Revista, 5th Edition
Conversación sin barreras | José A. Blanco
© 2018 Paperback | Loose-leaf | 8 ½ x 10 ½ inches | online vText available
6 lessons |1 semester |240 pages
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Get your advanced Spanish students talking with our best-selling conversation program. Revista’s relevant and high-interest themes, innovative communications tools, and interactive teaching strategies will enable your students to express themselves naturally and effortlessly in Spanish. Featuring award-winning films, engaging literature, and clever comics, Revista offers advanced Spanish students the authentic content they need to develop their conversation skills. Plus, a powerful, fully-integrated Supersite provides comprehensive activities and resources designed for student success.
- Award-winning and engaging short films by contemporary Hispanic filmmakers—complete with streaming video and optional captioning on the Supersite
- Authentic readings, including essays, articles, fictional stories, opinion pieces, interviews, and poetry selections from around the Spanish-speaking world
- Comic strips that offer clever, thought-provoking insights into the lesson theme
- Pre-viewing and pre-reading support for each film and literary selection—including background information, author bios, key vocabulary, and practice activities
- Virtual and Partner Chats integrated with each lesson’s film, reading, and comic strip for additional oral practice and synchronous communication
- Succinct review of grammar points
- Our innovative Supersite that provides online access to textbook video, audio, interactive activities, practice quizzes, study and reference tools, and effective online assessment and course management
- vText—an interactive, online textbook that links directly with Supersite practice activities, audio, and video
- Instructor material icons indicating the alignment of an activity to ACTFL’s Standards for Foreign Language Learning
What’s new in Revista, 5th Edition?
- 4 new short films
- 5 new literary readings, plus one new comic strip
- Revised vocabulary focused on expanding students’ skills
- Additional online activities for each literary reading
- vText—an interactive, online textbook that links directly with Supersite practice activities, audio, and video
- Updated activities
- Comprehensive Virtual and Partner Chat features totaling 30 new communicative activities
- 5 Virtual and Partner Chats per lesson—one for every short film, reading, and comic strip
- Audio-synch technology for the initial activity for each short film, literary reading, and comic strip
- Multi-format Composición activities
What can you expect in each lesson? Check out all the themes below.
For more details, download a Table of Contents.
Revista, 5th Edition
Lección 1:¿Realidad o fantasía?
Lección 2: Una cuestión de personalidad
Lección 3: La influencia de los medios
Lección 4: Las garras del poder
Lección 5: Misterios del amor
Lección 6: Modos de vivir
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For instructors
- Textbook activities online
- Additional activities for extra practice
- Enhanced feedback to guide students and improve comprehension and grades
- Chat for oral practice and conversation skills:
- Virtual Chat—simulated conversation activities
- Video Partner Chat—recorded student-pair communicative activities
- Audio-synced readings
- All video programs, with instructor-controlled subtitles and translations
- Audio program
- Online dictionary
- Live Chat (video or audio) and instant messaging
- Online assessment
- Interactive, online Student Edition (vText) with links to program activities, audio, and video
- iPad®-friendly*