Punto C/ELE. Manual de español como lengua extranjera

A combined text that meets the needs of second-year intermediate courses in Spanish. Part I reviews Spanish grammar, in Spanish, with oral and written exercises and brief cultural readings. Part II offers five complete stories and one play by Hispanic authors from Latin America, the U.S., and Spain. The program addresses the problem of both ``anglo'' and ``hispanic'' students.

La 4e de couverture indique : " Los Fernandez van a la boda de una prima en Buenos Aires. Cuando llegan al aeropuerto, descruben que la familia del novio piensa que son aristocratas. Aunque no les gusta, aceptan interpretar esta papel para ayudar a su familia."

Approximately 2000 idiomatic expressions are presented in English, with their meanings or equivalents expressed in Spanish.

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.