Temas

The philosophy of this best-selling introductory text is to emphasize communicative proficiency. Based on the Natural Approach, the text stresses the use of activities in a natural and spontaneous classroom atmosphere. In this comprehension-based approach, the development of receptive skills listening and reading precedes and forms the basis for the development of the productive skills speaking and writing. "Dos mundos" is designed so that class time can be devoted to exposing students to Spanish through the abundant activities and readings in the text, allowing the grammar explanations and...

Todo idioma en sí mismo es una historia fascinante y completa. La lengua castellana habla tanto de lo que somos como de nuestra herencia, la cual ha sido concebida con la amalgama de diversas materias culturales a través de los siglos. La evolución de todo idioma sobreviene de un cambio de creencias y costumbres, del surgimiento de mitos e tabúes, de modas que se transforman, de revoluciones culturales y tecnológicas, de estremecimientos sociales o políticos; y el ritmo de esos cambios acompaña al de las generaciones sin respetar los límites que los conservacionistas del habla...

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

INCLUDED in CengageNOW Live edition. The Workbook/Lab Manual provides practice in structures, vocabulary, reading and writing. Abundant listening comprehension practice with dialogues, simulated conversations, and pronunciation practice are included. AUTOPRUEBA self-tests at the end of each chapter test student mastery of the targeted structures and vocabulary of the language.