Insight: Advanced: Student's Book

Drawing on authentic cultural materials ranging from thought-provoking artwork to classic literature and short contemporary films, Retratos: Arte y sociedad en Latinoamérica y España offers a fresh and inspired approach to the teaching of advanced Spanish Composition. In each of the eight thematically-organized chapters, these primary source materials are used to illustrate—to provide a “portrait” of—a historically or culturally important figure in the Hispanic world. These first-hand introductions to such personalities offer students rich opportunities to explore cultural...

Seminar paper del año 2003 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1,8, Universitat de Barcelona (Spanische Philologie), Materia: Seminar, Idioma: Español, Resumen: El siglo XIII fue de una complejidad apasionante en la historia de la literatura española. Todo el proceso de reconquista del territorio de España, tras la invasión árabe, tuvo dos aspectos negativos que retrasaron el desarrollo cultural y de las manifestaciones literarias: el primero la desconexión lógica que se produjo de España con el resto de Europa, el segundo fue el hecho de que...

Sol y viento: En breve is an exciting new film-based introductory Spanish program that seamlessly integrates the feature-length film Sol y viento into the instructional and learning experience for both students and instructors. This brief version of Sol y viento: Beginning Spanish (McGraw-Hill, 2005) presents a briefer text that is easily managed for programs with fewer contact hours or as an intensive high beginner course. The movie Sol y viento, created specifically for beginning language learners, was filmed on location in Chile, Mexico, and the United States. The film tells the story of a ...

Ideas is an intermediate or advanced reader that emphasizes the use of reading strategies to help students become more effective readers. It has a unique format, with all readings found in the six chapters of Parte I, which are designed to look like individual magazines on high interest topics such as pets, food, relations between the sexes, and so on. Reading strategies plus exercises, as well as lively activities that stimulate in-class conversation and composition topics make up Parte II. The entire text is in Spanish, including the reading strategies themselves. All readings--from...