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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

Conversar en español B1 B2 es un manual destinado a universitarios que estudian español como segunda lengua y que, habiendo adquirido las competencias comunicativas básicas, necesitan reforzar la fluidez expresiva, el léxico y la adecuación a distintas situaciones cotidianas. Está dirigido a estudiantes y profesores de los niveles B1 y B2 del Marco Común Europeo de Referencia. La obra se fundamenta en el principio de que es posible sistematizar la enseñanza de los modelos conversacionales a partir de las funciones básicas que estructuran los discursos cotidianos. Los temas propuestos ...

Comprehensive Spanish course, Cuaderno de práctica - oral and written exercises by chapter, with answers. With CD-Rom which also has video material for each chapter, plus transcripts, audio CDs and videocassette. Suitable for self-study, and developing reading, writing and listening skills.

This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...