James F. Lee,
Indiana University Dolly Jesusita Young,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville Rodney Bransdorfer,
Central Washington University Darlene F. Wolf,
Late, University of Alabama
ISBN: 0072818328 Copyright year: 2005
Proven Features
¿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 of two lessons each: Communication and culture; religion and popular beliefs; the environment; the media and globalization; 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 Galería de arte section opens every unit to promote discussion and artistic appreciation of fine art.
Each Ideas para explorar section opens with a set of questions relevant to the themes of the activities in the section.
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