Bill VanPatten,
Texas Tech University Michael J. Leeser,
Florida State University Gregory D. Keating,
San Diego State University
ISBN: 0073385298 Copyright year: 2012
Feature Summary
The feature-length movie Sol y viento is fully integrated within the Sol y viento textbook, providing unparalleled, motivating input that is highly accessible to students. It is divided into ten episodes: a prologue, which corresponds to the Lección preliminar, and nine episodes, which correspond to the eight units and the Lección final.
Vocabulary and grammar are presented and practiced within a clear and consistent three-part lesson structure. Vocabulary is presented visually through engaging, contemporary art, and communicative activities promote the acquisition of new terms. Grammar is presented within the context of the movie and is followed by meaningful activities that develop proficiency through relevant, real-world situations.
¡Exprésate! boxes introduce useful structures and functional terms at the point at which they are needed for effective communication and student-to-student interaction.
Comunicación útil features encourage individual expression through additional vocabulary, structures, and phrases that allow students to further personalize activities.
The Resumen de gramática section brings together film clips that highlight grammar points in a given lesson and provides grammar practice.
Vistazo cultural features (usually three per lesson) explore many different aspects of Hispanic cultures related to the current lesson’s theme.
The Sol y viento: Enfoque cultural features focus on a cultural point or topic related directly to the corresponding movie episode, encouraging students to explore the background culture inherent in the developing story, characters, and locations of the movie itself.
Meaningful activities promote useful and relevant communication and develop linguistic skills in real contexts and through engaging situations and tasks.
Students work with each episode multiple times through various activities and sections in the text. Examples of this are found in the episode openers, which introduce the film episodes through photos and brief questions that serve as a pre-viewing activity for students; the Sol y viento: Enfoque cultural sections, which explore a cultural element presented in the film; the Resumen de gramática sections, which contain segments from the film and show grammar in a natural context; the Sol y viento film sections themselves that are designed for viewing and working with the film episodes in class; and other activities throughout the text that are presented within the context of the film.
The Instructional Version of the Sol y viento movie, available on a set of 6 DVDs, contains on-screen previewing activities that encourage students to watch for important plot developments and character interaction, facilitating comprehension of the upcoming episode. On-screen postviewing activities reinforce both comprehension of specific elements of the movie as well as recognition and understanding of the lesson’s grammar points. The Instructional Version also contains film clips from the Resumen de gramática sections in the text, as well as additional features such as interviews with the cast and crew, a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Sol y viento, and much more.
The Manual de actividades, Volumes 1 and 2, available both in the classic print and the interactive online versions delivered through CENTRO (powered by Quia™), offer additional written and aural practice and skill development. The online versions offer immediate feedback and scoring, the full built-in audio program, and a powerful classroom management and grading tool for instructors.
A full-color Picture File for instructors offers large color images, taken from the Sol y viento movie, which allows instructors to further integrate the movie, its characters, locations, and plot into the daily classroom experience.
The extensive activities and resources available on this Online Learning Center Website provide students with additional opportunities to practice vocabulary and grammar, as well as quizzes to accompany the Panorama cultural sections. It also contains useful resources such as interactive verb charts, animated grammar tutorials, laboratory audio, and textbook audio. Instructors will find a wide range of resources available to them on the Online Learning Center Website, including digital transparencies and PowerPoint presentations.
2012