El cuento hispánico

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!

A concise and accessible history of socialist thought, including the words of the great rebel thinkers.

Coincidiendo con el vigésimo aniversario de su incorporación, en exclusividad, a Editorial Planeta, Fernando Vizcaíno Casas nos ofrece una novela que resume mejor que ninguna otra de las suyas su conocido estilo literario. Un estilo que, a lo largo de estas dos décadas, le ha supuesto el apoyo entusiasta de sus lectores, hasta permitirle superar los cuatro millones de ejemplares vendidos de su obra. En Los imposibles sueños de un señor muy de derechas confluyen las más celebradas características del autor: la ironía, la ternura, la nostalgia y la claridad expositiva. El personaje...

Complements advanced level Spanish course books by providing practice in reading and understanding longer texts. Students will also develop the vocabulary needed to understand and talk about important issues in modern Hispanic society. It encourages an analytical method of study, and the eight photocopiable self-study units are based on authentic texts dealing with topics such as 'Estereotipos culturales' and 'La biodiversidad'. Lively, interesting and carefully graded, the exercises begin with identification of key words and comprehension questions followed by detailed and precisely focused...