Charlas de sobremesa : Conversación en español / Teresa Carballal, Margarita Ribas Groeger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carballal, Teresa, Author.

Ribas Groeger, Margarita, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Spoken Spanish.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Aimed at third-year students of Spanish, this book fills a need not met by other Spanish conversation textbooks. It facilitates lively and meaningful conversations via a variety of texts, including newspaper and journal articles, short stories, and passages from novels, as well as visual material and detailed guides for three films and novels. The texts have universal resonance and are designed to complement and enrich each other. A wide assortment of creative activities enhances comprehension, analysis, spontaneous discussion, and role-playing. The book includes online resources for each chapter. An online Instructor's Manual is also available.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introducción. El arte de la conversación

Capítulo 1. Nuevas y viejas familias

Capítulo 2. El amor y la amistad

Capítulo 3. Moral, ética y legalidad

Capítulo 4. Crimen y castigo

Capítulo 5. Problemas ecológicos: Responsabilidades y soluciones

Capítulo 6. El poder del miedo

Capítulo 7. El poder del dinero

Capítulo 8. El individuo y la política: Poder y represión en América Latina

Capítulo 9. La hora de los indígenas

Capítulo 10. Debate sobre inmigración

Capítulo 11. Películas

Capítulo 12. Novelas

Credits

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21627-0

OCLC:

1058456389