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Camino al español

Camino al español

Camino al español

A Comprehensive Course in Spanish
2nd Edition
Consuelo de Andrés Martínez, Higher Education Academy, UK
Nadezhda Bonelli, The Open University, Milton Keynes
Christine Cook, University of Sheffield
Anthony Trippett, University of Sheffield
January 2023
Hardback
9781108485258

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    Written by a team of experienced teachers of Spanish, this textbook is designed to lead the adult beginner to a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish, giving balanced attention to the four key language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing). It puts language learning into its real-life context, by incorporating authentic materials such as newspaper articles, poems and songs. It contains a learner and a teacher guide and is intended to complement study both inside and outside the classroom, by providing pair and group activities, as well as materials for independent learning. It also includes helpful reference features, such as a guide to grammatical terms, verb tables, vocabulary lists and a pronunciation guide. This extensively updated second edition features extra exercises to support the acquisition of good pronunciation, and is accompanied by a web companion that hosts expansion exercises, activities, solutions and useful links for each unit, as well transcripts, and access to brand new recordings of all the audio examples found in the book.

    • Guides students and instructors through a comprehensive course in Spanish, from elementary to advanced level
    • Supports students by providing supplementary materials such as a leaner guide, verb tables, vocabulary lists, a pronunciation guide and a student guide to grammar terms
    • Puts language learning into real-life context through authentic newspaper articles, poems, and songs
    • Helps students develop their speaking and listening skills through written and audio guides, along with quality, user-friendly audio materials featuring a wide variety of accents

    Reviews & endorsements

    '… one of the most complete new volumes for students with English as their mother tongue who wish to learn Spanish, one of the languages with the greatest presence in the world today.' Cristina Rodríguez GarCía, Porta Linguarum

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    Product details

    January 2023
    Hardback
    9781108485258
    500 pages
    250 × 176 × 39 mm
    1.29kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Part I. Preliminaries: Introduction
    • Learner guide
    • Teacher guide: Sample unit
    • Part II. The Units:
    • 1. ¿Cómo te llamas?
    • 2. ¿Tienes hermanos?
    • 3. ¿Cómo es tu casa?
    • 4. ¿Dónde está la oficina de correos?
    • 5. ¿Qué desea?
    • 6. Y tú, ¿qué haces normalmente?
    • 7. De viaje
    • 8. ¿Qué van a tomar?
    • 9. ¿Qué has hecho esta semana?
    • 10. ¿Los tiene en negro?
    • 11. Cuando era pequeña
    • 12. ¿Qué pasó?
    • 13. ¿Qué harás este fin de semana?
    • 14. ¿Qué te pasa? ¿Cómo estás?
    • 15. Ya se había marchado
    • 16. ¿Y cuando llegue el verano …?
    • 17. Quiero que vengas
    • 18. ¡No olvides la crema bronceadora!
    • 19. ¿Qué harías?
    • 20. Si fuera millonario … 21. Un momentito, por favor
    • Solutions
    • Transcripts
    • Indexes to the units
    • Part III. Reference Tools and Study Aids: Pronunciation, word stress and intonation
    • Cardinal and ordinal numbers
    • Guide to grammatical terms
    • Spanish verbs
    • Vocabulary lists: Spanish-English
    • English-Spanish.
      Authors
    • Consuelo de Andrés Martínez , Higher Education Academy, UK

      Consuelo de Andrés Martínez was born and bred in Madrid, Spain. As a Senior Lecturer she has shared her passion for languages and learning at the universities of Plymouth, Sheffield,and many Higher Education institutions in the UK and abroad. She is a dedicated and innovative teacher of Spanish, championing digital technologies to enhance learning. She has led the web companion for this second edition.

    • Nadezhda Bonelli , The Open University, Milton Keynes

      Nadezhda Bonelli initiated the work for this second edition. Originally from Peru, she teaches ab-initio Spanish as an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, UK. She also worked for 25 years at the University of Sheffield, leading developments on the Spanish Beginners' programme through which she consistently worked to promote student engagement and independent learning.

    • Christine Cook , University of Sheffield

      Christine Cook moved to Spain in 2004 after teaching Spanish at Sheffield College and Sheffield University for almost 15 years. In Spain, she has been teaching Spanish to non-Spanish residents with a focus on the acquisition of language for everyday communication. She has been responsible for the inclusion of illustrations and icons in this second edition of the book.

    • Anthony Trippett , University of Sheffield

      Anthony Trippett, now retired from the University of Sheffield, has been teaching and examining Spanish language and literature in schools, colleges and universities at all levels for some forty years. He has always taken a special interest in accelerated beginners' courses and the use of authentic written materials in language learning. He was the original initiator of Camino al español and has been the administrative coordinator for both editions.