Gente de Cervantes

Offers intermediate Spanish students 12 short stories, each accompanied by a variety of activities including grammar review, vocabulary development and questions.

Three boys. Three stories. And one sport that unites them - and maybe not the one you'd expect.For as long as they can remember, best friends Mario and Carlos have talked about playing professional baseball one day like one of their idols, Rafael Soriano of the Yankees. Though they have only played the game on the streets of the neighborhood, growing up the boys often repeated the same conversation about someday wearing the pinstriped uniform and giving post-game interviews to the press - in English and Spanish! It was wishful thinking, to be sure, but common for many young boys raised in the ...

Aprender un idioma extranjero a través de situaciones reales es, probablemente, la manera más segura de fijarlo en la memoria y poder utilizarlo con agilidad en el momento en que surge la ocasión. Con el CD audio, este libro se convierte en un instrumento muy útil para aprender francés de manera gradual y eficaz. Los diálogos y las tablas ayudarán al lector a memorizar fácilmente las palabras de uso común y las expresiones coloquiales, con lo que dominará el léxico y la fraseología esenciales que serán la base sólida de su futuro dominio del idioma. Las estructuras gramaticales...

Intermediate. It is 1792, and Spain is in crisis. The Inquisition is sweeping the country, making life dangerous for court painter Francisco Goya and his beautiful model Ines. From the reader series Aprende Espanol Con..., which features stories based on modern films and television series, carefully adapted for Spanish language students. Includes an Audio CD of the text, supplementary materials for teachers, and before and after activities for students.