Better Reading Spanish, 2nd Edition

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
McGraw-Hill Education | 2e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9780071770316
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McGraw-Hill Education 2e druk, 2011 9780071770316
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Sharpen your Spanish language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and culture

Better Reading Spanish offers you entertaining, "real world" texts to help you understand and learn more Spanish vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history. Along the way, you will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. The articles become gradually more difficult as you proceed through the book to keep you challenged and engaged.

Better Reading Spanish is an easy, engaging way to boost your language skills and learn more about the language and its speakers as you go.

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ISBN13:9780071770316
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Druk:2

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Preface<br/>How to use this book<br/>La cocina<br/>Guía para la buena alimentación A nutrition chart<br/>Menú de México A menu from a Mexican restaurant<br/>Gazpacho A recipe from a Spanish cookbook<br/>Piña The story of a fruit native to the Americas<br/>El cumpleaños de Frida Kahlo A Mexican dinner party<br/>Pastel chabela An excerpt from a Mexican novel<br/>La música<br/>Discos A magazine review of compact discs<br/>La música y vitalidad de Compay Segundo A Cuban musician<br/>Los premios Grammy Latinos The Latin Grammys<br/>Los Rabanes A Panamanian group<br/>Del Gado y la música andina Keeping Inca music alive<br/>Tomatito A Flamenco artist<br/>El tango The Argentine music and dance<br/>Si se calla el cantor An Argentine folk song<br/>Recuerdos de la niñez Excerpts from three novels: one Puerto Rican, one Spanish, one Peruvian<br/>Los deportes<br/>Todos somos Guerreros A flyer from a baseball game<br/>Deportes acuáticos en Costa Rica Diverse water sports<br/>Lorena Ochoa, golfista extraordinaria Mexico’s star female golfer<br/>Más allá del béisbol, la vida de Roberto Clemente A baseball legend<br/>El ciclismo y la salud The benefits of cycling<br/>Top 7 de ejercicios que queman muchas calorías Calorie-burning activities<br/>Lo que se necesita para ganar Winning in the NBA<br/>Noticias históricas del béisbol Baseball news<br/>Tres historias Soccer stories retold by a Uruguayan author<br/>El cine y el teatro<br/>Películas hispanas ganadoras al Óscar por Mejor Película de Habla no Inglesa Best foreign film Oscar winners<br/>Solas A Spanish movie<br/>Todo sobre mi madre A Spanish Oscar<br/>Carlos Saura A Spanish filmmaker<br/>Yo nunca quise ser escritor A Chilean writer and movie critic<br/>Fundación Arlequín Teatro A program from a theater in Paraguay<br/>El fabricante de deudas An excerpt from a Peruvian play<br/>El arte<br/>Museos A tourist leaflet from Honduras<br/>El arco iris A poem by a Mexican painter<br/>El muralismo mexicano The story of mural painting in Mexico<br/>Frida Kahlo A Mexican painter<br/>Pablo Picasso Spanish genius<br/>Salvador Dalí An individualist from Spain<br/>Fernando Botero A painter and sculptor from Colombia<br/>A la manera de Frida Kahlo An Argentine poet on a Mexican painter<br/>Graffiti A poem about another painter<br/>La familia<br/>El árbol familiar A family tree<br/>La celebración del matrimonio The wedding ceremony<br/>A mi hija Flor de María A father’s poem<br/>La familia: un invento maravilloso A young mother’s reflections<br/>La familia de Marcela A nontraditional family<br/>Un padre A famous father<br/>Los abuelos Traditional and modern games in Mexico<br/>Cuentos Family relationships in prose from Bolivia<br/>La primera clase de ballet A daughter’s first dance lesson<br/>El estilo de vida hoy<br/>Persiguiendo el sueño bilingüe Bringing up a child bilingually<br/>Mi PC A song from the Dominican Republic<br/>Cristina The Cuban-American talk show hostess<br/>Oscar de la Renta Fashion designer from the Dominican Republic<br/>Carolina Herrera, qué mujer New York designer from Venezuela<br/>Edward James Olmos: Embajador de la buena voluntad Mexican-American goodwill ambassador<br/>Un día insólito A day in the life of a modern man—Excerpt from a novel<br/>La historia y la política<br/>Cronología A time line<br/>Simón Bolívar Sayings of a South American hero<br/>Celebrando la independencia Bolivian Independence Day customs<br/>El Canal de Panamá An engineering marvel<br/>La pacifista A Colombian peacemaker<br/>Mario Vargas Llosa, el político detrás del escritor The political side of the Nobel Laureate<br/>Ernesto Che Guevara Life of the Argentine-born revolutionary<br/>Una conversación entre marido y mujer An Argentine power couple—Excerpt from a novel<br/>Continuing to read<br/>Answer key<br/>Acknowledgments<br/>ch60_fn01

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