Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice with CD-ROM, Second Edition

by Gordon, Ronni; Stillman, David

• ISBN13: 9780071744188
• ISBN10: 0071744185
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780071492157, 9780071847582
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2010-12-28
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary

Gain confidence in your Spanish-language communication using the method trusted by more than 200,000 students

The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice gives you a good grasp of grammar so you can build your skills and confidence in communication. Each grammatical concept is explained and illustrated with engaging sentence examples; you'll also get extensive exercises offer practice at applying this knowledge in everyday conversation.

This book/CD-ROM package includes:

-More than 400 exercises, in addition to 200 exercises on the accompanying CD-ROM

-A Pre-Test that identifies your strengths and weaknesses and a Post-Test that helps you review your progress, both on the CD-ROM

-Bonus online content, including audio exercises as well as internet-based activities focused on key cultural website across the Spanish-speaking world

A revision of the bestselling intermediate-level Spanish grammar and review, featuring over 600 exercises in book and CD-ROM, supported by online audio practice and cultural website activities- providing a highly interactive and comprehensive way to practice and review grammar for confident communication.

The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice is founded on the principle that a good grasp of grammar is necessary for learner to build skill and confidence in communication. This highly successful title provides the "ultimate" way for intermediate and advanced learners to brush up on the rules. Each grammatical concept is explained and then illustrated with lively sentence examples; extensive exercises offer practice at applying this knowledge in everyday conversation.

The extensive practice component of the book includes more than 400 exercises, in addition to 200 exercises on the accompanying CD-ROM. These engaging exercises are contextualized, with scene-setting instructions in Spanish, to ensure relevance to practice conversational and writing requirements. The disk also contains a Pre-Test that identifies existing strengths and weaknesses; a Post-Test allows review of progress, as well as audio comprehensions featuring native-Spanish speakers.

In addition to new exercises reflecting up-to-date usage, the second edition features bonus online content, including audio exercises as well as internet-based activities focused on key cultural website across the Spanish-speaking world.

New edition is thoroughly updated and complemented with extensive online component: 50 audio exercises plus additional questions on key cultural Spanish-language websites.

Intended for learners from intermediate to advanced level, for high school, AP, college level and adult students, this review and workbook presents a powerful tool for reviewing and mastering Spanish grammar. Benefit to the Customer Provides thorough practice to ensure mastery of Spanish grammar forms with over 700 exercises.

Author Biography

Ronni L. Gordon, Ph.D. is a prominent author of foreign language textbooks, reference books, and materials for multimedia. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish language and Spanish and Latin American History and Literature from Rutgers University, and taught at Harvard and Boston University. She is an education consultant specializing in curriculum development in foreign languages, literature, and history, and teacher training.David M. Stillman, Ph.D. is a well-known writer of foreign language textbooks, multimedia courses, and reference books. He holds a Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics from the University of Illinois and taught at Harvard, Boston University, and Cornell. He is a professor at The College of New Jersey where he teaches Italian, Spanish, French, and Hebrew

Table of Contents

Pre-Test

Verbs:

The present tense

Ser & estar

Stem-changing verbs & verbs with spelling changes

The preterit tense

The imperfect tense

The future & conditional tenses

Reflective verbs

Passive constructions

The perfect tenses

The gerund & the progressive tenses

The subjunctive in noun clauses: present & present perfect subjective

The imperfect subjective & past perfect subjective conditional sentences

The subjective adverb & adjective clauses

Commands

The infinitive Nouns and Their Modifiers; Pronouns:

Nouns & articles

Adjectives

Demonstratives & possessives

Personal pronouns: subject, object, prepositional

Relative pronouns Other Elements of the Sentence

Adverbs

Prepositions

Interrogative words & question formation

Negative & indefinite words

Numbers; dates; time Part Four: Idiomatic Usage

Idiom, expressions, & proverbs

Word formation & diminutives

¡Ojo! Common errors & pitfalls

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