Polish 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, both in the UK and
internationally; including over 20 years of experience in primary contexts.
This ‘no-frills’ book contains 8 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with
graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing
activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved
throughout
Each unit includes:
• a sentence builder modelling the target constructions, introduced by
questions to guide communication;
• 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 micro-skills such as spelling, lexical
retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning.
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.
The audio tracks for all listening activities can be accessed for free within the AUDIO section of the website: www.language-gym.com/listening
Please note that the SentenceBuilders.com website is an ideal supplement to
this booklet. The website recycles every single lexical and structural item found
PART ONE Polish Sentence Builders in this book many times over via selfmarking vocabulary, listening, reading & writing games and assignments.