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Punto y aparte: Spanish in Review: Moving Toward Fluency, 2/e

Sharon W. Foerster
Anne Lambright, Trinity College
Fátima Alfonso-Pinto, The University of the South

Feature Summary

While ideal for the 4th semester Spanish course for schools that use a 1st year book for 3 semesters, Punto y aparte can be used in the first semester of an Intermediate Spanish sequence. In addition, it can also be used in a two-semester course, in tandem with other supplementary materials such as readers. This book offers great flexibility.
The Instructor's Manual t/a Punto y aparte is particularly useful and contains very explicit teaching suggestions and other ideas for maximizing the potential of the textbook.
Although each chapter highlights at least one of the seven communicative functions in turn, all seven are integrated into the chapter's oral and written work. The puntos clave are the grammar points needed to accurately realize these functions.
Green grammar pages found at the back of the book provide grammatical explanation and exercises for the structures that support the 7 communicative goals.
Vocabulary is contemporary and inspiring for an Intermediate Spanish textbook.
The workbook/laboratory manual contains sections that provide practice with the chapter's new vocabulary and the puntos clave through a variety of controlled and open-ended exercises. In every other chapter a diagnostic test enables students to self-check their control of the grammar needed to accurately express the seven communicative functions. In addition there are pronunciation and listening comprehension activities.
The focus of Punto y aparte on key grammatical structures contributes to the manageable brevity of the textbook. Rather than reviewing the complete scope and sequence of grammar, this book concentrates on those structures critical to the seven communicative functions and central to intermediate level study.

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