Amiguitos, Tesoritos, Colores

Using the world famous Total Physical Response (known world-wide as TPR), teaching method, once again Blaine uses his exciting technique of blending physical actions with interesting story lines to get the students talking, reading, and writing. This second series of stories continues to build vocabulary while focusing on more advanced grammatical concepts common to second year language classes (i.e., use of infinitives, reflexive verbs, direct and indirect object pronouns, preterite vs. imperfect, etc.) Students are excited to tell stories and create their own

"Los animales, empezando por la araña, se van preparado para un viaje. Piensan en las cosas que precisan: abrigo (los animales cuyo nombre empiece por la A), bolso (los animales con la B), crema para el Sol (los animales con la C)... Cuando cada animal está listo, llama por sus amigos (Abeja llama por la avispa, por la Azor, por la Araña...) y van tomando asiento... Así pasa con todas las letras del alfabeto, hasta que al final... empieza a llover. Se descubre al final del cuento que se trata del ARCA DE NOÉ. La idea es que el animal principal de cada página esté configurado,...

"Filmed in various parts of Ecuador, the program offers 5-7 minutes of footage for each of the eighteen lessons in the Vistas student textbook. Each module tells the continuing story of four college students from different Spanish-speaking countries (Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, and Puerto Rico) who spend a vacation break on a bus tour of the Ecuadorian countryside with the ultimate goal of climbing a volcano."--Video container