Pobre Ana

Three self-teaching study units to gain the basics of conversational Spanish to help you communicate with Spanish-speaking students, and their parents.

Engages pupils' interest and imagination as it explores issues and topics of relevance to teenagers. The text is supported by a wealth of realia and pictures on every page. Comprehensive teacher support is provided through detailed accompanying notes and National Curriculum cross referencing. Supports students in their language learning by promoting the active use of Spanish in the classroom.

An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency. Entrevistas sets itself apart from other first-year Spanish texts through the integration and treatment of authentic (real) speech samples in the text, video, audio, and website.

"Explica el significado y evolución de cada palabra y cada acepción por siglos, con la autoridad de más de 1500 autores medievales, renacentistas, modernos y contemporáneos, la comprobación de sesenta dicionarios preacadémicos, del célebre Diccionario de Autoridades de 1726 (6 vols.), de las dieciocho ediciones del Diccionario Académico (1780 a 1956) y de más de quinientos diccionarios y glosarios de especialidades" (t.p.).