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Que te parece? Intermediate Spanish Student Edition with Online Learning Center Bind- In Card » (3rd Edition)

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Authors: James F. Lee, D. Young, R. Bransdorfer, D. Wolf, Dolly Jesusita Young
ISBN-13: 9780072972108, ISBN-10: 0072972106
Format: Other Format
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: 3rd Edition

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Author Biography: James F. Lee

James F. Lee is the Head of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of second language reading comprehension, input processing, and exploring the relationship between the two. His research has appeared in a number of scholarly journals and publications, including the co-authored books with Alessandro Benati Second Language Processing: Theory, Problems and Possible Solutions (2007, Continuum) and Delivering Processing Instruction in Classrooms and Virtual Contexts (2007, Equinox). Other publications include the book Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms (2000, McGraw-Hill) and the co-authored book Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen, Second Edition (2003, McGraw-Hill). He has also co-authored secveral textbooks, including ¿Sabias que…? Beginning Spanish, Vistazos, ¿Qué te parece?, and Ideas: Lecturas, estrategias, actividades y composiciones. 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 ¿Qué te parece? with Dr. James Lee, Darlene Wolf, and Paul Chandler.

Rodney Bransdorfer received his Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught at Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Gustavus Adolphus College. He is currently Professor of Spanish at Central Washington University. He has presented papers at national conferences such as AATSP and AAAL. In addition to his work on the Pasajes series, he has authored or co-authored several other McGraw-Hill titles including: ¡Avance!, Second Edition (2008), ¿Qué te parece?, Third Edition (2005), the instructor's annotations for Nuevos Destinos: Spanish in Review (1998), and the instructor's annotations for Destinos: Alternate Edition (1997).

Book Synopsis

This innovative Spanish text, informed by current research on second language acquisition, provides a comprehensive review of vocabulary and grammar for a two-semester intermediate Spanish course. Organized around six engaging units, ¿Qué te parece? offers students a diversity of topics and perspectives to encourage critical thinking and inspire collaboration and discussion. Its communicative vocabulary and grammar tasks provide a smooth continuation and expansion of first-year Spanish, and act as a springboard to advanced Spanish courses. ¿Qué te parece? is also a fundamental text for students who will eventually become Spanish majors or minors.

Table of Contents

Unidad 1: El lenguaje y la comunicación

Galería de arte

Lección 1: El español y tu

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario

Gramática: Present Tense of Regular and Stem

Changing Verbs

Vocabulario: ¿Por qué se aprende español?

Gramática: Future with ir

Lección 2: El español y los Estados Unidos

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: Están en todas partes

Gramática: Estar, Ser

Vocabulario: Los países de habla española

Gramática: Future Tense

¿Qué te parece?

Composición

Proyecto cultural

Unidad 2: Las creencias populares

Galería de arte

Lección 3: La suerte

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: La buena y la mala suerte

Gramática: Present Perfect Tense

Vocabulario: Perspectivas globales

Gramática: Preterite

Lección 4: La ciencia y lo anticientífico

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: Lo científico y lo anticientífico

Gramática: Imperfect

Vocabulario: El porqué de las creencias anticientíficas

Gramática: Present Subjunctive

¿Qué te parece?

Composición

Proyecto cultural

Unidad 3: El medio ambiente

Galería de arte

Lección 5: La situación actual

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: Los mandamientos verdes

Gramática: Formal Commands

Vocabulario: ¿Ecologista o desastre natural?

Gramática: Present Subjunctive in Adjective Clauses

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: Problemas ecológicos mundiales

Gramática: Subjunctive in Noun Clauses

Vocabulario: El urbanismo

Gramática: Formal and Informal Commands Compared

¿Qué te parece?

Composición

Proyecto cultural

Unidad 4: Los medios de comunicación y la globalización

Galería de arte

Lección 7: Los medios de comunicación

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: Los recursos disponibles

Gramática: Object Pronouns (Part I)

Vocabulario: La sociedad y los medios de comunicación

Gramática: Object Pronouns (Part II)

Lección 8: La globalización

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: ¿Se fomenta una cultura homogénea?v
Gramática: The pronoun se

Vocabulario: ¿Hacia la globalización?

Gramática: Conditional Tense

¿Qué te parece?

Composición

Proyecto cultural

Unidad 5: La libertad y la falta de libertad

Galería de arte

Lección 9: Las libertades y la violación de las libertades

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: Las libertades

Gramática: Review of the Conditional

Vocabulario: La violación de las libertades

Gramática: Subjunctive of Interdependence (Adverbial Conjunctions)

Lección 10: Las libertades personales y las responsabilidades sociales

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: ¿Qué es el sexismo?

Gramática: Review of the Subjunctive in Noun Clauses

Vocabulario: Contando con las libertades

Gramática: Review of impersonal and passive se

¿Qué te parece?

Composición

Proyecto cultural

Unidad 6: Perspectivas e imágenes culturales

Galería de arte

Lección 11:

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: Ascendencia e identidad

Gramática: Review of Object Pronouns

Vocabulario: Símbolos e imágenes

Gramática: Review of the Preterite and Imperfect

Lección 12: Perspectivas culturales

Ideas para explorar:

Vocabulario: ¿Descubrimiento, encuentro o invasión?

Gramática: Pluperfect (Pluscuamperfecto)

Vocabulario: Desde otra perspectiva

Gramática: Contrary-To-Fact Statements, Past Subjunctive

¿Qué te parece?

Composición

Proyecto cultural

Subjects