
Puntos (Student Edition), 11th Edition
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Success in the language classroom requires so much more than just a text. In any language-learning setting, students require numerous and various opportunities to read, write, hear, and speak. Puntos de partida sets the standard for Spanish-language teaching. An innovative program that has been continuously refined for today’s class, Puntos delivers proven pedagogy with clear and effective presentations, comprehensive teaching resources, and powerful digital tools. Now in its eleventh edition, Puntos continues to build on the holistic, five-skills approach it pioneered, and offer a wealth of resources for every instructor and every learner. Puntos hallmark features include: A comprehensive scope and sequence that allows instructors to choose what to cover throughout the course without having to supplement their own materials to fill gaps present in other texts. A carefully arranged organization that progresses from formulaic expressions to vocabulary and grammar relevant to daily life and personal interests (studies, family, home, leisure activities), then goes on to prepare students for survival situations (ordering a meal, traveling), and finally branches out to broader themes (current events, social and environment issues). This forward progress is reinforced by a cyclical structure where vocabulary, grammar, and language functions are continuously reviewed and recycled. Clear and effective vocabulary and grammar presentations that focus on the acquisition of vocabulary during the early stages of language learning and then at the start of each chapter throughout the text. Grammar is introduced in thorough explanations, with careful attention given to skills development rather than grammatical knowledge alone. An integrated five-skills approach: One of the defining features of Puntos is its careful sequencing of activities, moving students from controlled to free-form tasks. Building off of the improved scaffolding in the tenth edition, the eleventh edition includes Proyectos, engaging communication tasks positioned at key moments in each chapter that guide students to create in the target language and accomplish a culturally significant goal. Engaging and Immersive Digital Tools: McGraw-Hill’s Connect course management system is rooted in research on effective student learning practices, integrating adaptive learning tools with dynamic, engaging language practice activities. McGraw-Hill’s LearnSmart provides each student with a personalized and adaptive learning experience based on individual needs. Practice Spanish: Study Abroad, the market’s first 3-D immersive language game, brings the Spanish language to students in a fun, engaging experience. Students study abroad virtually in Colombia where they create their own avatar, live with a host family, make new friends, and navigate a variety of real-world scenarios using their quickly developing language skills. Recordable Video Chat powered by GoReact, is a chat tool, now available on Connect, that allows students to practice live, synchronous communication. Voice Board, by GoReact, is a new asynchronous voice tool that gives students the chance to post video, audio, or text comments related to the topic and respond to their classmates’ posts.
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Primera parte
Saludos y expresiones de cortesía
Nota comunicativa Más expresiones de cortesía
Pronunciación Las vocales: a, e, i, o, u
El alfabeto español
Nota comunicativa Los cognados
Segunda parte
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar la hora
Grammar
Primera parte
¿Cómo es usted? (Part 1)
Segunda parte
Los números del 0 al 30; Hay
Nota comunicativa El género y los números
Los gustos y preferencias (Part 1)
¿Qué hora es?
Capítulo 2 En la Universidad
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
En el salón de clase
Las materias
Nota comunicativa Más palabras interrogativas
Pronunciación Diphthongs and Linking
Grammar
Naming People, Places, Things, and Ideas (Part 1) • Singular Nouns: Gender and Articles
Naming People, Places, Things, and Ideas (Part 2) • Nouns and Articles: Plural Forms
Expressing Actions • Subject Pronouns (Part 1) • Present Tense of -ar Verbs; Negation
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar las partes del día
Nota comunicativa El verbo estar
Getting Information (Part 1) • Asking Yes/No Questions
Capítulo 3 La familia
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
La familia y los parientes
Los números del 31 al 100
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar la edad: tener… años
Los adjetivos
Pronunciación Stress and Written Accent Marks (Part 1)
Grammar
Describing • Adjectives: Gender, Number, and Position
Nota comunicativa Otras nacionalidades
Expressing to be • Present Tense of ser; Summary of Uses (Part 2)
Nota comunicativa Cómo dar explicaciones : Porque y para + infinitive
Expressing Possession • Unstressed Possessive Adjectives (Part 1)
Expressing Actions • Present Tense of -er and -ir Verbs; Subject Pronouns (Part 2)
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar la frecuencia de las acciones
Capítulo 4 De compras
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
De compras: La ropa
Nota comunicativa Preguntas coletilla (tag)
Los colores: ¿De qué color es?
Los números a partir del 100
Pronunciación Stress and Written Accent Marks (Part 2)
Grammar
Pointing Out People and Things • Demonstrative Adjectives (Part 2) and Pronouns
Expressing Actions and States • Tener, venir, poder, preferir, querer; Some Idioms with tener
Nota comunicativa Mucho y poco
Expressing Destination and Future Actions • Ir; The Contraction al; Ir + a + infinitive
Capítulo 5 En casa
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Los muebles, los cuartos y otras partes de la casa
¿Qué día es hoy?
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar on con los días de la semana
¿Cuándo? • Las preposiciones (Part 1)
Grammar
Expressing Actions • Hacer, oír, poner, salir, traer, ver
Expressing Actions • Present Tense of Stem-changing Verbs (Part 2)
Expressing -self/-selves • Reflexive Pronouns (Part 1)
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar una secuencia de acciones
Capítulo 6 Las estaciones y el tiempo
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
¿Qué tiempo hace hoy?
Nota comunicativa Otras expresiones con tener
Los meses y las estaciones del año
¿Dónde está?: Las preposiciones (Part 2)
Grammar
¿Qué están haciendo? • Present Progressive: Estar + -ndo
Nota comunicativa El gerundio con otros verbos
¿Ser o estar? • Summary of the Uses of ser and estar
Nota comunicativa El uso de adjetivos + por
Describing • Comparisons
Capítulo 7 ¡A comer!
