Vistazos Listening Comprehension

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.

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 ...

Take a fresh look at Puntos – it’s everything you wanted and more than you hoped for. Puntos has offered more than a million students a solid foundation to their language studies. The new edition of Puntos maintains its pioneer approach of the development of all four skills with a strong grammar and vocabulary foundation, as well as the teacher tested activities. The new design of Puntos brings to this program the best tradition of excellence and outstanding instructor support adaptable to different teaching and learning styles. Puntos , the most successful Intro Spanish program ever, is...

Pueblos is a complete Intermediate Spanish program that systematically presents culture within the context of the historical and political forces that have shaped and continue to shape the Spanish-speaking world. Grammar, vocabulary, and content are merged in a way that emphasizes communication, cultures, comparisons, connections and communities and a comprehensive historic-to-contemporary view of the Spanish-speaking populations and civilizations. The word pueblos refers to places, settlements, civilizations, and nations, but also to groups of people who speak Spanish. Pueblos focuses on how ...

Este manual ha sido elaborado para desarrollar las cuatro destrezas lingüísticas en español como lengua extranjera, con un enfoque centrado en la interacción comunicativa y la producción de textos orales y escritos. Está dirigido a los estudiantes de nivel A2 que desean dar el siguiente paso al nivel B1 de E/LE y a los profesores que enseñan dicho nivel. Punto.C/ELE cubre los contenidos funcionales y gramaticales que el Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes estipula para el nivel B1 y está orientado al conocimiento de la cultura chilena, especialmente para quienes estudian E/LE en...

La recepción entusiasta que Rayuela recibió desde su aparición, en 1963, proyectó a Julio Cortázar a un sostenido reconocimiento internacional. Su imagen de escritor quedó por siempre asociada a las ideas de ruptura, novedad, rechazo del realismo telúrico; y su novela, al estatuto de jalón de la literatura hispanoamericana. Rayuela renovó experimentalmente los cánones de la composición novelística al aunar de manera lúdica un gesto narrativo: la fragmentación, con una heterogeneidad de lenguajes, discursos, géneros y registros que, en su entrevero, producen un efecto de...