Vistazos Listening Comprehension

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!

A multi-part telenovela which presents the vocabulary, grammatical structures and functions of Spanish in a natural, conversational way, emphasizing comprehension through context and actions. Tells the story of Raquel Rodriguez, an attorney from Los Angeles, who is hired by an aging Mexican industrialist to investigate a long-buried secret about his past. Her quest takes her to Spain, Argentina and Puerto Rico.

Este libro incluye una serie de actividades divertidas, presentadas de forma lúdica, para reforzar los conocimientos que los niños y las niñas han aprendido durante el curso. Las actividades, en la mayoría de los casos, se presentan en doble página, sirviendo la página de la izquierda de motivación o ayuda en la comprensión del trabajo propuesto en la página de la derecha. Contiene pegatinas.

Palabras clave: construcciones partitivas con variable de sumas, construcciones partitivas con variable de particiones, articulo partitivo, clitico ne, sintaxis y semántica. Este libro está concebido como un análisis sintáctico y semántico de la partitividad nominal y está dirigido a las personas interesadas en el análisis comparativo y contrastivo del italiano y del español. El estudio parte del marco teórico de la semántica y la sintaxis formal (Belletti 1988; Bosque 1996, 2000; Chierchia 1997, 1998, 2010; Leonetti 2011; Link 1983, 1995, 1998; Partee 1987, 1988). Los datos objeto...

Designed to help the reader become more proficient at communicating in Spainsh about the tourist trade and the hospitality industry.

The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961). It focuses on the so-called war magazines in Spain on the Republican side (No Veas, Trincheras, and LEsquella de la Torratxa,among others) and the Francoist side (Vértice and La Ametralladora). In the part devoted to Cuba, the analysis covers the newspaper Revolución and the avant-garde humour magazine El Pitirre, which ran simultaneously to the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución and...