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Eduardo Zayas-Bazán is a native of Camaguey, Cuba. He holds an M.S. in foreign languages from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, KS, and a Doctor en Derecho degree from Universidad Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba. He is a Professor Emeritus in Foreign Languages from East Tennessee State University, where he was chair of the Foreign Language Department from 1973 to 1993. Over the course of his distinguished career, Zayas-Bazán has received numerous awards in recognition of his professional achievements and has held noteworthy positions within many organizations dedicated to teaching Spanish. In addition to writing numerous articles in regional and national journals, he is the co-author, co-editor, and translator of seventeen books.
Susan M. Bacon earned her Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education and Spanish Linguistics from The Ohio State University. She is a professor Emerita at the University of Cincinnati where she was Professor of Spanish and Acting Director for the Institute for Global Studies and Affairs. She has been Project Director of a four-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Fulbright-Robles Scholar in Mexico. She has published extensively in the area of foreign language acquisition and methodology, particularly in the use of authentic listening and reading text.
Dulce Garcia, PhD Georgetown University, is an Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the City College of New York, CUNY, where she specializes in late Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature, Spanish linguistics, critical theory, and foreign language pedagogy. She is the director of the CCNY-Spain Summer Program, and received CCNY's “Outstanding Teaching Award” for 2007.
Table of Contents
Preface
Capítulo 1: Esas modas que van y vienen
Objetivos comunicativos
• Discussing fashion trends and fads
• Saying what occurred in the past
• Describing in the past
• Talking about the influence of fashion on cars
• Narrating in the past
Vocabulario
¡Así es la vida!
• En esa década
• El automóvil y la moda
¡Así lo decimos!
• Las modas
• Los autos
Estructuras
¡Así lo hacemos!
• The preterit tense
• The imperfect tense
• Preterit vs. imperfect
De nuevo
• Soy una moda (The present indicative)
• Una marca de automóvil que ya no se fabrica (The preterit)
Conéctate
VideoRed: Esas modas pasajeras (Jaime Gómez León, España)
Comunidades: La ropa y el trabajo
Conexiones: ¿Una moda duradera?
Comparaciones: La movida madrileña
Cultura
¡Así lo expresamos!
Imágenes: El arte de la moda (El Corte Inglés, España)
Ritmos: Antes muerta que sencilla (María Isabel López, España)
Páginas: Foro: Esas modas ¿pasajeras? (Anónimo/a)
Taller: Tu propio foro (blog)
Capítulo 2: La tecnología y el progreso
• Discussing environmental issues affecting your world
• Describing people, places, and things
• Describing what will or might be
• Predicting future issues
• Expressing hopes and desires
• Encuesta: El reciclaje y la contaminación ambiental
• Encuesta: La ingeniería genética
• El medio ambiente
• Profesiones y actividades del futuro
• Uses of ser, estar, and haber
• The future tense
• The subjunctive in noun clauses
• Así era (The imperfect)
• Llegaron los humanos (Preterit/imperfect)
VideoRed: El calentamiento global (Andrés Eloy Martínez, México)
Comunidades: Un cartel de servicio público
Conexiones: ¿Un futuro sostenible?
Comparaciones: Sarriguren, una ecociudad modelo
Imágenes: Juanito en la laguna (Antonio Berni, Argentina)
Ritmos: Ska de la tierra (Bebe, España)
Páginas: Los mutantes (José Ruibal, España)
Taller: Expresa tu opinión
Capítulo 3: Los derechos humanos
• Discussing human rights and foreign policy
• Reacting to issues
• Willing others to act
• Discussing the work of charitable organizations
• Describing what is done for you and others
• Expressing likes and opinions
• Libertad, igualdad y fraternidad
• El lado humanitario de Ricky Martin
• Los derechos humanos
• Las organizaciones sin fines de lucro
• Indirect commands
• Direct and indirect object pronouns and the personal a
• Gustar and similar verbs
• Un informe a la Comisión de Derechos Humanos (Ser, estar, and haber)
• Un discurso inaugural (The subjunctive in noun clauses)
VideoRed: Un hogar digno (Habitat for Humanity International, Costa Rica)
Comunidades: Una organización humanitaria
Conexiones: El derecho de vivir en un hogar digno
Comparaciones: Hábitat para la Humanidad
Imágenes: Manos anónimas (Carlos Alonso, Argentina)
Ritmos: Amor y paz (Iván Pérez López, México)
Páginas: Masa (César Vallejo, Perú)
Taller: Crear poesía
Capítulo 4: El individuo y la personalidad
• Talking about yourself and others: personality and routines
• Discussing personality
• Describing people, things, and situations
• Talking about what has happened so far
• ¿Eres imaginativo/a, intuitivo/a o analítico/a?
