New to the 2nd Edition

• Lengua: A new video, Flash cultura expands on the Exploración section, providing on-location scenes of real-world events and real Spanish speakers
• Lengua: Revised and streamlined grammar in Estructura presents key concepts earlier in a reduced and balanced scope and sequence
• Lengua: A new Manual de gramática, included at the end of the text, provides additional concepts and practice
• Lengua: Contextos presents high-frequency and theme-related vocabulary along with dynamic photos and illustrations
• Lecturas: Cinemateca now features authentic short films from a variety of Spanish-speaking countries in each lesson
• Lecturas: Cultura and Literatura readings have been revised and refreshed to offer new authors, genres, topics, and perspectives on the lesson themes
• Lecturas: A new essay-writing section, Taller de escritura provides writing strategies and practice in each lesson
• Ventanas, 2nd Edition, Supersite, provides students and instructors with a wealth of material that correlates directly to and goes beyond each volume.

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Ventanas Lecturas

Lección 1: Las relaciones personales
Lección 2: Las diversiones
Lección 3: La via diaria
Lección 4: La salud y el bienestar
Lección 5: Los viajes
Lección 6: La naturaleza
Lección 7: La tecnología y la ciencia
Lección 8: La economía y el trabajo
Lección 9: La cultura popular y los medios de comunicación
Lección 10: La literatura y el arte
Lección 11: La política y la religión
Lección 12: La historia y la civilización

Ventanas Lengua

Lección 1: Las relaciones personales
Lección 2: Las diversiones
Lección 3: La via diaria
Lección 4: La salud y el bienestar
Lección 5: Los viajes
Lección 6: La naturaleza
Lección 7: La tecnología y la ciencia
Lección 8: La economía y el trabajo
Lección 9: La cultura popular y los medios de comunicación
Lección 10: La literatura y el arte
Lección 11: La política y la religión
Lección 12: La historia y la civilización

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For Students

Student Edition with Supersite AccessLengua   ISBN: 978-1-60007-601-5  Paperback
Lecturas ISBN: 978-1-60007-602-2  Paperback

The 2-Volume Student Edition features a fresh, magazine-like design that engages students while integrating thematic, cultural, and grammatical concepts within every section of both texts.  The student Supersite provides a wide range of online resources that support and enhance the Ventanas program:

• All video programs in streaming video—Fotonovela, Flash cultura and the Ventanas Film Collection
• Auto-graded practice activities with real-time feedback
• Open-ended Internet search activities
  
• Textbook and Lab audio MP3s
• Dramatic recordings of literary and cultural readings
• Writing activities
• Auto-graded practice quizzes and tests
• Animated grammar tutorials
• Vocabulary flashcards
• VHL online dictionary, online verb wheel,
  and grammar reference

Student Activities Manual  Workbook, Video Manual, and Lab ManualISBN: 978-1-60007-603-9  Paperback

Workbook activities provide additional practice of the vocabulary and grammar in each textbook lesson; Lab Manual activities focus on building listening and speaking skills; Video Manual activities provide pre-, while- and post-viewing activities for the Fotonovela video.

Web-SAM Online Student Activities Manual  powered by MAESTRO® ISBN: 978-1-60007-640-4  Passcode

The Ventanas Web-SAM delivers the Student Activities Manual online with automatic scoring. Instructors have access to powerful classroom management and gradebook tools that allow in-depth tracking of students' scores, customization of activities, and exporting of grades. The complete audio program is also included.

Student Activities Manual Answer Key ISBN: 978-1-60007-605-3  Paperback

This component contains answer keys for all activities with discrete answers in the Student Activities Manual. It is available in print and on the Instructor's Resource CD.

Also Available

Student Supersite Lengua   ISBN: 978-1-60007-636-7  Passcode
Lecturas ISBN: 978-1-60007-637-4  Passcode

Included with purchase of the Student Edition, Student Supersite passcodes are also available for separate purchase.

 

Fotonovela DVD  ISBN: 978-1-60007-604-6  1 DVD

Available in streaming video on the Student Supersite, the Fotonovela video program is also available for purchase in DVD format.

For Instructors

Instructor's Annotated Edition Lengua   ISBN: 978-1-60007-607-7  Paperback
Lecturas ISBN: 978-1-60007-606-0  Paperback

The Instructor's Annotated Edition contains a wealth of teaching information designed to support teaching in the classroom and to save instructors time in preparation and class management. Answers to all exercises with discrete answers are overprinted on the student text pages. The marginal annotations include previews, suggestions, expansions, teaching options, National Standards icons, and instructional resource notes that correlate all student and instructor ancillaries available.

Instructor Cinemateca DVD ISBN: 978-1-60007-710-4  1 DVD

Includes the twelve short-films (one per lesson) by Hispanic filmmakers that are the basis for the Cinemateca section of each Lecturas lesson. The award-winning films offer entertaining and thought-provoking opportunities to build listening comprehension skills and cultural knowledge of the Spanish-speaking world.

Instructor's Resource CD and DVD Set with Instructor SupersiteISBN: 978-1-60007-608-4  Supersite passcode, 1 CD and 2 DVDs

All instructor resources combined in one convenient location:

• Instructor's Supersite
  The complete Instructor's Resource Manual
  The complete Testing Program MP3 files of the Textbook Audio , Lab Audio, and Testing Audio Program
  Answer Keys
  Streaming video
  PowerPoint® presentation slides
  Course management and gradebook
  Student Supersite access
  
• Flash cultura DVD


• Fotonovela Sitcom DVD


• Instructor's Resource Manual in PDF format
  Lab Audio Program Tapescript
  Audioscripts of textbook activities
  English translations of the Film Collection, Fotonovela, Flash cultura, and TV clips
  Videoscripts of the Film Collection, Fotonovela, Flash cultura, and TV clips
  Answer Keys
  Teaching suggestions
  


• Contextos vocabulary overhead PDFs


• Grammar Powerpoints®


• Testing Program
  Lesson tests–four versions each
  Semester exams for Lessons 1-6 and Lessons 7-12
  Quarter exams for Lessons 1-3, Lessons 4-6, Lessons 7-9, and Lessons 10-12
  Additional reading tests
  Audioscripts and answer keys
  Testing Program audio MP3 files
  
  All tests are available in PDFs, in editable RTFs, and via the Brownstone Test Generator.
  Tests can be administered via print or online.

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Ventanas is supported by a wide range of ground-breaking, exciting, and authentic media. For a preview please click on the links below.

Here is a preview of some of the media and resources that accompany Lesson 1:

• Fotonovela

  

  Presented in a sitcom format,  this episodic video follows the lives and adventures of the employees of a fictional lifestyle magazine—Revista Facetas. Students hear real-world language that reflects what is being studied.

• Flash cultura

  

  Shot on location in Latin America and Spain, this video in form of a news program expands on the cultural theme of each Ventanas Lengua lesson.

• Animated Tutorials

  
  

  The animated Professor Pedro Gómez Lacerna walks students through each grammar point, reviewing its rules and showing examples in a unique, amusing, and exciting way.

• Film Collection

  Award-winning films offer entertaining and though-provoking opportunities to build students'  language skills and cultural knowledge.

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Visit the Ventanas Supersite Demo to access the resources that accompany this sample lesson.

Due to rights restrictions, a complete preview of the Ventanas Lecturas Film Collection can only be accessed via the Ventanas Supersite. Contact your Modern Language Specialist for access.

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