Viva la gramatica!
Published on 2. February 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-340-69705-4 (ISBN)
Description
A grammar reference and activity book, aimed at GCSE Spanish students. Written by the authors of "Accion Gramatica!", it provides explanations and practice of the grammar structures specified by GCSE examining boards, covering both foundation and higher levels. Each chapter deals with a specific grammatical point and is divided into three sections: "Preparados?" contains clear explanations in English with examples in Spanish; "Listos?" provides reinforcement exercises to practise what has been introduced; and "Ya!" suggests open-ended communicative activities to encourage and develop the use of language using the grammar points in question. The text should provide a grounding in grammar for students of GCSE and Standard Grade Spanish, as well as being a useful support tool and revision aid for A/S Level candidates.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Learning
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
College/higher education
Adult education
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-69705-4 (9780340697054)
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Content
People and things - nouns and articles; what are they like? - adjectives; how do they do that? - adverbs; "good", "better", "best" - comparatives and superlatives; pointing things out - demonstratives; who things belong to - possessives; counting - numbers; how big and how far? - size, weight and distance; five o'clock, 1st January - times and dates; the weather and how you feel; "he", "she", "him", "her" - subject and disjunctive pronouns; "it", "to me" - object pronouns; "the person who...", "the thing which..." - relative pronouns; asking and exclaiming - interrogatives and exclamations; "No!", "Never!", "Nobody!" - negatives; "for me", "without you" - prepositions; "para" or "por?"; when a person is the object - personal "a"; making it smaller - diminutives and other suffixes; talking about now - the present tense of regular verbs; talking about now - the present tense of irregular verbs; reflexive verbs; liking, loving and hurting - "me gusta", "me duele"; what will happen? - the future tense; what would happen? - the conditional; what you used to do or were doing - the imperfect tense; what is/was going on? - continuous tenses; what happened? - the preterite tense; what happened? - irregular verbs in the preterite tense; what were you doing when I saw you - the preterite and imperfect together; what have you done? - the perfect tense; what had already happened? - the pluperfect and other compound tenses; "doing" and "done" - gerunds and past participles; infinitives; "can", "must" and "ought"; do's and don'ts - the imperative; to be or not to be? - "ser" and "estar"; what was done? - the passive; what was done? - avoiding the passive; I want you to do that! - the present subjunctive; I wanted you to do that! - the imperfect subjunctive; the Spanish alphabet; stress, accents and punctuation; verb tables; key to exercises.