Cambridge English Prepare! Level 6 Student's Book

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

While the city of Valencia enjoys the Las Fallas festival, Sheriff Peralta begins to receive strange reports about the disappearance of Fallas girls. From the series Español con guiones, a reader series based on original film scripts that invite intermediate learners to engage with the Spanish language in a modern and accessible context. Each reader features an original story, told using the dialogue and stage direction of a film script.

PRESENTACIÓN La colección 100 EJERCICIOS DE... ofrece a los estudiantes intermedios y avanzados de español lengua extranjera un modo completo y eficaz de resolver temas gramaticales esenciales para un dominio preciso de la lengua. Una exhaustiva ejercitación focalizada se complementa con explicaciones gramaticales breves y precisas para que los estudiantes puedan resolver en forma definitiva sus dudas frecuentes con estos temas. Esto sin duda alguna contribuye al objetivo de convertirse en hablantes fluidos y correctos de español. Cada uno de los libros que compone esta colección se...

One year just after Christmas when Ximena is thirteen, she overhears her parents talking - a conversation she is not supposed to hear. She catches the word, "father," but wonders why they are whispering? Federico is the only father Ximena has ever known since he and her mom married six years ago. Of course, she knows she has a biological father, but her mom never talks about him - and Ximena never asks. All she knows is that he is "away" and doesn't live near them. But after overhearing her parents' discussion, she starts to wonder why she has no contact with him. At the same time, too, life...