Vistazos Listening Comprehension

Sol y viento: En breve is an exciting new film-based introductory Spanish program that seamlessly integrates the feature-length film Sol y viento into the instructional and learning experience for both students and instructors. This brief version of Sol y viento: Beginning Spanish (McGraw-Hill, 2005) presents a briefer text that is easily managed for programs with fewer contact hours or as an intensive high beginner course. The movie Sol y viento, created specifically for beginning language learners, was filmed on location in Chile, Mexico, and the United States. The film tells the story of a ...

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.

Basada en una noticia real que apareció en un periódico, Federico García Lorca escribe una pieza magistral, Bodas de Sangre, en la que la pasión convierte el amor y el honor familiar en lujuria y deslealtad el mismo día de la boda de dos grandes fortunas. Based on a real piece of news that appeared at a newspaper, Bodas de Sangre by Federico García Lorca is a masterly play in which passion turns love and family honour into lust and disloyalty the same day of the wedding of two great fortunes.

Accompanied by audio exercises and downloadable mini-dialogs for practice in usage and review, offers 555 fully conjugated verbs, current idioms and expressions for each verb, extended usage examples, and more than 2,500 verbs cross-referenced to conjugation models.

Qué es el discurso? Cómo se ha desarrollado el nuevo campo interdisciplinario de los estudios del discurso? Cuáles son las estructuras lingüísticas propias del discurso? Cuáles, las estructuras de otra índole? Cómo se genera, se comprende y se recuerda en la mente lo hablado y lo escrito? Cuál es la interacción existente entre estos distintos procesos mentales? El discurso como estructura y proceso explica cómo se organiza el discurso, cuál es la relación entre la forma discursiva y el sentido, y cuáles son las funciones del estilo y de la retórica en el contexto de la...

Designed for more advanced introductory-level students, Spanish for Communication develops the basic language skills necessary for successful communication in everyday situations. At the beginning of each lesson, a realistic dialogue provides the context for the introduction of grammar and vocabulary, which is then reinforced through questions, situational roleplays, and realia-based activities and is correlated to Basic Spanish Grammar.