Tras las huellas del gato: de Manet a Baudelaire

This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based (requiring students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks) and content-based, including readings from a variety of disciplines. ¿Sabías que...? represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten's methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (a natural companion volume for instructors using this text). The new edition is accompanied by a new CD-ROM, a new Online Learning Center, and more!

After years of living with uncertainty, first with his mother and then in foster care, J.P.'s life is finally becoming more predictable, routine and even comfortable. Now that he is living with his father, his stepmother and his two half-sisters, J.P. finally has the opportunity to learn more about himself. As a fan of professional wrestling that he views on TV, he decides to pursue that sport at his new school. What he is not nearly as keen on is the idea of studying, mostly because it's hard for him. Nevertheless, he resolves to do well enough to ensure eligibility for participation on the...

This is a work that claims that students establish a significant contact with language, by understanding and practicing in their element in a manner that internalizes its correct use, with each exercise it motivates reflection and self-criticizing to strengthen in students human values related to socializing and tolerance.

FUNNY TALES IN EASY SPANISH Volume 5 Riendo con Jaimito Intermediate Level This volume was written in simple, easy Spanish for elementary-level students. Fun and easy to read, the text was edited and simplified to increase language comprehension and ease reading practice with simple wording, short sentences, and moderate, elementary-level vocabulary