Auténtico

"Auténtico is a comprehensive Spanish language curriculum for middle grades and high school. It immerses students in authentic Spanish language and cultural experiences through text, video, audio, and online learning. Frequent exposure to authentic resources increases engagement, improves reading proficiency, and gives students confidence to take learning beyond the classroom. Auténtico meets ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages, providing a powerful link between communication and culture"--Publisher.

An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency. Entrevistas sets itself apart from other first-year Spanish texts through the integration and treatment of authentic (real) speech samples in the text, video, audio, and website.

This three-stage new edition of this Spanish course for beginners leads to public examinations. Experienced practitioners and users of !Vaya! have been consulted and their suggestions have been incorporated into this new edition. It has been written to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum and the 5-14 Guidelines. Stages 1, 2 and 3 of !Vaya! Nuevo should prepare students for GCSE/Key Stage 4 examinations and Standard Grade.

Students' Book: Making extensive use of authentic materials, the eight sections are based on themes of Spanish contemporary life. A general introduction, in English, covers developments in Spain since the death of Franco, whilst each theme is set in context with a short individual English introduction. There is also a cassette to accompany this book.

"Cuando a Tamara la llevan de visita a donde abunda el arte, se muestra fascinada por tanta belleza; hasta que ocurre algo inesperando. Ella descubre aquel extraño cuadro que trastornará esa apacible reunión."--Back cover.