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It's more than a text. It's a program.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 classroom, Puntos delivers proven pedagogy with clear and effective presentations, comprehensive teaching resources, and powerfully adaptive digital tools.Now in its anniversary Tenth Edition, Puntos builds on the holistic, five-skills approach it pioneered. It's the Puntos you know. It's the Puntos of today.Puntos hallmark features include:Engaging and Immersive Digital Tools: Connect Spanish is the most powerful and flexible course management system available. Rooted in research on effective student learning practices, the platform integrates 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. Connect Spanish also provides the instructor with both the ability and flexibility to pull from the robust set of content available in the platform and craft a unique learning path based on the goals of the course. With Practice Spanish: Study Abroad, the market's first 3-D immersive language game designed exclusively by McGraw-Hill, Puntos brings the language to the students in a fun, engaging, and immersive gaming experience.Students "study abroad" virtually in Colombia where they will create their very own avatar, live with a host family, make new friends, and navigate a variety of real-world scenarios using their quickly developing Spanish language skills. The first and only analytics tool of its kind, Connect Insight is a series of visual data displays-each framed by an intuitive question-to provide instructors at-a-glance information regarding how your class is doing. Connect Insight provides analysis on five key insights, available at a moment's notice from your Connect course. A Comprehensive scope and sequence: The comprehensive scope and sequence allows instructors to choose what to cover throughout the course without having to supplement their own materials to fill gaps present in other texts.Carefully arranged organization: the overall organization carefully 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: Puntos' approach to vocabulary and grammar focuses 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. These explanations are now even more accessible to students, featuring conversational language, increased clarity,additional examples, and organization of complex, dense explanations into manageable chunks of concise grammar summary. Integrated four-skills approach: Puntos carefully sequences activities, moving students from controlled to free-form tasks. In the tenth edition, this overall scaffolding is improved and introduced at the individual activity level.Starting with the very first activity fol
Contents
Capitulo 1 Ante todo Vocabulary and PronunciationPrimera parteSaludos y expresiones de cortesiaEl alfabeto espanolGrammar?Como es usted? (Part 1)Los numeros del 0 al 30; HayLos gustos y preferencias (Part 1)?Que hora es?Capitulo 2 En la universidadVocabulary and PronunciationEn el salon de claseLas materiasGrammarNaming People, Places, Things, and Ideas (Part 1): Singular Nouns: Gender and ArticlesNaming People, Places, Things, and Ideas (Part 2): Nouns and Articles: Plural FormsGetting Information (Part 1): Asking Yes/No Questions?Que hora es?Cultura: Los Estados Unidos de AmericaCapitulo 3 La familiaVocabulary and PronunciationLa familia y los parientesLos numeros del 31 a 100Los adjectivosGrammarDescribing: Adjectives: Gender, Number, and PositionExpressing to be: Present Tense of ser; Summary of Uses (Part 2)Expressing Possession: Unstressed Possessive Adjectives (Part 1)Expressing Actions: Present Tense of -er and -ir Verbs; Subject Pronouns (Part 2)Cultura: MexicoCapitulo 4 De comprasVocabulary and PronunciationDe compras: La ropaLos colores: ?De que color es?Los numeros a partir del 100GrammarPointing Out People and Things: Demonstrative Adjectives (Part 2) and PronounsExpressing Actions and States: Tener, venir, poder, preferir, querer; Some Idioms with tenerExpressing Destination and Future Actions: Ir; The Contraction al; Ir + a + InfinitiveCultura: Guatemala y HondurasCapitulo 5 En casaVocabulary and PronunciationLos muebles , los curators y otras partes de la casa?Que dia es hoy??Cuando?: Las preposiciones (Part 1)GrammarExpressing Actions: Hacer, oir, poner, salir, traer, verExpressing Actions: Present Tense of