Conectandonos: A customized version for SPAN 201 at Concordia University Wisconsin and Ann Arbor
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2021
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A culture-based, critical-thinking approach to learning and using Spanish in context.
Conectándonos is a culture-based first year textbook that focuses on the analysis of language in its cultural context. By combining a textbook and website, Conectándonos engages students from the very beginning in the development of productive abilities as proposed by the Council on the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning.
The third edition of Conectándonos:
- presents learners with themes and topics that lead them to actively contrast and compare linguistic structures and cultural perspectives across Spanish varieties as well as between Spanish and English.
- promotes the development of a learner-centered environment in which students can analyze data, find patterns of use and structure, make tentative hypotheses, and try them out.
- systematically introduces learners to significant and systematic regional variations that provide students with the chance to understand a wide variety of representative regional accents and uses of Spanish that students will encounter in the real world in which the many varieties of Spanish are used.
- provides students with strategies needed to develop useful language skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening, pronunciation, and cultural analysis.
- integrates cultural information throughout the majority of sections of every chapter.
Preface
CAPÍTULO 9: De viaje por el mundo
Geographic focus: Colombia, Panamá and Venezuela
Vocabulario en contexto
- Los viajes
- La casa o el apartamento
Gramática en contexto
- Participles and the Present Perfect
- Expressions with Hace + time
- Past perfect
- Review of uses of se
Integración comunicativa
- Conversación: Expressing feelings
- Pronunciación: The letters “b” and “v”
- Comprensión oral: Listening to public announcements
- Lectura: Scanning texts for specific information
- Escritura: Writing complaint letters, emails, and notes
Comparaciones culturales
- Cultura: El contacto físico
- Literatura: Gabriel García Márquez
- Diferencias dialectales: Uso de usted en Colombia
CAPÍTULO 10: Para mejorar tu dieta
Geographic focus: Ecuador and Perú
Vocabulario en contexto
- Los grupos alimenticios y la dieta
- La preparación de comidas
Gramática en contexto
- Comparisons of equality and inequality
- Superlatives
- Review of pronouns (direct and indirect, prepositional)
- Review of informal and formal commands
Integración comunicativa
- Conversación: Requesting, giving, or refusing help
- Pronunciación: Words tend to blend together
- Lectura: Strategic reading
- Comprensión oral: Taking notes
- Escritura: Writing summaries from notes
Comparaciones culturales
- Cultura: Los modales en la mesa
- Literatura: Leyendas populares
- Diferencias dialectales: La influencia de las lenguas indígenas en el vocabulario
CAPÍTULO 11: Para mejorar tu salud
Geographic focus: Bolivia and Paraguay
Vocabulario en contexto
- Anatomía humana
- Enfermedades, síntomas y remedios
Gramática en contexto
- Prepositions: a, en, de, por, para
- Possessive pronouns
- Present subjunctive with impersonal expressions
- Subjunctive in dependent clauses
Integración comunicativa
- Lectura: Understanding emergency instructions
- Comprensión oral: At the doctor’s office
- Escritura: Writing a formal essay
- Conversación: Expressing doubt and surprise
- Pronunciación: Rising and falling intonation
Comparaciones culturales
- Cultura: Sistemas de salud
- Literatura: Augusto Roa Bastos
- Diferencias dialectales: Variaciones regionales de terminología médica
CAPÍTULO 12: Conectándonos con el mundo
Geographic focus: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
Vocabulario en contexto
- Las tecnologías que facilitan la comunicación
- La comunicación no-verbal
Gramática en contexto
- Future and Conditional
- Present subjunctive with adverbial clauses
- Present subjunctive with non-existent and indefinite antecedents
Integración comunicativa
- Conversación: Requesting, giving and receiving advice
- Pronunciación: Aspiration of “p”, “t” and “k”
- Lectura: Using your knowledge of English
- Comprensión oral: Using visual information
- Escritura: Persuasive language
Comparaciones culturales
- Cultura: La herencia de la cultura maya
- Literatura: Poema anónimo
- Diferencias dialectales: El español mundial
Capítulo 1: Vocabulario
Capítulo 2: Vocabulario
Capítulo 3: Vocabulario
Capítulo 4: Vocabulario
Capítulo 5: Vocabulario
Capítulo 6: Vocabulario
Capítulo 7: Vocabulario
Capítulo 8: Vocabulario
Apéndice A: Information Gap Activities
Apéndice B: Verb Charts
Apéndice C: Spanish-English Glossary
Apéndice D: English-Spanish Glossary
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