Lanterna Rally

Author: Phillip Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780618512898

This conversation text implements a dynamic, learner-centered approach that encourages students to use Spanish to resolve meaningful and emotionally charged conflicts. Carefully crafted Conversaciones creadoras, mini-dramas written exclusively for this text by renowned Spanish novelist Carmen MartÍn Gaite, challenge students to become active participants in the learning process. New! A lively, two-color design as well as new realia and art enhances the text's visual appeal. New! Correlating grammar to the creative conversations in each chapter, new Enlace gramatical review sections highlight and practice a grammar point in order to promote the creative use of language. Revised! Engaging Conversaciones creadoras mini-dramas inspire creative thinking. Students react and devise original endings to these engaging, unfinished vignettes, and additional supporting practice checks their comprehension and builds inferential skills. A new vignette in Chapter 1--written by Carmen MartÍn Gaite--presents a dramatization of a family checking into a hotel. New! Expanded cultural program invites cross-cultural comparison. Updates to cultural material include enriching information on the countries and regions of Hispanic America, comprehension questions that encourage cultural comparisons, and expansion activities that initiate research of Spanish-language web sites. Updated! A wide variety of task-based practice activities fosters active participation and promotes creative expression: personalized questions, activities and projects for pair and small group work, thematic role-play activities centered on information-gap situations, illustration- and realia-based exercises, and topics for class discussion or writing assignments. Revised! A range of practice encourages vocabulary building. Students practice active vocabulary through word analogies, synonym and antonym practice, word definitions, and paragraph or dialogue completions. The text encourages them to create personal lexicons and to broaden their vocabulary base by using optional words and expressions to complete chapter assignments. New! Expanded teaching and learning support includes an in-text audio CD and instructor and student web sites.