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Punto y aparte Student Edition with OLC Bind-in Card by Sharon Foerster

This best-selling intermediate level Spanish textbook was widely embraced by the market when it first published in 1999, ushering in a new approach to instruction. The unique methodology, which emphasizes seven communicative goals (metas comunicativas) has been praised by professors and students as an original way to review and refine language development at the intermediate level.

About Sharon Foerster

Sharon Wilson Foerster retired from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001, where she had been the Coordinator of Lower-Division Courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, directing the first- and second-year Spanish language program and training graduate assistant instructors. She continues to teach in the Spanish Summer Language School at Middlebury College in Vermont. She received her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communications from the University of Texas in 1981. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas, she was Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Study in Seville, Spain, for four years. She continues her involvement in study abroad through her work as Director of the Spanish Teaching Institute and as Academic Advisor for Academic Programs International. She is the co-author of the following McGraw-Hill titles: Pasaporte: Spanish for High Beginners (2009); Supplementary Materials to accompany Puntos de partida, Eighth Edition (2009); Metas: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency (2008); Punto y aparte: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency, Third Edition (2007); Lecturas literarias: Moving Toward Linguistic and Cultural Fluency Through Literature (2007); Metas comunicativas para maestros (1999); and Metas comunicativas para negocios (1998). Anne Lambright is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literature in the Hispanic Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She earned her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus is on contemporary Latin American Literature, Andean literature, indigenismo, and Latin American womens writing, topics on which she has published several articles and books. She is the author of Creating the Hybrid Intellectual: Subject, Space, and the Feminine in the Narrative of Josi? Mari?a Arguedas and co-author of Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America (2007), with Elisabeth Guerrero. In addition, she is the co-author of Metas: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency (2008).

Para empezar: Los cinco amigosCara a caraPuntos clave: Introduccion!A escribir!Capitulo 1: Perspectivas: Percepciones e impresionesLa historia: Las primeras impresionesVocabulario del temaNota cultural: ?Somos tan sensibles?Puntos clave: Descripcion y comparacionRincon culturalLugares fascinantes: Fiestas y celebraciones de Espana1. Barcelona2. Sevilla3. Toledo4. El Pais VascoUn artista hispano: Francisco de Goya y LucientesLo hispano en los Estados Unidos: El flamencoLectura: Salvador Dali: La novela de su vida!A escribir!Hablando del temaCapitulo 2: Conexiones: ?Que importancia tienen nuestras raices?La historia: Mami viene a visitarmE. !Valgame Dios!Vocabulario del temaNota cultural: Los apodosPuntos clave: Reacciones y recomendacionesRincon culturalLugares fascinantes: El Caribe1. La Habana, Cuba2. San Pedro de Macoris, Rep. Dom.3. El Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico4. Merida, VenezuelaUn artista hispano: Nick QuijanoLo hispano en los Estados Unidos: Los "nuyoricans"Lectura: Sonar en cubano (fragmentos), por Cristina Garcia!A escribir!Hablando del temaCapitulo 3: Pasiones y sentimientos: ?Esta equilibrada su vida?La historia: Buscando el equilibrioVocabulario del temaNota cultural: Los piroposPuntos clave: Narracion en el pasadoRincon culturalLugares fascinantes: Mexico1. Guanajuato2. Mexico, D.F.3. El Yucatan4. OaxacaUn artista hispano: Jose Guadalupe PosadaLo hispano en los Estados Unidos: Un dia sin mexicanosLectura: (corrido mexicano)!A escribir!Hablando del temaCapitulo 4: Nuestras obligaciones y el tiempo libre: ?Como se relaja UD.?La historia: Hay que ser mas fiesterosVocabulario del temaNota cultural: ?Quienes son los mas fiesteros?Puntos clave: Hablar de los gustosRincon culturalLugares fascinantes: El Cono Sur1. La Patagonia, Argentina2. El Observatorio Paranal, Chile3. Montevideo, Uruguay4. Las Cataratas del IguazuUn artista hispano: Carlos GardelLo hispano en los Estados Unidos: La musica latinaLectura 1: Entrevista: El proceso creativo de Roberto AmpueroLectura 2: "Yo en el fondo del mar", por Alfonsina Storni!A escribir!Hablando del temaCapitulo 5: El mundo actual: ?Como influyen en nosotros los problemas del mundo?La historia: Este mundo nuestroVocabulario del temaNota cultural: La vida politica de los jovenes hispanosPuntos clave: Hacer hipotesisRincon culturalLugares fascinantes: La region andina1. Cuzco y Machu Picchu, Peru2. Cartagena, Colombia3. Las Islas Galapagos, Ecuador4. La Paz, BoliviaUn artista hispano: Gonzalo Endara CrowLo hispano en los Estados Unidos: El poder politico de los hispanosLectura 1: Angel del desierto, por Carmen OlleLectura 2: "Callemonos un rato", por Carlos Castro Saavedra!A escribir!Hablando del temaCapitulo 6: El porvenir: ?Que nos espera en el futuro?La historia: PreparativosVocabulario del temaNota cultural: El Internet en el mundo hispanoPuntos clave: Hablar del futuroRincon culturalLugares fascinantes: Centroamerica1. El canal de Panama2. Tikal, Guatemala3. El Lago de Nicaragua4. El Parque Nacional Tortuguero, Costa RicaUn artista hispano: Las indias kunas de Panama y sus molasLo hispano en los Estados Unidos: "Las Ciudades Hermanas"Lectura 1: "Primer encuentro", por Alvaro Menendez LealLectura 2: "Uno no escoge", por Gioconda Belli!A escribir!Hablando del temaExplicacion gramatical: Los Puntos claveDescripcionA. AgreementB. Ser and estarC. Past participles used as adjectivesD. Uses and omission of articlesComparacionA. Comparisons of equalityB. Comparisons of inequalityC. Irregular comparative formsD. SuperlativesReacciones y recomendacionesA. Formation of the present subjunctiveB. Formation of the past subjunctiveC. Using the subjunctive in noun clausesD. CommandsNarracion en el pasadoA. Formation of the preterite and imperfectB. Using the preterite and imperfectC. Verbs with different meanings in the preterite and imperfectD. The present perfect and pluperfectE. Hace... que... Hablar de los gustosA. Direct object pronounsB. The personal aC. Indirect object pronounsD. Double object pronounsE. Gustar and similar verbsHacer hipotesisA. Past subjunctive and sequence of tensesB. The conditionalC. HypothesizingHablar del futuroA. The future tenseB. The future of probabilityC. Using the subjunctive in adverbial clausesReferencia de gramatica: Otros puntos gramaticalesA. Reflexive and reciprocal pronounsB. Prepositions and verbs that take prepositionsC. Relative pronounsD. Por and paraE. Using the subjunctive in adjective clausesApendice 1: !A practicar! Answer KeyApendice 2: Verb ChartsVocabulario espanol-ingles

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Punto y aparte Student Edition with OLC Bind-in Card by Sharon Foerster

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Sharon Foerster

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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

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2005-06-16

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