The Workbook section offers a variety of writing activities--sentence completion, matching, sentence transformation, and illustration-based exercises--that provide further practice and reinforcement of concepts presented in the textbook. In the Seventh Edition extra activities have been added to the workbook sections and new attention has been given to the cultural targets of each lesson.The Laboratory Manual section opens with an Introduction to Spanish Sounds, and each regular lesson of the Laboratory Manual includes pronunciation, structure, listening- and speaking practice, illustration-based listening comprehenson, and dictation exercises to be used in conjunction with the audio program.