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Puntos de partida by Thalia Dorwick and Ana María Pérez-Gironés

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1 Ante todo

2 En la universidad

3 La familia

4 De compras

5 En casa

6 Las estaciones y el tiempo

7 ¡A comer!

8 De viaje

9 Los días festivos

10 El tiempo libre

11 La salud

12 ¡Conectad@s!

13 El arte y la cultura

14 Las presiones de la vida

15 La naturaleza y el medio ambiente

16 La vida social y afectiva

17¿Trabajar para vivir o vivir para trabajar?

18 La actualidad

Appendices

1. Glossary of Grammatical Terms

2. Using Adjectives as Nouns

3. More About Stressed Possessives

4. Additional Perfect Forms (Indicative and Subjunctive)

5. Verbs

Vocabulary

Spanish-English Vocabulary

English-Spanish Vocabulary

Index

Mandatos y frases comunes en el salón de clase

Selected Verb Forms

Maps

About the Author

Thalia Dorwick

Thalia Dorwick has taught at Allegheny College, California State University (Sacramento), and Case Western Reserve University, where she received her Ph.D. in Spanish in 1973. She has been recognized as an Outstanding Foreign Language Teacher by the California Foreign Language Teachers Association. Dr. Dorwick is the coauthor of several textbooks and the author of several articles on language teaching issues.

Ana María Pérez-Gironés

Ana María Pérez-Gironés is an adjunct Professor of Spanish at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. She received a Licenciatura en Filología Anglogermánica from the Universidad de Sevilla in 1985, and her M.A. in General Linguistics from Cornell University in 1988. Her professional interests include second language acquisition and the integration of cultural competence and technology in language teaching

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