A Culture-based, Critical-thinking Approach to Learning and Using Spanish in Context
Conectándonos-1e is a culture-based first year textbook that focuses on the analysis of language in its cultural context to achieve three main objectives:
a. develop students’ communicative proficiency of Spanish as a second language.
b. develop students' understanding of various Hispanic cultures as well as of their own culture.
c. develop students' academic skills (critical thinking) that are applicable to any type of language and culture analysis.
Preface
CAPÍTULO 7: Cultivando el cuerpo y el espíritu
Geographic focus: Argentina and Uruguay
Vocabulario en contexto:
Los deportes
Las artes
Gramática en contexto:
Preterit: Regular verbs
Preterit: Verbs with spelling changes
Preterit: Irregular verbs
CAPÍTULO 8: Recordando cuando éramos niños
Geographic focus: Chile
Vocabulario en contexto:
Las relaciones familiares
Diferentes etapas de la vida
Gramática en contexto:
Imperfect and Preterit: Background and foreground
Imperfect and Preterit: States and punctual events
Meaning changing verbs in the past
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
Past perfect
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
Review of pronouns (direct and indirect, prepositional)
Review of informal and formal commands
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
Present subjunctive with impersonal expressions
Subjunctive in dependent clauses
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
Apéndice A: Information Gap Activities
Apéndice B: Verb Charts
Apéndice C: Spanish-English Glossary
Apéndice D: English-Spanish Glossary
Créditos
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