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The book contains 19 macro-units which concern themselves with specific communicative functions such as ‘Describing people’s appearance and personality’, ‘Comparing and contrasting people’, ‘Saying what you like and dislike’ or ‘Saying what you and others do in your free time.’ 

Each unit includes:

1. a sentence builder modelling the target constructions;
2. a set of vocabulary building activities which reinforce the material in the sentence builder;
3. a set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;
4. a set of translation tasks aimed at consolidation through retrieval practice;
5. a set of writing tasks targeting essential writing micro-skills such as spelling, functional and positional processing, editing and communication of meaning.

In addition to the macro units, there are micro units to help you to implement lots of systematic recycling and interleaving, two techniques that allow for stronger retention and transfer of learning. These micro units include units on grammar, question-skills, revision quickies, and self-tests. The self-tests are divided into two sections, one for less confident and one for more confident learners. 

Unit Titles

Unit 1:  Talking about my age

Unit 2:  Saying when my birthday is

Unit 3:  Describing hair and eyes

Unit 4:  Saying where I live and am from

Unit 5:  Talking about my family members, saying their age and how well I

            get along with them

Unit 6:  Part 1 Describing myself and another family member

             Part 2 Describing my family and saying why I like/dislike them

Unit 7:  Talking about pets

Unit 8:  Saying what jobs people do, why they like/dislike them and where  

            they work

Unit 9:  Comparing appearance and personality

Unit 10: Saying what’s in my school bag/classroom/describing colour.

Unit 11: Talking about food likes & dislikes – Part 1 Reasons; Part 2   

             Mealtimes

Unit 12: Talking about food likes & dislikes – Part 2 Mealtimes

Unit 13: Talking about clothes and accessories I wear how frequently and

             when

Unit 14: Saying what I and others do in our free time

Unit 15: Talking about the weather and free time

Unit 16: Talking about my daily routine

Unit 17: Describing my house – location and what I like/dislike about it

Unit 18: Saying what I do at home, how often, when and where

Unit 19: Talking about future plans for holidays

For those of you who use https://www.sentencebuilders.com, resources from the sentence builders in each unit of the Indonesian Sentence Builder book have been uploaded to the Sentence Builder website.

The book is available to order from Language International Bookshop (Intext), Amazon Australia, and Book Depository.

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