco, Dylan & Ronan