Enseñar una lengua extranjera es siempre un desafío. Es mucho más fácil cuando a los estudiantes les encantan los materiales que se utilizan para enseñarles. No muchos libros están escritos por lectores jóvenes de secundaria. Esperamos que a sus estudiantes les guste aprender con estos libros bilingües.
Novela de la inglesa Jane Austen (1775–1817) publicada en 1817 y pionera en su género. En ella se combina con gran maestría la pincelada realista y costumbrista y la sátira poética y sentimental de la Inglaterra de principios del siglo XIX. Esta historia inmortal puso a su autora un lugar destacado en la novelística de todos los tiempos. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.1px Verdana}
The Great Escape, a 1963 film beloved by many, portrays an escape by allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp. The prisoners work on three tunnels simultaneously, calling them Tom, Dick, and Harry. When the Germans discover Tom—the tunnel furthest along that prisoners thought would be their liberation vehicle—they redouble their alternative efforts. Pro-life Americans over the decades have fought abortion in three ways. Tunnel Tom: Elect prolife legislators, pass laws, appoint the right judges. Tunnel Dick: Destroy or blockade abortion centers, expose abortionists, or (at the very rare extreme) shoot them. Tunnel Harry: Help women undergoing crisis pregnancies, show them what the beings in their wombs look like, create “a culture of life.” Abortion at the Crossroads offers a quick tour of all three tunnels. At the end, readers will have a better sense of which tunnels are filled with rubble and which offer the greatest hope of saving the most lives.
A professional hunter returns to Johannesburg from a safari in Tanzania, to find that his wife has started a relationship with another man. She wants a divorce. Still reeling under the impact, he receives a phone call from his brother, a missionary pilot in Colombia, whose daughter was abducted by FARC guerillas. He catches a flight to South America the next morning.The two brothers track the kidnappers down to a remote jungle camp, where a Canadian medical doctor, kidnapped a month earlier, is also held captive. In the events that follow, both pilot and hunter are confronted by life-challenging decisions. Glimpses of life in a Marxist guerilla camp also reveal the harsh consequences of human errors, wrong choices and the lust for power.
Pocket-sized and packed with helpful instruction, this portable book provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to Spanish grammar. Barron’s Spanish Grammar covers parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, pronunciation advice, verb charts, and more. It also features definitions of basic grammatical terms with examples in Spanish and English. The two-color design for headings, key words, and phrases makes this title a quick and easy reference and enhances its visual appeal. Whether you’re at a beginner, intermediate, or advanced, level, this is a must-have, inexpensive grammar resource for Spanish-language students, teachers, or translators looking for a go-to guide or supplement.
After years of traveling the world, searching for all life has to offer, Toni Martí realizes that his youthful curiosity has soured into stagnation, depression, and drug addiction. While stumbling through what remains of his life, he commits a crime and is sentenced to community service at a nursing home. Forced to comply, he forms a grudging relationship with Juan, an octogenarian whose family long ago abandoned him, and whose day-to-day life seems undisturbed by change. He also encounters Lucía, who runs the nursing home, but not her life; too fearful to follow the lure of her dreams or rebel against her parents, she has grown dull and unhappy. “Beyond Intensity” captures the story of three characters trapped in lives that bring them only loneliness and despair. Soon, they will be forced to discover what is beyond the pursuit of momentary pleasure, beyond routine, beyond conformity. Against the backdrop of a dehumanized society, these three characters’ lives give us the opportunity to reflect on the culture of immediacy and the search for instant gratification—to ask ourselves, what lies beyond intensity?
Buero Vallejo is Spain's most important living playwright. His profound, innovative theatre has earned him success and respect since 1949. Each new play has been an exciting experiment with dramatic form as well as a powerful expression of a tragic view of human life and Spanish society. A Dreamer for the People was first performed in 1958. In this history play, the first of a remarkable series, culminating in La detonacion ( The Shot also published by Aris & Phillips), the dreamer of the title is the often maligned Marquis of Esquilache, the reformist minister of Carlos III. Buero sets off Esquilache's relations with the king, the aristocracy, his wife and his maidservant against a lively re-creation of the build-up to the famous 1766 Capes and Hats Revolt in the streets of Madrid. Public history and private tragedy are brought together in a complex structure, bringing into clear focus the clash between forces of change and immobility that lay at the heart of both the 18th century and the Franco period in Spain. In returning his proofs, Buero compliments the author of this first translation into English of his play: 'La version de Mr Thompson es muy cuidada y fiel, asi como...
An expert on early childhood education offers an important resource for Hispanic parents who try to maintain respect for cultural traditions while readying their children for success in the world, discussing history, customs, and responsibilities. Original.
"The first-ever anthology of plays by Chicana playwright Silviana Wood"--Provided by publisher.
As the Mexican golden eagle is raised and prepared by its parents to go out south in search of a magical moment where a new nation would take place, after the accomplishment of this journey, some nasty snakes kill his parents in an effort to kill him to prevent this magical moment from happening. Having experienced this nasty event, the eagle swears revenge and takes a flight to the south. The snakes realize that this eagle is still alive and team up with a big flock of bloodthirsty scavengers and, flying on top of them, head south to stop this eagle. Parallel to this eagle’s journey, the Aztecs too have to head over to the south in pursuit of this magical moment where an eagle has to be on top of a nopal devouring a serpent. There is where their empire and Tenochtitlan would be built. Both know that this is a god’s mandate and they have to do it even at the risk of their lives, for if they fail, a spell could fall on them forever.
Emma and James Robberts are two brothers who live in the misery of a war. When their father leaves to fight for the least patriotism he has left their whole life changes more. Ten years after that James follows his father steps and leaves to war. Emma is left alone with her abusive mother . While she tries to not lose hope, James learns everything he knew was a lie and the only thing that keeps him going is that one day he will see his sister again. A criticism of the real world and the sweet story of two brothers who will travel the world to unite.
Contains more than 770 basic Spanish words, phrases, and sentences for travelers, grouped by category, and covering greetings, customs, tickets, transportation, dining, shopping money, and many other topics.