Camino al español
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 RodrÃguez GarCÃa, Porta Linguarum
Product details
January 2023Hardback
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 habÃa marchado
- 16. ¿Y cuando llegue el verano …?
- 17. Quiero que vengas
- 18. ¡No olvides la crema bronceadora!
- 19. ¿Qué harÃas?
- 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.