Name: Better Reading Spanish By Jean Yates
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Better Reading Spanish by Jean Yates

Sharpen your Spanish language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and culture

Better Reading Spanish offers you entertaining, real world texts to help you understand and learn more Spanish vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history. Along the way, you will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. The articles become gradually more difficult as you proceed through the book to keep you challenged and engaged.

Better Reading Spanish is an easy, engaging way to boost your language skills and learn more about the language and its speakers as you go.

About Jean Yates

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Preface
How to use this book
La cocina
Guia para la buena alimentacion A nutrition chart
Menu de Mexico A menu from a Mexican restaurant
Gazpacho A recipe from a Spanish cookbook
Pina The story of a fruit native to the Americas
El cumpleanos de Frida Kahlo A Mexican dinner party
Pastel chabela An excerpt from a Mexican novel
La musica
Discos A magazine review of compact discs
La musica y vitalidad de Compay Segundo A Cuban musician
Los premios Grammy Latinos The Latin Grammys
Los Rabanes A Panamanian group
Del Gado y la musica andina Keeping Inca music alive
Tomatito A Flamenco artist
El tango The Argentine music and dance
Si se calla el cantor An Argentine folk song
Recuerdos de la ninez Excerpts from three novels: one Puerto Rican, one Spanish, one Peruvian
Los deportes
Todos somos Guerreros A flyer from a baseball game
Deportes acuaticos en Costa Rica Diverse water sports
Lorena Ochoa, golfista extraordinaria Mexico's star female golfer
Mas alla del beisbol, la vida de Roberto Clemente A baseball legend
El ciclismo y la salud The benefits of cycling
Top 7 de ejercicios que queman muchas calorias Calorie-burning activities
Lo que se necesita para ganar Winning in the NBA
Noticias historicas del beisbol Baseball news
Tres historias Soccer stories retold by a Uruguayan author
El cine y el teatro
Peliculas hispanas ganadoras al Oscar por Mejor Pelicula de Habla no Inglesa Best foreign film Oscar winners
Solas A Spanish movie
Todo sobre mi madre A Spanish Oscar
Carlos Saura A Spanish filmmaker
Yo nunca quise ser escritor A Chilean writer and movie critic
Fundacion Arlequin Teatro A program from a theater in Paraguay
El fabricante de deudas An excerpt from a Peruvian play
El arte
Museos A tourist leaflet from Honduras
El arco iris A poem by a Mexican painter
El muralismo mexicano The story of mural painting in Mexico
Frida Kahlo A Mexican painter
Pablo Picasso Spanish genius
Salvador Dali An individualist from Spain
Fernando Botero A painter and sculptor from Colombia
A la manera de Frida Kahlo An Argentine poet on a Mexican painter
Graffiti A poem about another painter
La familia
El arbol familiar A family tree
La celebracion del matrimonio The wedding ceremony
A mi hija Flor de Maria A father's poem
La familia: un invento maravilloso A young mother's reflections
La familia de Marcela A nontraditional family
Un padre A famous father
Los abuelos Traditional and modern games in Mexico
Cuentos Family relationships in prose from Bolivia
La primera clase de ballet A daughter's first dance lesson
El estilo de vida hoy
Persiguiendo el sueno bilingue Bringing up a child bilingually
Mi PC A song from the Dominican Republic
Cristina The Cuban-American talk show hostess
Oscar de la Renta Fashion designer from the Dominican Republic
Carolina Herrera, que mujer New York designer from Venezuela
Edward James Olmos: Embajador de la buena voluntad Mexican-American goodwill ambassador
Un dia insolito A day in the life of a modern man-Excerpt from a novel
La historia y la politica
Cronologia A time line
Simon Bolivar Sayings of a South American hero
Celebrando la independencia Bolivian Independence Day customs
El Canal de Panama An engineering marvel
La pacifista A Colombian peacemaker
Mario Vargas Llosa, el politico detras del escritor The political side of the Nobel Laureate
Ernesto Che Guevara Life of the Argentine-born revolutionary
Una conversacion entre marido y mujer An Argentine power couple-Excerpt from a novel
Continuing to read
Answer key
Acknowledgments
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CIN0071770313VG

ISBN 13

9780071770316

ISBN 10

0071770313

Title

Better Reading Spanish by Jean Yates

Author

Jean Yates

Series

Better Reading Series

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Year published

20111116

Number of pages

272

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