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This book was conceived as a supplement to our Spanish Sentence Builders: Trilogy – Part III book. It is divided into 15 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.
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TERM 1 |
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Unit |
Title |
Main Grammar Focus |
Pop-up Grammar |
Page |
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1 |
Talking about a past holiday – where we went & stayed |
To revisit the preterite tense |
Fue vs Era |
1 |
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*AR |
Assessment Round – Unit 1 |
9 |
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*BIAT |
Bringing it all Together 1 |
10 |
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2 |
Talking about a past holiday – what we did and our opinion |
To use superlatives |
Me gustaría – conditional opinions |
12 |
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3 |
Describing a typical day |
To review the present, preterite and immediate future tenses |
To review modal verbs |
21 |
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4 |
Describing a typical day at school |
To use times and sequencers |
To review Deber & Poder |
31 |
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5 |
** OPTIONAL: Talking about when I went to la Tomatina festival |
To use weather verbs in the preterite |
To use reflexive verbs in the preterite |
41 |
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TERM 2 |
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6 |
Talking about yesterday after school |
To use regular and irregular verbs in the preterite |
To use Para |
50 |
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7 |
Talking about what I did last weekend |
To use the present participle |
To use Para |
60 |
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8 |
Talking about a recent outing to the cinema with friends |
To use the preposition de |
To use Fue and Fueron |
70 |
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9 |
Talking about a birthday party we went to |
To use indirect object pronouns |
To use Haber in the imperfect tense |
79 |
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10 |
** OPTIONAL: Making plans for next weekend |
To use a and de after the verb Ir |
To use Si clause to express a wish |
88 |
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TERM 3 |
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11 |
Talking about jobs |
Job titles in masculine/feminine forms |
To revisit opinion verbs |
98 |
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12 |
My dreams and aspirations: my life plans |
To use Querer to express future intentions |
To revisit the immediate future |
108 |
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13 |
Talking about celebrities and role models |
To use the perfect tense |
To use possessive adjectives |
117 |
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14 |
My summer holiday & back-to-school plans |
To use infinitive verb structures |
To revisit the present participle |
127 |
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* You will find an Assessment Round + a Bringing it all Together (revision & recycling from both this book and Trilogy Grammar Book – Parts I & II) section at the end of every unit. ** Units marked with an asterisk are optional. |
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This grammar book has been carefully crafted based on the following research-informed principles:
- a grammar teaching sequence should not move to production until the knowledge of the target grammar is established receptively
- the transition from the receptive to productive processing of the target grammar should be gradual and seamless
- the target grammar should be practised with vocabulary that the learners are highly familiar with in order to minimize cognitive load
- language learners should only be taught grammar structures which are highly frequent, have high surrender value and that they are developmentally ready to learn
- in order to prevent forgetting, the target grammar must be recycled several times over the weeks and months after it was first taught
- interleaving practice with two or more structures is beneficial for retention
- grammar teaching should be as multimodal as possible
- the synergy of explicit and implicit instruction is more effective than either type of instruction on its own
- automatic/fluent retrieval is a must when it comes to the most important grammatical features
It should be noted that every grammatical structure in this book is included in the new GCSE specification.