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Upgrade your Spanish is the ideal guide for students wanting a better grade in their Spanish exams. It offers a thirty day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve your results. In the countdown to exams, students should simply spend between 30 minutes to an hour a day with this book, and see their mark go up a grade! This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for improving your exam results: 1) Eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen; 2) Increasing and consolidating your vocabulary; 3) Moving on from school-book Spanish.

A través de una serie de ensayos escritos por autores y críticos de la talla de Vicente Quirarte, Carlos Monsiváis y José Emilio Pacheco, James Valender nos presenta el arte y el pensamiento de un hombre y poeta ejemplar, que aunque nació en Sevilla, casi podría considerarse mexicano: Luis Cernuda, el poeta español más rebelde de la generación del 27.

These CDs are recorded by native Spanish speakers and can be used on their own or to accompany the book, helping you with pronunciation and listening skills.Colloquial Spanish is easy to use and no prior knowledge of the language is required. These CDs are recorded by native Spanish speakers and will play on any audio system. The material can be used on its own or to accompany the book, helping you with pronunciation and listening skills.

LOVE In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina learns to love Petruchio only after she has learnt to be an obedient wife. Romeo and Juliet’s love is destined to end in tragedy. In Twelfth Night, love is romantic but also painful, while in Othello love turns into jealousy. And in the final story, Antony and Cleopatra’s passionate love has tragic consequences. Dossiers: The Life of William Shakespeare Courtship and Marriage in Elizabethan Times