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Punto y Aparte

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ISBN-10: 0073385301

ISBN-13: 9780073385303

Edition: 4th 2011

Authors: Sharon Foerster, Anne Lambright

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Punto y aparte moves your students beyond learning about the Spanish language to actually using their Spanish in natural, meaningful contexts. With Punto y aparte students develop more confidence for communication and begin to think critically about language and culture. This is achieved by focusing on seven communicative functions and the grammar structures that support them. These communicative functions appear at the beginning and are recycled throughout, providing opportunities for review in different contexts. Since this is not the typical linear march through grammar one structure at a time, students are able to begin using language in a way that is creative and allows for natural…    
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List price: $163.33
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 1/21/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.232

Anne Lambright is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literature in the Hispanic Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She earned her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus is on contemporary Latin American Literature, Andean literature, indigenismo, and Latin American women’s writing, topics on which she has published several articles and books. She is the author of Creating the Hybrid Intellectual: Subject, Space, and the Feminine in the Narrative of Jos� Mar�a Arguedas and co-author of Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America (2007), with Elisabeth Guerrero. In…    

Para Empezar
Los cinco amigos
Cara a cara
Puntos clave: Introducci�n
Perspectivas: Percepciones e impresiones
La historia: Las primeras impresiones Vocabulario del tema
Nota cultural: �Somos tan sensibles?
Puntos clave: Descripci�n y comparaci�n Rinc�n cultural
Lugares fascinantes: Fiestas y celebraciones de Espa�a Un artista hispano: Antoni Gaud� La m�sica espa�ola
Lectura: “Salvador Dal�: La novela de su vida”
�A escribir!
Hablando del tema
Conexiones: Nuestras ra�ces
La historia: Mami viene a visitarme. �V�lgame Dios!
Vocabulario del tema
Nota cultural: Los apodos
Puntos clave: Narraci�n en el pasado
Rinc�n cultural
Lugares fascinantes: El Caribe
Un artista hispano: Nick Quijano
La m�sica caribe�a
Lectura: Habana Blues
�A escribir!
�Hablando del tema
Pasiones y sentimientos: Las relaciones humanas
La historia: Buscando el equilibrio
Vocabulario del tema
Nota cultural: Los piropos
Puntos clave: Reacciones y recomendaciones
Rinc�n cultural
Lugares fascinantes: M�xico
Un artista hispano: Jos� Guadalupe Posada
La m�sica mexicana
Lectura: “Peregrina”, por Arturo Ortega Mor�n
�A escribir!
Hablando del tema
La vida moderna: Las obligaciones y el tiempo libre
La historia: Hay que ser m�s fiesteros
Vocabulario del tema
Nota cultural: �Qui�nes son los m�s fiesteros?
�Puntos clave: Hablar de los gustos
Rinc�n cultural
Lugares fascinantes: El Cono Sur
Un artista hispano: Maitena Burendarena
La m�sica uruguaya
Lectura: “Chile: Tribus urbanas, rostros que buscan una identidad”, por Rebeca Rojas Rodr�guez
�A escribir!
Hablando del tema
El mundo actual: Participaci�n c�vica y acci�n global
La historia: Este mundo nuestro
Vocabulario del tema
Nota cultural: La vida pol�tica de los j�venes hispanos
Puntos clave: Hacer hip�tesis
Rinc�n cultural
Lugares fascinantes: La regi�n andina
Un artista hispano: Gonzalo Endara Crow
La m�sica andina
Lectura: “El candidato”, por Jos� Cardona-L�pez
�A escribir!
Hablando del tema
Hacia el porvenir: Un mundo m�s verde y conectado La historia: Preparativos
Vocabulario del tema
Nota cultural: El Internet en el mundo hispano
Puntos clave: Hablar del futuro
Rinc�n cultural
Lugares fascinantes: Centroam�rica
Algunos artistas hispanos: Las indias kunas de Panam� y sus molas
La m�sica guatamalteca
Lectura: “Los portadores de sue�os”, por Gioconda Belli
�A escribir!
Hablando del tema
Explicaci�n gramatical: Los puntos clave
Descripci�n
Agreement
Ser and estar
Past participles used as adjectives
Uses and omission of articles
Comparaci�n
Comparisons of equality
Comparisons of inequality
Irregular comparative forms
Superlatives
Narraci�n en el pasado
Formation of the preterite and imperfect
Using the preterite and imperfect
Verbs with different meanings in the preterite and imperfect
The present perfect and pluperfect
Hace... que
Reacciones y recomendaciones
Formation of the present subjunctive
Formation of the past subjunctive
Using the subjunctive in noun clauses
Commands
Hablar de los gustos
Direct object pronouns
The personal a
Indirect object pronouns
Double object pronouns
Gustar and similar verbs
Hacer hip�tesis
Past subjunctive and sequence of tenses
The conditional
Hypothesizing
Contents
Hablar del futuro
The future tense
The future of probability
Using the subjunctive in adverbial clauses
Referencia de gram�tica: Los otros puntos gramaticales
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns
Prepositions and verbs that take prepositions
Saber and conocer
Relative pronouns
Por and para
Using the subjunctive in adjective clauses
�A practicar! Answer Key
Verb Charts
Vocabulario espa�ol-ingl�s
Index
Credits
About the Authors