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Yo Soy Así is a unique teaching and learning tool. At first sight it looks like many other Spanish textbooks, but when you start working with it, you begin to realize that it is amazingly different from other Spanish textbooks. Yo Soy Así takes the learner as the starting point and as the very objective of each lesson. This textbook is for them and about them. Language is incidental to the student’s desire to express himself and to describe his or her characteristics, personality, interests, and everyday life. It relies upon the skills of the instructor to start conversations among students about them. It allows the instructor to model the appropriate communicative style using monologues and dialogue for different life circumstances. The vocabulary was designed to be flexible and adaptable reflecting the preferences of the student. Grammar is presented as structures on which we place words to describe our thoughts and experiences, not as rules to be memorized for their own sake. The context is contemporary introducing students to life as it is actually lived in various Spanish speaking regions and countries, including the United States. The cultural content has been gleaned from inter-cultural training exercises prepared for American professionals who have been given an expatriate assignment in a Spanish speaking country. The ethnographic approach to its cultural content makes it realistic, up-to-date and useful. The textbook is supplemented with a comprehensive set of online exercises, most of which are self-correcting providing students with immediate feed-back, while providing instructors with an online homework monitoring system, and an online grade book for their convenience.
Yo Soy Así is a student-centered elementary Spanish textbook for English speaking college students. It provides students with a variety of correct models, which he/she can imitate through a number of drills on Maple T.A. These drills are designed for repetition, recognition, individual production and thoughtful reproduction or adaptation.
Yo Soy Así assists the instructor in fulfilling three primary teaching responsibilities:
- Modeling providing examples
- Coordinating learning activities
- Evaluating progress
Yo Soy Así features:
- year-long access to online homework.
- specially designed exercises used to acquire syntax and morphology.
- situational learning within real cultural settings to enable students to emote in the target language at the proper stimuli.
- numerous exercises and activities that facilitate a group-work approach both in the text and on the accompanying website.
- elements necessary to interest students in the variety of cultures existing in the Spanish speaking world.
- References to existing web sites, interesting movies, and absorbing readings that will familiarize students with El Mundo Hispano.
Introduction
Capítulo Uno El Español
Cultura
Spanish, the Spanish World and You
Diálogos
Más Diálogos
Preguntas del Diálogo
Vocabulario
Gramática
El Alfabeto en Español (The Spanish Alphabet)
Las Cinco Vocales (The Five Vowels)
Las Consonantes (The Consonants)
Acentuación (Accent Marks)
Cardinal Numbers
Subject Pronouns
The Verb Ser
¿Qué hora es?
Questions
Ejercicios
Deletreo (Spelling)
Drills
Diálogos
Las Conversaciones de los Estudiantes
Ejercicios De Gramática
Proverbios y Dichos
Capítulo Dos Yo Soy Así
Monólogos
Preguntas del Monólogo
Vocabulario
Gramática
The Present Tense
Nouns and Articles
Descriptive Adjectives and Adjectives of Nationality
The Verb Gustar and Encantar
The Verb ENCANTAR
The days of the week–Los días de la semana
The months of the year–Los meses del año
The seasons–Las estaciones
Ejercicios
Drills
Diálogos
Ejercicios de Gramática
Charlando
Cultura
Lectura
Capítulo Tres Mi Casa y Mi Barrio
Monólogos
Preguntas de los Monólogos
Vocabulario
Gramática
Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative Pronouns
Cardinal Numbers
Ordinal Numbers
The Use of the Preposition de to Show Possession
The Present of –er and –ir Ending Verbs
Verbo Especial
The Expression Acabar de Infinitive
The Expression Hay
The Verb Estar
Ser and Estar contrasted
Ejercicios
Drills
Diálogos
Ejercicios de Gramática
Charlando
Cultura
Mi Casa es Su Casa
Capítulo Cuatro Mi Comida Favorita
Monólogos
Mi Comida Favorita
Preguntas de los Monólogos
Vocabulario
Gramática
Possessive Adjectives
Stem Changing Verbs in the Present Indicative
Irregular Verbs
Stating Future Actions with “ir a Infinitive”
Saber and Conocer
Ejercicios
Ejercicios de Gramática
Charlando
Cultura
El Buen Comer
Capítulo Cinco La Ropa y las Estaciones
Monólogos
Preguntas Sobre los Monólogos
Vocabulario
Gramática
Verbal Expressions with tener and hacer
The Expression Favor de . . .
Irregular Verbs in the First Person Singular
Reflexive Constructions
Ejercicios
Diálogos
Ejercicios de Gramática
Drills
Charlando
Lectura
El Buen Vestir
Capítulo Seis Las Vacaciones
Monólogos y Diálogos
Preguntas Sobre los Monólogos
Vocabulario
Gramática
The Past Tense (The Preterit)
Verbs with Orthographic Changes in the Preterit
More Irregular Verbs
The Irregular Verbs
Stem Changing Verbs
Ejercicios
Diálogos
Ejercicios de Gramática
Drills
Charlando
Cultura
Las Vacaciones
Capítulo Siete La Familia
Monólogos
La Familia
Preguntas del Monólogo
Vocabulario
Gramática
The Past Tense: The Imperfect
Formation of the Imperfect: Regular Verbs
Formation of the Imperfect: Irregular Verbs
Contrasting the Preterit and the Imperfect
Change of Meaning for Preterit
The Imperfect Progressive
Ejercicios
Diálogos
Ejercicios de Gramática
Drills
Charlando
Cultura
La Familia
Capítulo Ocho El Amor y la Amistad
Monólogos
Preguntas de los Monólogos
Vocabulario
Gramática
Direct Object Pronouns
Indirect Object Pronouns
Double Object Pronouns
The Future Tense
The Conditional Tense
Ejercicios
Diálogos
Ejercicios de Gramática
Drills
Charlando
Cultura
Las Amistades en el Mundo Hispano
Poesía
Capítulo Nueve Los Deportes
Monólogos
Preguntas de los Monólogos
Vocabulario
Gramática
Comparisons of Inequality
Superlative Forms
Comparisons of Equality
The Absolute Superlative
Augmentatives and Diminutives
The Ending “-mente”
Mandatos Formales
Ejercicios
Diálogos
Ejercicios de Gramática
Drills
Charlando
Cultura
Los Deportes en el Mundo Hispano
Capítulo Diez Guía del Ocio
Monólogos
Preguntas de los Monólogos
Vocabulario
Gramática
Familiar Commands
The Past Participle
The Present Perfect
The Pluperfect
Ejercicios
Diálogos
Ejercicios de Gramática
Drills
Charlando
Cultura
Entretenimientos y Diversiones
Appendix
Maps
Spain
South America
The Caribbean
México
Central America