Mujeres de hoy

The Workbook Activities section, correlated with the text lessons, offers: An array of writing activities that reinforce the structures and vocabulary Reading comprehension passages The Laboratory Activities section accompanies the Lab Audio CD Program, and includes: listening, speaking, and writing practice pronunciation exercises textbook dialogues The Video Activities section accompanies the ¡Hola amigos! video, and includes: Preparacin pre-viewing activities Comprensin post-viewing comprehension Ampliacin post-viewing expansion

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...

Manual-guía de la principal y actual fraseología tópica castellana, con lugares comunes, locuciones inertes, símiles manidos, metáforas muertas, modismos trillados, bordones conversacionales, colocaciones hueras y partículas expletivas; cómo identificarlos, evitarlos y, quizá, erradicarlos; documentados históricamente con citas históricas y periodísticas.

Esta obra colectiva recoge buena parte de las comunicaciones y las ponencias presentadas en el XVII Coloquio de la APFUE, la Asociación de Profesores de Francés de la Universidad Española que ha trocado recientemente su denominación por la de AFUE (Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española); cambio motivado, en opinión –expresada mayoritariamente– de sus miembros, por entender que el término francesistas refleja mejor al conjunto de los universitarios que se dedican a los Estudios Franceses en España, tanto en la docencia como en la investigación. El volumen da...