Synopses & Reviews
CUADROS is Heinle's new 4-VOLUME INTRODUCTORY and INTERMEDIATE Spanish program. It was developed to address the needs of the 4-SEMESTER and 4-QUARTER Spanish course sequence taught at most 2- and 4- year colleges and universities. All 4 volumes are designed to help you connect to the language and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Throughout the program, cultural themes and related activities encourage you to engage in meaningful communication. CUADROS' realistic pacing of material, easy-to-use grammar, practical vocabulary, engaging videos, and robust technology package work together to help you gain confidence and move quickly toward proficiency. CUADROS' 4-volume configuration allows you to pay as you go - buy what you need when you need it... Grammar overview of CUADROS (please refer to Table of Contents for a full Scope and Sequence): CUADROS Volume 1 (1st Semester or 1st Quarter) includes: Present Tense including Reflexive Verbs. CUADROS Volume 2 (2nd Semester or 2nd Quarter) includes: Present Subjunctive, Future Tense, Present and Past Perfect. CUADROS Volume 3 (3rd Semester or 3rd Quarter) includes: Preterite and Indirect as well as Commands. CUADROS Volume 4 (4th Semester or 4th Quarter) includes: Conditional, Imperfect Subjunctive, and Future and Conditional Perfect.
About the Author
Sheri Spaine Long (PhD, UCLA) is a Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she teaches Spanish language, literature, and culture courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a scholar-teacher, she bridges the study of languages and literatures. She also teaches interdisciplinary courses in English such as "Foreign Literatures in Translation" and "Madrid-as-Text." Her fields of interest are broad and range from contemporary Spanish prose to Spanish language and culture, global literature, foreign language pedagogy and policy, and international education. She has co-authored the following textbooks with Cengage recently--NEXOS: INTRODUCTORY SPANISH, PUEBLOS: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS, and ALIANZAS: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH. Sylvia Madrigal, a Yale graduate, has been in the foreign language publishing field for about 20 years. She has worked at Houghton Mifflin and at D.C. Heath, where she helped develop and write activities for the award-winning Dimelo CD-ROM series. She has authored a variety of educational materials, including video scripts for HM's TravelTour video and Caminos del jaguar. Kris Swanson has an M.A. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University. She has been in the foreign language publishing field for about 15 years. She currently works as a consultant and freelance writer, editor, and project manager. Maria Carreira is Associate Professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois, Champaign. Carreira has written linguistic notes, profiles of well-known Hispanics, and heritage learner annotations. She is active in issues relating to heritage learners.
Table of Contents
SEMESTER 3. Capitulo 11: Etapas de la vida (title to come). Etapas de la vida; Venezuela. 1. The subjunctive mood. 2. Expressing hopes and wishes: The subjunctive mood. 3. The subjunctive with impersonal expressions. Capitulo 12: ¿Que quieres ver? Culturas; Colombia. 1. The subjunctive with verbs of emotion. 2. Expressing doubt and uncertainty: The subjunctive with expressions of doubt and disbelief. 3. Expressing unrealized desires and unknown situations: The subjunctive with nonexistent and indefinite situations. Capitulo 13: ¿Que sintomas tienes? El bienestar; Argentina y Uruguay. 1. Expressing possible outcomes: The subjunctive and indicative with conjunctions. 2. Expressing yourself precisely: Choosing between the subjunctive and indicative moods. 3. Talking about future activities: The future tense. Capitulo 14: ¿Cual es tu trabajo ideal? Metas profesionales; Chile. 1. Talking about what has occurred: The present perfect tense. 2. Talking about events that took place prior to other events: The past perfect tense. 3. Expressing doubt, emotion, and will: The present perfect subjunctive. Capitulo 15: ¿Te gustaria explorar el mundo? Comunidad global; Andorra, Belice, Filipinas, Guinea Ecuatorial, Marruecos. 1. Expressing doubt, emotion, volition, and nonexistence in the past: The imperfect subjunctive. 2. Saying what might happen or could occur: The conditional. 3. Expressing the likelihood that an event will occur: Si clauses with the subjunctive and the indicative.