James F. Lee,
Indiana University Dolly Jesusita Young,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville Darlene F. Wolf,
Late, University of Alabama Paul Michael Chandler,
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
ISBN: 0072850485 Copyright year: 2003
Feature Summary
¿Qué te parece? is highly innovative yet extremely practical in its task-based approach. Rather than asking students to do activities that are contrived or have no context, ¿Qué te parece? asks students to use their Spanish to complete specific – and practical – goals or tasks. The benefit to this approach is that students stay engaged in the activities and derive a greater sense of accomplishment and purpose from them.
The text and workbook together offer a well-rounded package. The text is largely suited to in-class communicative activities, while the workbook offers out-of-class language practice with more focused drill and practice.
The grammar in ¿Qué te parece? consistently throughout the text touches upon first-year grammar topics, then expands upon a given point as appropriate.
¿Qué te parece? is organized into six thematic units: Communication and culture; religion and popular beliefs; the environment; television; human rights, liberty, the church and state, sexism, racism, and censorship; and cultural perspectives and images. Through this diversity of topics, students receive a wide range of perspectives of the world in which they live. This real-world approach fosters critical thinking as well as an opportunity to discuss and share ideas as students delve deeper into the Spanish-speaking world.
A simplified and systematic lesson structure: Six thematic units with four lessons each. The first two lessons emphasize vocabulary, grammar, and communicative activities; the third lesson presents art and literature; and the fourth, review and composition.
Each Ideas para explorar section opens with a set of questions relevant to the themes of the activities in the section.
A Portafolio cultural feature at the end of every unit contains optional, open-ended activities based on a wide variety of media: video (text-specific), television, movies, music, art and literature, and the Internet. These activities provide great ideas for a unit-ending or semester-ending project.
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