Stem-changing Verbs (Part 2)Expressing -self/-selves: Reflexive Pronouns (Part 1)Cultura: El Salvador y NicaraguaCapitulo 6 Las estaciones y el tiempoVocabulary and Pronunciation?Que tiempo hace hoy?Los meses y las estaciones?Donde esta?: Las preposiciones (Part 2)Grammar?Que estan haciendo?: Present Progressive: Estar + -ndo?Ser o estar?: Summary of the Uses of ser and estarDescribing: ComparisonsCultura: Costa RicaCapitulo 7 !A comer!Vocabulary and PronunciationLa comida y las comidas?Que sabe Ud. y a quien conoce?GrammarExpressing what or who(m): Direct Objects: The Personal a; Direct Object PronounsExpressing Negation: Indefinite and Negative WordsInfluencing Others: Commands (Part 1): Formal CommandsCultura: PanamaCapitulo 8 De viajeVocabulary and PronunciationDe viajeDe vacacionesGrammarExpressing to who(m) or for who(m): Indirect Object Pronouns; Dar and decirExpressing Likes and Dislikes: Gustar (Part 2)Talking About the Past (Part 1): Preterite of Regular Verbs and of dar, hacer, ir, and serCultura: La Republica DominicanaCapitulo 9 Los dias festivosVocabulary and PronunciationUna fiesta de cumpleanos para JavierLas emociones y los estados afectivosGrammarTalking About the Past (Part 2): Irregular PreteritesTalking About the Past (Part 3): Preterite of Stem-changing VerbsAvoiding Repetition: Expressing Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns TogetherCultura: CubaCapitulo 10 El tiempo libreVocabulary and PronunciationLos pasatiempos, diversions y aficionesLos quehaceres domesticosGrammarTalking About the Past (Part 4): Descriptions and Habitual Actions in the Past: Imperfect of Regular and Irregular VerbsGetting Information (Part 2): Summary of Interrogative WordsExpressing Extremes: SuperlativesCultura: Puerto RicoCapitulo 11 La saludVocabulary and PronunciationLa salud y el bienestarEn el consultorio del medicoGrammarTalking About the Past (Part 5): Using the Preterite and the ImperfectRecognizing que, quien(es), lo que: Relative PronounsExpressing each other (Part 2): Reciprocal Actions with Reflexive PronounsCultura: VenezuelaCapitulo 12 !Conestad@s!Vocabulary and PronunciationLa ciudad y el barrioLa tecnologiaGrammarInfluencing Others (Part 2): Tu (Informal) CommandsExpressing Subjective Actions or States: Present Subjunctive (Part 1): An IntroductionExpressing Desires and Requests: Use of the Subjunctive (Part 2): InfluenceCultura: ColombiaCapitulo 13 El arte y la culturaVocabulary and PronunciationLos artesLos ordinalesGrammarExpressing Feelings: Use of the Subjunctive (Part 3): EmotionExpressing Uncertainty: Use of the Subjunctive (Part 4): Doubt and DenialExpressing Influence, Emotion, Doubt, and Denial: The Subjunctive (Part 5): A SummaryCultura: El Ecuador y BoliviaCapitulo 14 Las presiones de la vida modernaVocabulary and PronunciationLas presiones de la vida academica!Que mala suerta!GrammarTelling How Long Something Has Been Happening or How Long Ago Something Happened: Hace... que: Another Use of hacerExpressing Unplanned or Unexpected Events: Another Use of se?Por o para?: A Summary of Their UsesCultura: El PeruCapitulo 15 La naturaleza y el medio ambianteVocabulary and PronunciationLa ciudad y el campoLos vehiculosGrammarMas descripciones: Past Participle Used as an Adjective?Que has hecho?: Perfect Forms: Present Perfect Indicative and Present Perfect SubjunctiveCultura: La Argentina y El UruguayCapitulo 16 La vida social y afectivaVocabulary and PronunciationLas relaciones sentimentalesLas etapas de vidaGrammar?Hay alguien que... ? ?Hay un lugar donde... ?: The Subjunctive (Part 6): The Subjunctive After Nonexisting and Indefinite AntecedentsLo hago para que tu...: The Subjunctive (Part 7): The Subjunctive After Conjunctions of Purpose and ContingencyCultura: El ParaguayCapitulo 17 ?Trabajar para vivir or vivir para trabajar?Vocabulary and PronunciationLas profesiones y los oficiosEl mundo laboralUna cuestion de dineroGrammarTalking About the Future: Future Verb FormsExpressing Future or Pending Actions: The Subjunctive (Part 8): The Subjunctive and Indicative After Conjunctions of TimeCultura: ChileCapitulo 18 La actualidadVocabulary and PronunciationLas noticiasEl gobierno y la responsabilidad civicaGrammarQueriamos que todo el mundo votara: The Subjunctive (Part 9): The Past SubjunctiveExpressing What You Would Do: Conditional Verb FormsCultura: Espana
