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Three self-teaching study units to gain the basics of conversational Spanish to help you communicate with Spanish-speaking students, and their parents.

Puntos de partida offers the most teacher- and student-friendly textbook on the market as well as a host of exciting new features, most notably a state-of-the-art Instructor Edition. This Instructor Edition offers more teaching apparatus than any other introductory Spanish book on the market. An enlarged trim size, extensive annotations, and other special features sets Puntos de partida apart from every book on the market, both physically and because of the breadth and quality of the marginal annotations.

"Destinado a estudiantes que, partiendo de un nivel inicial, aspiran a un dominio practico del espanol comunicativo y a un acercamiento a la cultura de los paises hispanos. En dos niveles, describe el funcionamiento de la lengua y practica cuestiones morfosintacticas atendiendo a la realidad de su uso."

This book will allow you to determine your student's level of competency with appropriate test guides. It will then guide your students to learn or improve their speaking, reading & writing skills. There are 10 thematic units, target vocabulary & 102 individual lesson plans. Ultimately you will use these tests to record & report their progress. This method has been proven successful with juvenile to adult students.