Synopses & Reviews
Spanish for Reading and Translation is designed to prepare students to be able to read in Spanish, particularly for students enrolled in universities that call for a reading knowledge of a foreign language as a requirement for a graduate degree. Requiring only a recognition knowledge of Spanish, this text prepares students to answer content questions about passages and to translate English text into Spanish.
Table of Contents
Every chapter includes the following sections:
Reading
Vocabulary
Grammar
Reading
Each of the sections contains accompanying exercises. The grammar topics are as follows:
Preliminary Lesson
- Pronunciation, reading strategies, cognates and use of the dictionary
Chapter 1
- Gender and number of nouns, definite and indefinite articles, and prepositions
Chapter 2
- Adjectives, subject pronouns, present tense, ser and estar
Chapter 3
- Imperfect tense and preterit tense
Chapter 4
- Future tense, conditional tense and affirmative and negative word pairs
Review Lesson 1 — Chapters 1-4
Chapter 5
- Compound tenses and progressive tenses
Chapter 6
- Commands, present subjunctive, and present subjunctive in noun clauses
Chapter 7
- Present subjunctive in adjective and adverbial clauses, imperfect subjunctive, and sequence of tenses
Chapter 8
- Compound tenses of the subjunctive, si clauses, adjective, adverbs, and superlatives
Review Lesson 2 — Chapters 5-8
Chapter 9
- Direct and indirect object pronouns, gustar and similar verbs, personal a, neuter pronoun lo, pronouns as objects of prepositions, reflexive pronouns, and reciprocal constructions
Chapter 10
- True passive voice, passive construction with se, se in accidental happenings, estar plus past participle, and hace in time expressions
Chapter 11
- Possessive adjectives and pronouns, demonstrative adjectives and pronouns, and relatives
Chapter 12
- Por and para, questions and exclamations, word order, numbers, expressions of obligation, lo plus adjectives and adverbs, uses of the infinitive, and diminutives and augmentatives
Review Lesson 3 — Chapters 9-12
Appendix I
Appendix II
- Reading and Translation Resources: Dictionaries, Newspapers, Magazines and Journals
Index