Robert L.Nicholas is Professor Emeritus of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Ph.D.is from the University of Oregon;he has been at Wisconsin since 1965. His scholarly interests focus on the modern period of Spanish literature, especially the twentieth-century theater and novel. He has published numerous articles in addition to his books, The Tragic Stages of Antonio Buero Vallejo;Unamuno, narrador;and El sainete erio. He has been the recipient of several research grants from the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin, and for years directed teaching assistatnts in the beginning Spanishcourse at the University of Wisconsin. More recently, he has served as departamental chairman. He has authored or coauthored several high school and college Spanish textbooks,including ¡En camino!and ¡Adelante!María Canteli Dominicis, Professor of Spanish at St. John's University, New York, was born in Cuba and has been teaching college-level Spanish in the United States since 1961. She holds a degree of Doctora en Filosofía y Letras from the University of Havana and a Ph.D. from New York University. Professor Dominicis is the author of Don Juan en el teatro español del siglo XX and Escenas cotidianas, a textbook for intermediate-level conversation courses. She is a coauthor of a number of college textbooks, including Casos y cosas (an intermediate conversation text),¡En camino! and ¡Adelante!At St. John's University, Professor Dominicis has recently served as chairperson of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages. At the present time, she is the coordinator of the Spanish Division and the director of the language laboratory.

Note: The complete Table of Contents is presented for the Lección preliminar and Lección 1, as representative of other chapters. For Lecciónes 2-15 only the grammatical structures are presented here.

Lección preliminar

Nombres y personas

Tú and usted

Motivo cultural: Spanish Names

Memopráctica: General Principles for Studying Spanish

The Spanish Vowels

The Spanish Alphabet

Cognados

Asking and Answering Questions

Saludos y conversaciones

Me gusta(n) / te gusta(n) / le gusta(n)

El calendario

Los días de la semana y los números 1-31

Para ver de veras

Estaciones y meses

Situaciones: En la clase; Interrogaciones

¿Qué hora es?

Conversación

Videotemas

Vocabulario activo

Lección 1: Mis compañeros de clase·

La sala de clase

Memopráctica: Using Gráficos to Learn Vocabulary

La clase de español

En la biblioteca

Situaciones: Preguntas comunes

Estudio de palabras: Suffixes

Motivo cultural: La UNAM·

Gramática esencial

1.1 Singular Articles

1.2 Gender of Nouns

1.3 Plurals of Articles and Nouns

1.4 Agreement and Position of Adjectives

1.5 Subject Pronouns

1.6 Present Tense of –ar verbs

Para resumir y repasar

Para ver de veras·

Comunicación

De la vida real

Videotemas

Motivo cultural: Education in the Hispanic World

Vocabulario activo·

Viaje por el mundo hispánico: México

Lección 2: Mi ciudad·

2.1 More on the Definite Article

2.2 Possessive Adjectives

2.3 Present Tense of -er and -ir Verbs

2.4 Irregular Present Tense Verbs: hacer, decir, tener, venir

2.5 Numbers: 20-

1.000.000

Lección 3: La ropa que llevo·

3.1 More Irregular Present Tense Verbs: estar, ser, dar, ir

3.2 Ser Used to Express Identification, Origin, Material, and Possession

3.3 Estar Used to Express Location

3.4 Ser and estar with Adjectives

3.5 Present Participles and Progressive Forms

Lección 4: Mi familia·

Gramática esencial

4.1 Irregular Present Tense of conocer, saber, oír, poner, salir, traer, ver

4.2 Uses of the Preposition a

4.3 Idioms with hacer and tener

4.4 Affirmative Familiar Commands

Lección 5: La comida que me gusta·

5.1 The Preterite

5.2 Irregular Preterites: hacer, venir, dar, ir, ser

5.3 Shortened Adjectives

5.4 Por and para Contrasted

Lección 6: Mi casa·

6.1 Irregular Preterites: decir, traer, poner, saber, estar, tener

6.2 Polite Commands: Negative Familiar Commands

6.3 Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns

Lección 7: Las Américas: pasado y futuro·

7.1 Basic Meanings of the Imperfect Tense

7.2 Regular Forms of the Imperfect Tense

7.3 Irregular Imperfects: ir, ser, ver

7.4 Preterite and Imperfect Tenses Contrasted

Lección 8: Mis diversiones·

8.1 Stem-Changing Verbs

8.2 Polite Command Forms of Stem-Changing Verbs

8.3 Polite Participle of Stem-Changing Verbs

8.4 Stem Changes in the Preterite

8.5 Direct Object Pronouns

8.6 Position of Direct Object Pronouns

Lección 9: La persona·

9.1 Reflexive Constructions

9.2 The Perfect Tenses

9.3 Indirect Object Pronouns

Lección 10: La presencia hispánica en los Estados Unidos·

10.1 Subjunctive Mood: General Statement

10.2 Forms of the Present Subjunctive

10.3 Stem and Spelling Changes in the Present Subjunctive

10.4 Subjunctive with Verbs of Volition (Will)

10.5 Subjunctive with Verbs of Emotion

10.6 Gustar and Verbs Like gustar

Lección 11 ¿Cómo te sientes? ·

11.1 Irregular Present Subjunctives: dar, estar, ir, saber, ser

11.2 Forms of the Present Perfect Subjunctive

11.3 Subjunctive with Verbs of Disbelief, Doubt, and Denial

11.4 Subjunctive with Impersonal Expressions

11.5 Comparatives and Superlatives

Lección 12.: De viaje por España·

12.1 Future and Conditional Tenses of Regular Verbs

12.2 Future and Conditional Tenses of Irregular Verbs

12.3 Affirmatives and Negatives

12.4 Uses of pero, sino, and sino que

Lección 13: De viaje por Hispanoamérica·

13.1 Regular Endings of the Imperfect Subjunctive

13.2 Imperfect Subjunctive of Irregular and Stem-Changing Verbs

13.3 Sequence of Tenses with the Subjunctive

13.4 The construction Hace… que…

Lección 14.: Las relaciones humanas·

14.1 Passive Constructions

14.2 Passive Constructions

14.3 Impersonal se

14.4 Subjunctive in Adjective Clauses

Lección 15: El mundo del trabajo·

15.1 Subjunctive in Adverbial Clauses

15.2 Subjunctive in Adverbial Clauses of Purpose and Proviso

15.3 Subjunctive in Adverbial Clauses of Time

15.4 If-Clausesnd Proviso

15.3 Subjunctive in Adverbial Clauses of Time

15.4 If-Clauses