Avance! Intermediate Spanish

This intermediate Spanish program emphasizes skill building through five coordinated components: grammar, literary readings, cultural readings, an activities manual, and a workbook/lab manual. The core text provides a comprehensive review of grammar and a communicative, interactive focus with realia, class polls, and storytelling activities. The literary reader contains essays, short stories, plays, and poetry from some of the major authors of the Hispanic world. The cultural reader provides students with a broad overview of Hispanic culture and society while helping them to develop reading...

Set in the restaurant of a fictional London hotel, "Ready to Order" provides language training for students working in the challenging food and beverage industry. The text s 12 units use the storyline and dialogues to present and practice basic functions, vocabulary, and grammar.Learning, culture, and language tips provide useful examples in context.Glossary includes all key vocabulary from the text plus other essential industry terms, designed for students to translate terms into their native language.An Audiocassette contains all the model dialogues used in the student coursebook.Teacher s...

This rich textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the principal concepts and thematic areas of Spanish pragmatics. It is aimed at advanced students of Spanish -- upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students -- who need to hone their language skills for contextually sensitive use of the language. Written entirely in Spanish, with Spanish examples, this volume introduces basic pragmatics, methods of analysis, and new thematic areas such as language and the press and globalization. Theoretical explanations combine with practical exercises in each chapter to help students...

Seminar paper del año 2005 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1,3, Universität Osnabrück, Materia: El teatro en Espana en el siglo XX, 11 Citas bibliográficas, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Antonio Buero Vallejo fue uno de los más grandes y famosos escritores del teatro espanol del siglo XX. Vivió durante un tiempo, en el cual Espana sufrió bajo dos dictaduras y bajo la Guerra Civil. Buero Vallejo experimentó las restricciones intelectuales y corporales en carne propia. Además vio como la Segunda República fracasó y como se instaló lentamente...

Transición is an intermediate to advanced Spanish language textbook which focuses on the transition to democracy in Spain after Franco's regime. The textbook helps students to build critical thinking skills and to analyze unfamiliar topics through an engaging variety of authentic readings, guided discussions, and writing activities on Spain's recent history. Each chapter incorporates an episode of Cuéntame cómo pasó, a Spanish TV series, which is included on DVD. This book fits the needs of students who are interested in Spanish as well as political science, international relations, or...