Vistazos: Un curso breve

This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based (requiring students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks) and content-based, including readings from a variety of disciplines. ¿Sabías que...? represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten's methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (a natural companion volume for instructors using this text). The new edition is accompanied by a new CD-ROM, a new Online Learning Center, and more!

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

Dialogamos y deliberamos con el otro antes de establecer nuestros compromisos verbales, sobre todo cuando existe el riesgo de perder el acuerdo comunicativo. Cual es el andamiaje linguistico de los enunciados prescriptivos? Que distingue a un acto verbal del "deber ser" de un imperativo y de una asercion? Que de la fuerza del compromiso esta arraigado en la estructura de la lengua? En esta obra se definen las oraciones deonticas -oraciones de compromiso- desde un punto de vista linguistico. Se estudian las estrategias discursivas del hablante para identificarse a si mismo, a su interlocutor o ...

He creado estas recetas de comidas y jugos deliciosas que disfrutará durante su embarazo y beneficiará tanto a su bebe como a usted.

Set in the restaurant of a fictional London hotel, "Ready to Order" provides language training for students working in the challenging food and beverage industry. The text s 12 units use the storyline and dialogues to present and practice basic functions, vocabulary, and grammar.Learning, culture, and language tips provide useful examples in context.Glossary includes all key vocabulary from the text plus other essential industry terms, designed for students to translate terms into their native language.An Audiocassette contains all the model dialogues used in the student coursebook.Teacher s...