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...

This Spanish edition of Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas. In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women's culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a...

Canción de Navidad fue publicada por primera vez por Chapman y Hall en diciembre de 1843. Cuenta la historia del anciano avaro Ebenezer Scrooge y su transformación tras recibir la visita de Jacob Marley, su socio recientemente fallecido, y de los fantasmas de las navidades pasada, las presentes y las futuras. La novela tuvo un éxito instantáneo y los elogios de la crítica. Esta edición no es una traducción de la obra, es una reescritura con algunas partes añadidas u omitidas y adaptada para aprender español en virtud del Marco Europeo Común de Referencia para las Lenguas (MCER),...

In this book you will find two novellas in English paired with their Spanish translations. Due to the nature of translating and the differences between languages, the translations will not be an exact match to each other. Sometimes the wording between the two languages will be very similar, but in other places the wording will be quite different. You can use this book as a learning tool to comparatively study English and Spanish, learning from both the differences and the similarities. One way to use this book is to take different colored pencils to circle verbs or underline nouns and compare ...

Los vocabularios de T&P Books buscan ayudar a aprender, memorizar y repasar palabras de idiomas extranjeros. El vocabulario contiene mas de 9000 palabras comunmente usadas y organizadas de manera tematica. Aspectos claves del vocabulario: Las palabras se organizan segun el significado, no el orden alfabetico Las palabras se presentan en tres columnas para facilitar los procesos de repaso y auto-evaluacion Los grupos de palabras se dividen en pequenas secciones para facilitar el proceso de aprendizaje El vocabulario ofrece una transcripcion sencilla y conveniente de cada palabra extranjera....