Spanish Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part III - Grammar Booklet

Spanish Sentence Builders: Trilogy – Part III - GRAMMAR BOOKLET has been conceived as a supplement to our Spanish Sentence Builders: Trilogy – Part III book. It is divided into 14 units, with matching Sentence Builders from the main Trilogy book. Each of the units is based around one Main Grammar Focus, which is explained and then taught via an array of engaging Conti, EPI, vocab building, translation and writing tasks. There are also additional Pop-up Grammar sections to introduce and teach other grammatical points required throughout the book. TERM 1 Unit 1 – Talking about a past holiday: where we went & stayed Grammar focus: Revisiting the preterite tense Pop-up grammar: fue vs era Unit 2 – Talking about a past holiday: what we did and our opinion Grammar focus: Using superlatives Pop-up grammar: me gustaría + conditional opinions Unit 3 – Describing a typical day Grammar focus: Reviewing the present, preterite and immediate future tenses Pop-up grammar: Reviewing modal verbs Unit 4 – Describing a typical day at school Grammar focus: Using times and sequencers Pop-up grammar: Reviewing deber & poder Unit 5 – OPTIONAL: Talking about when I went to la Tomatina festival Grammar focus: Using weather verbs in the preterite Pop-up grammar: Using reflexive verbs in the preterite TERM 2 Unit 6 – Talking about yesterday after school Grammar focus: Regular and irregular preterite verbs Pop-up grammar: Using para Unit 7 – Talking about what I did last weekend Grammar focus: Present participles Pop-up grammar: Using para Unit 8 – Talking about a recent outing to the cinema with friends Grammar focus: Using the preposition de Pop-up grammar: fue and fueron Unit 9 – Talking about a birthday party we went to Grammar focus: Indirect object pronouns Pop-up grammar: haber in the imperfect tense Unit 10 – OPTIONAL: Making plans for next weekend Grammar focus: Using a and de after the verb ir Pop-up grammar: Using si clause to express a wish TERM 3 Unit 11 – Talking about jobs Grammar focus: Masculine and feminine job titles Pop-up grammar: Revisiting opinion verbs Unit 12 – My dreams and aspirations: my life plans Grammar focus: Using querer to express future intentions Pop-up grammar: Revisiting the immediate future Unit 13 – Talking about celebrities and role models Grammar focus: Using the perfect tense Pop-up grammar: Possessive adjectives Unit 14 – My summer holiday & back-to-school plans Grammar focus: Infinitive verb structures Pop-up grammar: Revisiting the present participle It should be noted that every grammatical structure in this book is included in the new GCSE specification. If you are an EPI user: You will employ this book in the Awareness and Expansion/Explanation phases of the MARSEARS cycle. In the Awareness phase, you will simply raise your students’ awareness of which grammatical structure you want them to focus on throughout the ensuing instructional sequence; in the latter Expansion/Explanation phase you will engage in a full-blown explanation of the target structure and will use the activities to drill it in.