Full Description
FUENTES, is a two-volume intermediate Spanish program presenting an integrated skills approach to intermediate Spanish that develops both receptive and productive skills simultaneously. FUENTES is made up of FUENTES: CONVERSACIÓN Y GRAMÁTICA (FCG) and FUENTES: LECTURA Y REDACCIÓN (FLR). Although FUENTES: CONVERSACIÓN Y GRAMÁTICA and FUENTES: LECTURA Y REDACCIÓN are designed to be used together, they can also be used independently of each other. Each chapter in FUENTES: CONVERSACIÓN Y GRAMÁTICA, Fifth Edition focuses on theme, and grammar and vocabulary presentations that are based on language functions.
The FUENTES program approach and philosophy:
We learn by doing. By using the language to communicate original thoughts, in oral and written form, and by interacting with written texts and recorded conversations, students will acquire a high degree of proficiency.
Skill integration promotes language development. Each skill reinforces the others; therefore, students learn to comprehend and produce language while practicing specific strategies for listening, reading, and writing.
Contents
Fuentes: Conversación y gramática.
Capítulo Preliminar LA VIDA UNIVERSITARIA.
Introducing Yourself and Others.
Obtaining and Giving Information about Class Schedules.
Las materias académicas.
Expressing Likes and Dislikes.
Gustar and Other Verbs: Describing Classes, Professors, and Students, Testing Your Knowledge of Spanish.
1. NUESTRAS COSTUMBRES.
Podcast: Un conflicto de identidad. Narrating in the Present. A. Regular, Stem-Changing, and Irregular Verbs. B. Reflexive Constructions: Discussing Nightlife. La vida nocturna (Vocabulario): Obtaining and Giving Information. ¿Qué? and ¿cuál? Avoiding Redundancies. Subject and Direct-Object Pronouns: Más allá. Videofuentes: Book (video cómico). Proyecto: Un anuncio publicitario: Recycled Material: The Present Indicative; Ir a + Infinitive; Verbs Like Gustar.
2. ESPAÑA: PASADO Y PRESENTE.
Podcast: Un anuncio histórico: Narrating in the Past (Part One): A. The Preterit B. Narrating in the Past: Meanings Conveyed by Certain Verbs C. Indicating When Actions Took Place: Time Expressions D. Indicating Sequence: Adverbs of Time E. Past Actions That Preceded Other Past Actions: The Pluperfect: Discussing Movies. El cine (Vocabulario): Stating Time and Age in the Past. The Imperfect: Más allá. Película: La lengua de las mariposas: Recycled Material: The Present Indicative; Telling Time.
3. LA AMÉRICA PRECOLOMBINA.
Podcast: La leyenda del maíz: Narrating in the Past (Part Two).
A. Preterit and Imperfect: Part One. B. Preterit and Imperfect: Part Two:
Describing People and Things. A. Descripción física (Vocabulario). B. Personalidad (Vocabulario): Describing. A. Ser and estar + adjective. B. The Past Participle as an Adjective: Indicating the Beneficiary of an Action. The Indirect Object: Más allá.
Videofuentes: Quiero ser charro (anuncio informativo) Proyecto: La leyenda de la llorona: Recycled Material: The Present Indicative; The Preterit; Time Expressions.
4. LLEGAN LOS INMIGRANTES.
Podcast: Charla con nuestro nuevo amigo cubano. Discussing Immigration. La inmigración (Vocabulario): Expressing Past Intentions, Obligations, and Knowledge. Preterit and Imperfect (Part Three): Expressing Abstract Ideas. Lo + adjective and lo que: Expressing Accidental or Unintentional Occurrences Unintentional se, Narrating and Describing in the Past. Summary of Preterit and Imperfect: Discussing the Past with Present Relevance. The Present Perfect: Más allá. Película: Al otro lado: Recycled Material: The Present Indicative; The Preterit; The Imperfect; Time Expressions.
5. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS: SABROSA FUSIÓN DE CULTURAS.
Podcast: Cátedra y comida: Suggesting, Persuading, and Advising: A. The Present Subjunctive.
B. Giving Indirect Commands and Information: Decir que + subjunctive or indicative. Giving Direct Commands: A. Affirmative and Negative Commands with Ud. and Uds. B. Affirmative and Negative Commands with tú and vosotros: Discussing Food. La comida (Vocabulario): Informing and Giving Instructions. Impersonal and Passive se: Más allá. Videofuentes: Marca Perú (propaganda cómica). Proyecto: Una receta: Recycled Material: The Imperfect; Direct-Object Pronouns; Indirect-Object Pronouns; The Preterit; Stem-Changing and Reflexive Verbs in the Present Indicative.
6. NUEVAS DEMOCRACIAS.
Podcast: El otro 11 de septiembre: Expressing Feelings and Opinions about Future, Present, and Past Actions and Events: A. The Present Subjunctive. B. The Present Perfect Subjunctive: Discussing Politics. La política (Vocabulario): Expressing Belief and Doubt about Future, Present, and Past Actions and Events. The Present Subjunctive: Forming Complex Sentences
The Relative Pronouns que and quien: Indicating Cause, Purpose, Destination, etc. Por and para: Más allá. Videofuentes: Los jóvenes que preservaron la Memoria (documental) Proyecto: Una viñeta política: Recycled Material: The Imperfect; The Present Indicative; The Preterit; Ser and estar + adjective.
7. NUESTRO MEDIO AMBIENTE.
Podcast: Unas vacaciones diferentes: D
