Synopses & Reviews
This innovative Spanish text, informed by current research on second language acquisition, provides a comprehensive review of vocabulary and grammar for a two-semester intermediate Spanish course. Organized around six engaging units, ¿Qué te parece? offers students a diversity of topics and perspectives to encourage critical thinking and inspire collaboration and discussion. Its communicative vocabulary and grammar tasks provide a smooth continuation and expansion of first-year Spanish, and act as a springboard to advanced Spanish courses. ¿Qué te parece? is also a fundamental text for students who will eventually become Spanish majors or minors.
Synopsis
This innovative Spanish text, informed by current research on second language acquisition, provides a comprehensive review of vocabulary and grammar for a two-semester intermediate Spanish course. Organized around six engaging units, ¿Qué te parece? offers students a diversity of topics and perspectives to encourage critical thinking and inspire collaboration and discussion. Its communicative vocabulary and grammar tasks provide a smooth continuation and expansion of first-year Spanish, and act as a springboard to advanced Spanish courses. ¿Qué te parece? is also a fundamental text for students who will eventually become Spanish majors or minors.
About the Author
James F. Lee is the Head of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of second language reading comprehension, input processing, and exploring the relationship between the two. His research has appeared in a number of scholarly journals and publications, including the co-authored books with Alessandro Benati Second Language Processing: Theory, Problems and Possible Solutions (2007, Continuum) and Delivering Processing Instruction in Classrooms and Virtual Contexts (2007, Equinox). Other publications include the book Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms (2000, McGraw-Hill) and the co-authored book Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen, Second Edition (2003, McGraw-Hill). He has also co-authored secveral textbooks, including ¿Sabias que…? Beginning Spanish, Vistazos, ¿Qué te parece?, and Ideas: Lecturas, estrategias, actividades y composiciones. He and Bill VanPatten are series editors for the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series. Dolly J. Young (Ph.D., the University of Texas) is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Tennessee. She supervises the first- and second-year Spanish programs and provides teacher training for graduate students. She has published widely in the areas of language anxiety and foreign language reading. She co-edited the first languge anxiety volume Language Anxiety: From Theory and Research to Classroom Implications, with Elaine K. Horowitz, co-wrote a supplementary Spanish reader, Esquemas, with the late Darlene F. Wolf, and co-wrote the second-year Spanish textbook ¿Qué te parece? with Dr. James Lee, Darlene Wolf, and Paul Chandler.Rodney Bransdorfer received his Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught at Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Gustavus Adolphus College. He is currently Professor of Spanish at Central Washington University. He has presented papers at national conferences such as AATSP and AAAL. In addition to his work on the Pasajes series, he has authored or co-authored several other McGraw-Hill titles including: ¡Avance!, Second Edition (2008), ¿Qué te parece?, Third Edition (2005), the instructor's annotations for Nuevos Destinos: Spanish in Review (1998), and the instructor's annotations for Destinos: Alternate Edition (1997).
Table of Contents
Unidad 1: El lenguaje y la comunicación
Galería de arte
Lección 1: El español y tu
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario
Gramática: Present Tense of Regular and Stem
Changing Verbs
Vocabulario: ¿Por qué se aprende español?
Gramática: Future with ir
Lección 2: El español y los Estados Unidos
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: Están en todas partes
Gramática: Estar, Ser
Vocabulario: Los países de habla española
Gramática: Future Tense
¿Qué te parece?
Composición
Proyecto cultural
Unidad 2: Las creencias populares
Galería de arte
Lección 3: La suerte
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: La buena y la mala suerte
Gramática: Present Perfect Tense
Vocabulario: Perspectivas globales
Gramática: Preterite
Lección 4: La ciencia y lo anticientífico
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: Lo científico y lo anticientífico
Gramática: Imperfect
Vocabulario: El porqué de las creencias anticientíficas
Gramática: Present Subjunctive
¿Qué te parece?
Composición
Proyecto cultural
Unidad 3: El medio ambiente
Galería de arte
Lección 5: La situación actual
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: Los mandamientos verdes
Gramática: Formal Commands
Vocabulario: ¿Ecologista o desastre natural?
Gramática: Present Subjunctive in Adjective Clauses
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: Problemas ecológicos mundiales
Gramática: Subjunctive in Noun Clauses
Vocabulario: El urbanismo
Gramática: Formal and Informal Commands Compared
¿Qué te parece?
Composición
Proyecto cultural
Unidad 4: Los medios de comunicación y la globalización
Galería de arte
Lección 7: Los medios de comunicación
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: Los recursos disponibles
Gramática: Object Pronouns (Part I)
Vocabulario: La sociedad y los medios de comunicación
Gramática: Object Pronouns (Part II)
Lección 8: La globalización
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: ¿Se fomenta una cultura homogénea?v Gramática: The pronoun se
Vocabulario: ¿Hacia la globalización?
Gramática: Conditional Tense
¿Qué te parece?
Composición
Proyecto cultural
Unidad 5: La libertad y la falta de libertad
Galería de arte
Lección 9: Las libertades y la violación de las libertades
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: Las libertades
Gramática: Review of the Conditional
Vocabulario: La violación de las libertades
Gramática: Subjunctive of Interdependence (Adverbial Conjunctions)
Lección 10: Las libertades personales y las responsabilidades sociales
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: ¿Qué es el sexismo?
Gramática: Review of the Subjunctive in Noun Clauses
Vocabulario: Contando con las libertades
Gramática: Review of impersonal and passive se
¿Qué te parece?
Composición
Proyecto cultural
Unidad 6: Perspectivas e imágenes culturales
Galería de arte
Lección 11:
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: Ascendencia e identidad
Gramática: Review of Object Pronouns
Vocabulario: Símbolos e imágenes
Gramática: Review of the Preterite and Imperfect
Lección 12: Perspectivas culturales
Ideas para explorar:
Vocabulario: ¿Descubrimiento, encuentro o invasión?
Gramática: Pluperfect (Pluscuamperfecto)
Vocabulario: Desde otra perspectiva
Gramática: Contrary-To-Fact Statements, Past Subjunctive
¿Qué te parece?
Composición
Proyecto cultural