Spanish Sentence Builders Trilogy Part 3 - a Speaking Booklet

Spanish Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part III - SPEAKING BOOKLET can be used as an accompaniment to the main Spanish Sentence Builders TRILOGY - Part III 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
1 - Talking about a past holiday – where we went & where we stayed
2 - Talking about a past holiday – what we did and our opinion of it
3 - Back to reality: Describing a typical day in the present, preterite and near future
4 - A typical day in school
5 - *OPTIONAL: Talking about when I went to ‘la Tomatina’

TERM 2
6 - Talking about what ONE did yesterday
7 - Talking about where ONE went and what I did last weekend
8 - Talking about a recent outing to the cinema with friends
9 - Talking about a birthday party we went to
10 - *OPTIONAL: Making plans for next weekend

TERM 3
11 - Jobs my family and I do, likes and dislikes
12 - My dreams and aspirations: What I am going to do with my life
13 - Talking about celebrities and role models: their journey to success
14 - What I am going to do this summer and when I get back to school in the autumn

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 & Ben