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
La comida y las comidas
Nota comunicativa Más vocabulario para hablar de la comida
¿Qué sabe usted y a quién conoce?
Grammar
Expressing what or who(m) • Direct Objects: The Personal a; Direct Object Pronouns
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar una acción muy reciente: acabar + de + infinitivo
Expressing Negation • Indefinite and Negative Words
Influencing Others • Commands (Part 1): Formal Commands
Capítulo 8 De viaje
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
De viaje
De vacaciones
Nota comunicativa Otro uso de la palabra se: para expresar acciones impersonales
Grammar
Expressing to whom or for whom • Indirect Object Pronouns; Dar and decir
Expressing Likes and Dislikes • Gustar (Part 2)
Nota comunicativa Otras maneras de expresar los gustos y preferencias
Talking About the Past (Part 1) • Preterite of Regular Verbs and of dar, hacer, ir, and ser
Capítulo 9 Los días festivos
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Una fiesta de cumpleaños para Javier
Las emociones y los estados afectivos
Nota comunicativa Cómo enfatizar: -ísimo
Grammar
Talking About the Past (Part 2) • Irregular Preterites
Talking About the Past (Part 3) • Preterite of Stem-changing Verbs
Avoiding Repetition • Expressing Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns Together
Capítulo 10 El tiempo libre
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Los pasatiempos, diversiones y aficiones
Los quehaceres domésticos
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar la obligación
Grammar
Talking About the Past (Part 4) • Descriptions and Habitual Actions in the Past: Imperfect of Regular and Irregular Verbs
Nota comunicativa El progresivo en el pasado
Getting Information (Part 2) • Summary of Interrogative Words
Expressing Extremes • Superlatives
Nota comunicativa Los diminutivos
Capítulo 11 La salud
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
La salud y el bienestar
Una cita en el consultorio
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar una cualidad general: lo + adjetivo
Grammar
Talking About the Past (Part 5) • Using the Preterite and the Imperfect
Nota comunicativa Algunas palabras y expresiones asociadas con el pretérito y el imperfecto
Recognizing que, quien(es), lo que • Relative Pronouns
Expressing each other (Part 2) • Reciprocal Actions with Reflexive Pronouns
Capítulo 12 ¡Conectad@s!
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
En el centro de una ciudad
La tecnología
Grammar
Influencing Others (Part 2) • Tú (Informal) Commands
Nota comunicativa Verbos derivados de poner, tener y venir
Expressing Subjective Actions or States • Present Subjunctive (Part 1): An Introduction
Expressing Desires and Requests • Use of the Subjunctive (Part 2): Influence
Capítulo 13 El arte y la cultura
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Las artes
Nota comunicativa Más sobre los gustos y preferencias
Los ordinals
Grammar
Expressing Feelings • Use of the Subjunctive (Part 3): Emotion
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar los deseos con ojalá
Expressing Uncertainty • Use of the Subjunctive (Part 4): Doubt and Denial
Nota comunicativa Verbos que requieren preposiciones
Expressing Influence, Emotion, Doubt, and Denial • The Subjunctive (Part 5): A Summary
Capítulo 14 Las presiones de la vida
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Las presiones de la vida académica
¡Qué mala suerte!
Nota comunicativa Más sobre los adverbios: adjetivo + -mente
Grammar
Telling How Long or How Long Ago Something Happened • Hace… que: Another Use of hacer
Expressing Unplanned or Unexpected Events • Another Use of se
¿Por o para? • A Summary of Their Uses
Capítulo 15 La naturaleza yelmedio ambiente
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
La ciudad y el campo
Los vehículos
Nota comunicativa Frases para indicar cómo llegar a un lugar
Grammar
Más descripciones • Past Participle Used as an Adjective
¿Qué has hecho? • Perfect Forms: Present Perfect Indicative and Present Perfect Subjunctive
Nota comunicativa El pluscuamperfecto: había + participio pasado
Capítulo 16 La vida social y afectiva
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Las relaciones sentimentales
Nota comunicativa El uso del infinitivo como sustantivo
Las etapas de la vida
Grammar
¿Hay alguien que… ? ¿Hay un lugar donde… ? • The Subjunctive (Part 6): The Subjunctive After Nonexistent and Indefinite Antecedents
Lo hago para que tú… • The Subjunctive (Part 7): The Subjunctive After Conjunctions of Purpose and Contingency
Nota comunicativa ¿Para qué? / para (que)… and ¿por qué? / porque…
Capítulo 17¿Trabajar para vivir o vivir para trabajar?
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Las profesiones y los oficios
El mundo laboral
Una cuestión de dinero
Nota comunicativa Más pronombres posesivos
Grammar
Talking About the Future • Future Verb Forms
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar probabilidad con el futuro
Expressing Future or Pending Actions • The Subjunctive (Part 8): The Subjunctive and Indicative After Conjunctions of Time
Capítulo 18 La actualidad
Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Las noticias
El gobierno y la responsabilidad cívica
Lectura cultural final
El español en el resto del mundo
• La Guinea Ecuatorial
• Las Islas Filipinas
• El Canadá
Grammar
Queríamos que todo el mundo votara • The Subjunctive (Part 9): The Past Subjunctive
Nota comunicativa Cómo expresar deseos imposibles
Expressing What You Would Do • Conditional Verb Forms
Nota comunicativa Cláusulas con si
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


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