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Destinos Student Edition w/Listening comprehension Audio CD, 2nd Edition
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This video-based text for Beginning Spanish underscores McGraw-Hill’s reputation for developing groundbreaking language materials. Based on 26 hours of an engaging video drama that takes viewers around the Spanish-speaking world, Destinos is an effective program that can be used successfully in Spanish classes, as a college course for distant learners, and by individuals studying on their own.
Note: A comprehensive listing of contents for Lección 1 and Lección 2 is provided here, as representative of the other lessons. For Lección 3—Lección 52 only the grammatical structure of focus is indicated.
Lección 1 La carta
Before Viewing: Preparación After Viewing: ¿Tienes buena memoria? Vocabulario del tema: Los cognados Un poco de gramática: Expressing is/are Vocabulario
Lección 2 El secreto
Before Viewing: Preparación After Viewing: ¿Tienes buena memoria? Nota cultural: Las familias hispánicas Vocabulario del tema: Los miembros de la familia Un poco de gramática: Expressing Possession Lectura cultural: La Guerra Civil española Intercambio Vocabulario
Lección 3 El comienzo
Using Verbs to Talk About Others
Lección 4 Perdido
Describing
Lección 5 La despedida
Using Verbs to Talk About Group Activities
Lección 6 ¿Maestra?
Repaso de los Episodios 1-5
Lección 7 La cartera
Expressing knowing
Lección 8 El encuentro
More about Verbs
Lección 9 Estaciones
More About Talking About Yourself
Lección 10 Cuadros
More About Talking About Group Activities
Lección 11 La demora
Repaso de los Episodios 7-10
Lección 12 Revelaciones
Using Verbs to Talk About the Past
Lección 13 La búsqueda
More About Using Verbs to Talk About the Past
Lección 14 En el extranjero
More About Using Verbs to Talk About the Past
Lección 15 Culpable
More About Using Verbs to Talk About the Past
Lección 16 Caras
More About Using Verbs to Talk About the Past
Lección 17 Inolvidable
More About Using Verbs to Talk About the Past
Lección 18 Estimada Sra. Suárez
Repaso de los Episodios 12-17
Lección 19 Por fin...
Describing What Was Happening While...
Lección 20 Relaciones estrechas
More About Using the Imperfect
Lección 21 El peaje
More About the Imperfect
Lección 22 Recuerdos
More About Using the Imperfect
LLección 23 Vista al mar
Describing What Someone Was Doing
Lección 24 El don Juan
Additional Uses of Some Preterite Forms
Lección 25 Reflexiones I
Repaso de los Episodios 1-18
Lección 26 Reflexiones II
Repaso de los Episodios 19-24
Lección 27 El rescate
Another Way to Talk About the Future
Lección 28 Atrapados
More About Talking About the Future
Lección 29 ¡Se derrumbó!
Talking About What People Want Others to Do
Lección 30 Preocupaciones
Expressing Your Feelings About Something
Lección 31 Medidas drásticas
Another Way to Talk About the Future
Lección 32 Ha habido un accidente
Telling Someone to Do Something
Lección 33 Si supieras...
Telling Someone to Do Something
Lección 34 Éxito
Talking About What Someone Has Done
Lección 35 Reunidos
Expressing Hope
Lección 36 ¿Qué estarán haciendo?
Repaso de los Episodios 27-35
Lección 37 Llevando cuentas
Talking About What You Wanted Someone to Do
Lección 38 Ocultando la verdad
More About Talking About the Past
Lección 39 La misma sonrisa
More About Talking About the Past
Lección 40 Entre la espada y la pared
Talking About What You Would Do
Lección 41 Algo inesperado
Quoting What Someone Said
Lección 42 Yo invito
Expressing What Would Happen If...
Lección 43 Seremos cuatro
Talking About What Had Happened Before
Lección 44 Una promesa y una sonrisa
More Talking About What Had Happened
Lección 45 ¡Estoy harta!
Talking About What Someone Should Have Done
Lección 46 Las empanadas
Expressing If..., then...
Lección 47 Tengo dudas
Expressing Relationships Between Events
Lección 48 Así fue (I)
Lección 49 Así fue (II)
Lección 50 Así fue (III)
Lección 51 Así fue (IV)
Lección 52 Siempre lo amó
Appendix 1: Answer Section
Appendix 2: Verb Charts
Spanish-English Vocabulary
Index of Characters
About the Author
Bill VanPatten
Bill VanPatten is Professor and Director of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies at Texas Tech University. His areas of research are input and input processing in second language acquisition and the effects of formal instruction on acquisitional processes. He has published widely in the fields of second language acquisition and language teaching and is a frequent conference speaker and presenter. His publications include Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (with James F. Lee, 2003,McGraw-Hill), From Input to Output: A Teacher’s Guide to Second Language Acquisition (2003, McGraw-Hill), Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Practice (2004, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) and most recently, Theories in Second Language Acquisition: An Introduction (with Jessica Williams, 2007, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). He is the lead author of Vistazos, ¿Sabías que...?, Destinos and Sol y viento. Dr. VanPatten is the 2007 recipient of the Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education, awarded jointly by ACTFL and NYSAFLT. When not engaged in academic activities, he writes fiction and performs stand-up comedy. He has recently published his first work of fiction, a collection of short stories titled Chicago Tales, published by Outskirts Press (2007).
Martha Marks
Martha Alford Marks received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Co-author of ¿Qué tal? and Destinos, a Spanish video course, she also served on the Advisory Board to Boston PBS station WGBH during the development of the Destinos program, which was funded by the Annenberg Foundation. She is widely known as an ACTFL-certified oral proficiency tester and trainer in Spanish and ESL.
Richard V. Teschner
Richard V. Teschner received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Spanish Linguistics. He has taught at UW-Parkside, the University of Iowa, and (since 1976) the University of Texas at El Paso, where in 1988 he became a full professor in the Department of Languages and Linguistics. His publications include four edited anthologies, two book-length bibliographies, a placement exam, and a dictionary of Mexican-American Spanish, along with several editions of seven textbooks such as Español escrito: Curso para hispanohablantes bilingües; Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish; and Analyzing the Grammar of English: A Brief Undergraduate Textbook. He has published four dozen articles in professional journals along with an equal number of papers and keynote addresses. In 1988 he served as president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese and also of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.
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