Audioscript to accompany Destinos

This new Beginning Spanish text is a brief version of the successful ¿Sabías que…?, perfectly designed for those programs that are interested in an innovative task-based approach but whose curriculum necessitates a briefer text.

This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based (requiring students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks) and content-based, including readings from a variety of disciplines. ¿Sabías que...? represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten's methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (a natural companion volume for instructors using this text). The new edition is accompanied by a new CD-ROM, a new Online Learning Center, and more!

"This volume (written entirely in Spanish, with English abstracts) contains 17 studies on a variety of aspects of Spanish in the United States, including topics such as: a socio-demographic analysis of the US Hispanic population, bilingual first language acquisition of English and Spanish, cross-generational maintenance of Spanish, steps toward a dialectology of US Spanish, dialect contact in the United States, conceptual convergence with English in the speech of US Hispanics, Spanglish as an identity marker, language policies in the US health delivery system to Hispanics, and several...

Forty-seven reading passages from the world of journalism and advertising, on a wide variety of topics, suitable for beginning and intermediate students of Spanish and for native speakers who need remedial reading.

"Los animales, empezando por la araña, se van preparado para un viaje. Piensan en las cosas que precisan: abrigo (los animales cuyo nombre empiece por la A), bolso (los animales con la B), crema para el Sol (los animales con la C)... Cuando cada animal está listo, llama por sus amigos (Abeja llama por la avispa, por la Azor, por la Araña...) y van tomando asiento... Así pasa con todas las letras del alfabeto, hasta que al final... empieza a llover. Se descubre al final del cuento que se trata del ARCA DE NOÉ. La idea es que el animal principal de cada página esté configurado,...

Text of a speech given November 27, 1853 in Madrid, on the occasion of Baralt's acceptance to the Real Academia Española.