?Que te parece? (Student Edition) - James Lee,Dolly Jesusita Young,Darlene Wolf,Paul Michael Chandler

Description

This innovative Spanish text provides a comprehensive review of vocabulary and grammar for a two-semester intermediate Spanish course. Organized around six engaging units, ?Que te parece? offers students a diversity of topics and perspectives to encourage critical thinking and inspire collaboration and discussion. In addition, literary selections in each unit help improve students? reading comprehension abilities and also serve to help students read literature thereby providing a bridge to upper division literature courses.

Key Features

The lesson structure has been simplified thus making the book more user friendly and easier for students and professors alike to follow. Each unit contains four lessons and now follows a systematic structure: the first two lessons emphasize vocabulary, grammar, and communicative activities; the third lesson presents art and literature; and the fourth, review and composition.

The presentation of vocabulary in the text has been reduced and is accompanied by definitions. It is also presented in a table rather than graphically represented as in the first edition.

Unit 3, the Environment, now precedes, Unit 4, Television.

Overall, the activities have been modified for easier classroom implementation.

Based on reviewer feedback, two new readings replace the previous ones in Units 1 and 5. There are a total of six readings in the text.

The Galeria del arte now features four paintings (the first edition featured five or six) to allow for a more aesthetically pleasing presentation and a more focused discussion in the art and literature chapter ending activity.

The text?s design has been completely revised resulting in a more open and user-friendly presentation.

The ?Que te parece? feature has been altered to initiate every Ideas para explorar before the activity (in the first edition the feature followed the activity).

A new feature, Portafolio cultural at the end of every unit contains optional, open-ended activities based on a wide variety of media: video (text-specific), television, movies, music, art and literature, and the WWW. These activities provide great ideas for a unit ending or semester ending project.

A brand new text-specific, interactive CD-ROM will enable students to learn more about the culture of the Spanish-speaking world with a focus on art and literature.

A new documentary-style video offers authentic footage thematically linked to each unit. The video is integrated in the Portafolio cultural feature.

A new website offers additional student and instructor resources with a cultural emphasis.

?Que te parece? is highly innovative yet extremely practical in its task-based approach. Rather than asking students to do activities that are contrived or have no context, ?Que te parece? asks students to use their Spanish to complete specific - and practical - goals or tasks.

A logical follow-up to ?Sabias que??, but not mandatory, ?Que te parece? is designed for a two-semester intermediate course.

The grammar coverage in ?Que te parece? provides a comprehensive review of first-year grammar topics, then expands upon a given point as appropriate.

The text and workbook together offer a well-rounded package: the text is largely suited to in-class communicative activities while the workbook offers out-of-class language practice with more focused drill and practice.

The activities in ?Que te parece? are unique in that students must understand what they mean in order to complete them. There is no purely mechanical practice (substitution drills, etc.) here.

?Que te parece? is organized into six thematic units: Communication and culture; religion and popular beliefs; the environment; television; human rights, liberty, the church and state, sexism, racism, and censorship; and cultural perspectives and images. Through this diversity of topics, students receive a wide range of perspectives of the world in which they live in. This real world approach fosters critical thinking as well as an opportunity to discuss and share ideas as students delve deeper into the Spanish-speaking world.

Table of Contents

Leccion preliminar: Para empezar
Ideas para explorar: Caracteristicas personales
Adjective Agreement
Ideas para explorar: !Vamos a conocernos!
Word Order
Ideas para explorar: El horario y la rutina
Present Tense of Regular and Stem-Changing Verbs Unidad 1: El lenguaje y la comunicacion Leccion 1: Como nos comunicamos
Ideas para explorar: El lenguaje corporal
Estar
Ideas para explorar: Hablar usando frases hechas
Definite Articles
Ideas para explorar: De dos idiomas a uno
Future Tense Leccion 2: El espa?ol en los Estados Unidos
Ideas para explorar: Por que se aprende el espa?ol
Future with ir
Ideas para explorar: El biculturalismo
Ser
Ideas para explorar: Los paises de habla espa?ola
Comparisons Leccion 3: Literatura y arte
, por Marco Denevi Leccion 4: Repaso y composicion Unidad 2: Las creencias populares Leccion 5: Las creencias populares
Ideas para explorar: La buena y la mala suerte
Present Perfect
Ideas para explorar: La maldicion y la bendicion del numero 13: Perspectiva global
Preterite
Ideas para explorar: Los ni?os y las supersticiones
Imperfect Leccion 6: La ciencia y lo anticientifico
Ideas para explorar: Las ciencias adivinatorias
Present Subjunctive
Ideas para explorar: La ciencia y la suerte
More on the Imperfect
Ideas para explorar: El porque de las creencias anticientificas
Subjunctive in Adjective Clauses Leccion 7: Literatura y arte
, por Marjorie Agosin Leccion 8: Repaso y composicion Unidad 3: El medio ambiente Leccion 9: Nuestras acciones
Ideas para explorar: ?Somos una sociedad consumidora?
Gustar and similar verbs
Ideas para explorar: ?Necesitamos todo lo que tenemos?
Present Subjunctive in Adjective Clauses
Ideas para explorar: La mentalidad antiderrochadora
Informal Commands Leccion 10: El mundo en que vivimos
Ideas para explorar: La situacion actual
Passive with ser
Ideas para explorar: La deforestacion
Subjunctive in Noun Clauses
Ideas para explorar: Los pesticidas
Formal Commands Leccion 11: Literatura y arte
, por Ernesto Cardenal Leccion 12: Repaso y composicion Unidad 4: La television Leccion 13: La television en nuestra sociedad
Ideas para explorar: ?Por que ves la television?
Object Pronouns
Ideas para explorar: La programacion
Present Subjunctive in Evaluative Statements
Ideas para explorar: La television y los ni?os
Subjunctive of Interdependence (Adverbial Conjunctions) Leccion 14: La programacion
Ideas para explorar: Las imagenes presentadas en la television
The pronoun se
Ideas para explorar: Los avances tecnologicos televisivos
Conditional Tense
Ideas para explorar: La identidad nacional
Contrary-to-Fact Statements Leccion 15: Literatura y arte
, por Rosario Castellanos Leccion 16: Repaso y composicion Unidad 5: La libertad y la falta de libertad Leccion 17: La libertad, la censura y la iglesia y la politica
Ideas para explorar: La libertad
Review of the Conditional
Ideas para explorar: La censura
Review of the Subjunctive in Adjectival Clauses
Ideas para explorar: La iglesia y la politica
Review of the Preterite and Imperfect Leccion 18: El sexismo, el racismo y los derechos humanos
Ideas para explorar: El sexismo
Subjunctive in Noun Clauses
Ideas para explorar: El racismo
Verbs That Take Specific Prepositions
Ideas para explorar: Los derechos humanos
Review of impersonal and passive se Leccion 19: Literatura y arte
, por Alvaro Menendez Leal Leccion 20: Repaso y composicion Unidad 6: Perspectivas e imagenes culturales Leccion 21: Imagenes culturales
Ideas para explorar: Ascendencia e identidad
Pronominalized Definite Articles
Ideas para explorar: Los estereotipos
Review of Object Pronouns
Ideas para explorar: Simbolos e imagenes
Review of Preterite Leccion 22: Perspectivas culturales
Ideas para explorar: Tres grandes civilizaciones indigenas
Pluperfect (Pluscuamperfecto)
Ideas para explorar: Perspectivas desde el Sur
Conditional + Past Subjunctive in if Clauses
Ideas para explorar: El contacto entre culturas
Future of Probability Leccion 23: Literature y arte
, por Nicolas Guillen Leccion 24: Repaso y composicion