• ¡Ejercita la mente! Goza de una buena memoria
• Características personales
• La personalidad
• Reflexive constructions
• Agreement form, and position of adjectives
• The past participle and the present perfect indicative and subjunctive
• Una guía sobre el estrés (The subjunctive, indicative, and infinitive with impersonal expressions)
• Preferencias personales (Gustar and similar verbs)
VideoRed: ¡Mejora tu autoestima! (Yasmin Garves, República Dominicana - Pearson VPS)
Comunidades: La importancia de la autoestima
Conexiones: La “personalidad”
Comparaciones: Yo Puedo
Imágenes: Las dos Fridas (Frida Kahlo, México)
Ritmos: Soy (Willie Chirino, Cuba/EE. UU.)
Páginas: A Julia de Burgos (Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico)
Taller: Un perfil para la red social
Capítulo 5: Las relaciones personales
• Talking about styles of communication and relationships with friends and family
• Describing people, places, and things that may or may not exist
• Exploring relationships and how behavior affects perception
• Making resolutions and describing what had or had never happened before
• Describing and comparing people, places, and things
• La comunicación interpersonal
• ¿Qué piensan de ti? Tu lenguaje corporal
• Las relaciones personales
• Los sentimientos y las cualidades
• Subjunctive vs. indicative in adjective clauses
• The future perfect and the pluperfect tenses
• Comparisons with nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs; superlatives
• Confesiones (The present perfect)
• Una amistad duradera (The future tense)
VideoRed: La química del amor (S. M. Bacon, EE. UU. - Pearson VPS)
Comunidades: La comunicación no verbal
Conexiones: La pareja modelo
Comparaciones: Conozcámonos: citas móviles
Imágenes: Madre e hijo (Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, España)
Madre proletaria (María Izquierdo, México)
Ritmos: Don Pedrito (Yarey, Puerto Rico)
Páginas: Waiting for Snow in Havana (Carlos Eire, Cuba/Estados Unidos)
Taller: Un carta de amor
Capítulo 6: El mundo del espectáculo
•Talking about your favorite entertainers and shows
• Talking about actions that depend on time or circumstances
• Talking about music, musicians, and musical events
• Telling others what to do
• Expressing wishes and possibilities for yourself and others
• Eva Longoria Parker: No más desesperada
• ¡Los más calientes!
• El entretenimiento
• La música
• Subjunctive vs. indicative in adverbial clauses
• Formal and informal commands
• Subjunctive with ojalá, tal vez, and quizá(s)
• Los chismes (Preterit and imperfect)
• Una entrevista con famosos (Ser/estar)
VideoRed: Escuela de música (Rafael Alcalá, Musinetwork, EE. UU.)
Comunidades: El calendario de eventos
Conexiones: El artista, el espectáculo y el espectador
Comparaciones: El tango y el cine
Imágenes: ¿Quién lleva el ritmo? (Aída Emart, México)
Ritmos: El Wanabí (Fiel a la Vega, Puerto Rico)
Páginas: El concierto (Augusto Monterroso, Guatemala)
Taller: Una escena dramática
Manual de gramática
Verb Conjugation Tables
Glossary
Index
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