Que Te Parece?: Studnet Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-07-365519-2 (ISBN)
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.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Spanish
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-365519-2 (9780073655192)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
James F. Lee | Darlene F. Wolf | Dolly,J. Young
'Que Te Parece?: Student Edition
Book
12/1995
McGraw Hill Higher Education
€98.50
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Persons
James F. Lee is Professor of Spanish, Director of Language Instruction, and Director of the Programs in Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. His research interests lie in the areas of second language reading comprehension, input processing, and exploring the relationship between the two. His research papers have appeared in a number of scholarly journals and publications. His previous publications include Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (1995, McGraw-Hill) and several co-edited volumes, including Multiple Perspectives on Form and Meaning, the 1999 volume of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators. Dr. Lee is also the author of Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms (2000, McGraw-Hill). He has also co-authored several textbooks including 'Sabias que'? Beginning Spanish (2000 McGraw-Hill), 'Que te parece? Intermediate Spanish (2000, McGraw-Hill) and Ideas: Lecturas, estrategias, actividades y composiciones (1994, McGraw-Hill). He and Bill VanPatten are series editors for the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series. Dolly J. Young (Ph.D., the University of Texas) is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Tennessee. She supervises the first- and second-year Spanish programs and provides teacher training for graduate students. She has published widely in the areas of language anxiety and foreign language reading. She co-edited the first languge anxiety volume Language Anxiety: From Theory and Research to Classroom Implications, with Elaine K. Horowitz, co-wrote a supplementary Spanish reader, Esquemas, with the late Darlene F. Wolf, and co-wrote the second-year Spanish textbook 'Que te parece? with Dr. James Lee, Darlene Wolf, and Paul Chandler.
Content
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 espanol en los Estados Unidos Ideas para explorar: Por que se aprende el espanol Future with ir Ideas para explorar: El biculturalismo Ser Ideas para explorar: Los paises de habla espanola Comparisons Leccion 3: Literatura y arte A"La novia ausenteA", 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 ninos 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 A"CiriosA", 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 A"KentuckyA", 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 ninos 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 A"TelenovelaA", 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 A"Una carta de familiaA", por lvaro 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 A"Balada de los dos abuelosA", por Nicolas Guillen Leccion 24: Repaso y composicion