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Breves cuentos hispanos, 3/E
Thomas E. Kooreman, Butler University
Olga M. Kooreman, Indianapolis Public Schools

ISBN-10: 0135770815
ISBN-13:  9780135770818

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2000
Format:  Paper; 150 pp
Published:  06/22/1999


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For third, fourth, or fifth semester Intermediate Spanish courses.

Breves cuentos hispanos offers elementary/intermediate Spanish students enjoyable, short, challenging stories. Each story includes a series of varied activities including grammar review, vocabulary development, comprehension, discussion, and opinion questions. The third edition of this successful reader contains five new stories, and twelve in all.


Features

  • NEW - Pre-and post-reading activities.

    • Helps students improve their reading skills.

  • NEW - Five new stories.

    • Provides stories which interest students and are at the appropriate reading level.

  • An introduction entitled “How to Read a Foreign Language”.

    • Gives students strategies and hints for a successful foreign language reading experience.

  • Stories are brief, entertaining, and lively.

    • Includes stories at the reading level of intermediate students.

  • Brief author biographies.

    • Provides students with context for each story, and offers readers the opportunity to learn about key Hispanic writers.

  • Discusiones y opiniones sections.

    • Encourage students to share their experiences and opinions regarding each story and its cultural contents.


New To This Edition

  • Pre-and post-reading activities.

    • Helps students improve their reading skills.

  • Five new stories.

    • Provides stories which interest students and are at the appropriate reading level.


Table of Contents



 1. Una limosna, José Rubén Romero (Mexico).


 2. Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos, Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina).


 3. Las lavanderas, Elena Poniatowska (Mexico).


 4. La rosa, Enrique Anderson Imbert (Argentina).


 5. Don Elías Neftalí Sánchez, mecanógrafo, Camilo José Cela (Spain).


 6. Venganza campesina, Manuel Zapata Olivella (Colombia).


 7. El huésped, Amparo Dávila (Mexico).


 8. Continuidad de los parques, Julio Cortázar (Argentina).


 9. Un día de éstos, Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia).


10. El hombre, José Sánchez-Boudy (Cuba).


11. El ramo azul, Octavio Paz (Mexico).


12. Walimai, Isabel Allende (Chile).


Vocabulary.


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    ISBN-10: 0132391643  |  ISBN-13: 9780132391641
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