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Title: ¿Sabias que. . . ?, Beginning Spanish (Student Edition + Listening Comprehension Audio CD) by Bill Vanpatten, James F. Lee, Terry L. Ballman ISBN: 0-07-234214-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 02 August, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $101.55 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Two Words
Comment: BO-RINGGGGGGGGG...when is someone going to write a good foreign language text book that gives the students interesting stories in addition to verbs and grammar. How about a story about Mariachi bank robbers who hold a small Mexican town captive while their leader (we can call him El Loco Uno) holds the mayor's daughter captive. After a band of rebels (these are good rebels not bad ones) catch word, they quickly dispurse to the village, where they find El Loco Uno holding Marietta (the mayor's daughter) at knifepoint. The leader of the band of rebels, Rico, throws his lassoo out but misses, and instead catches Mariettas poodle, who is barking nearby. This is key later in the story. So now El Loco Uno is angry, and he sends his men after the rebels. They engage in bloody war for a long time. Finally, after many men have died, Rico sees El Loco Uno eating a sandwich. Rico sneaks up behind him and tries to strangle him, but El Loco Uno picks up his fork and stabs Rico in the neck. Rico stumbles backward, struck with pain, and El Loco Uno kicks him in the groin. Rico falls down, and El Loco Uno pulls out his knife, ready to finish Rico. Desperate, Rico searches for a weapon, but instead finds a small ball of fur. In a last ditch attempt to save himself, he picks up this ball of fur, which happens to be muffin, Marietta's dog, and hurles it at El Loco Uno. Now ordinarily muffin would be frightened, but what El Loco Uno doesnt know is that a piece of turkey is stuck to his lower lip, and muffin is very hungry. Anyway, the story ends with Marietta falling madly in love with Rico. Now that would be an interesting book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Groundbreaking text in communicative Spanish teaching
Comment: The first edition of SQ blasted onto the market nearly 10 years ago and broke ALL the rules. It's a gutsy, interesting book that does what most other first year Spanish textbooks fail to do - gets you students using and understanding Spanish from the beginning of the school year! It is not easy to teach from Sabias que - you're going to have to work as hard as your students are, but the rewards will be amazing! This is not a teach-yourself Spanish text. It is meant for classroom use.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sabias Que: Beginning Spanish Third Edition
Comment: This text is very informative. There are some pieces of cultural information about the Spanish-speaking world that give good insight into that culture. The one aspect of the book that I thought was not very useful, was the numerous group or team activities, because there are more activities than can be accomplished. (If the class time consists of three 50-minute sessions per week, and there are roughly 15 weeks per semester, the student doesn't benefit from these since most cannot be accomplished effectively due to time constraints.) If a few, rather than many, had been selected for the text, then not only could these be completed during class, but there would be more room in the text for other cultural passages.
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Title: Workbook/Lab Manual (Vol. 1) to accompany ¿Sabias que¿? by Bill Vanpatten, James F. Lee, Terry L. Ballman ISBN: 007231091X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 02 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $42.25 |
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Title: Manual Que Acompana Sabias Que?: Beginning Spanish: Primera Parte by Bill Vanpatten ISBN: 0070672342 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $42.25 |
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Title: Student Viewer's Handbook to Accompany Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish by Bill Vanpatten, Martha Alford Marks, Richard V. Teschner ISBN: 0070672091 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $42.25 |
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Title: Student Viewers Handbook 1 fuw Destinos by Bill Van Patten, Martha Alford Marks, Richard V. Teschner, Bill VanPatten ISBN: 0072497092 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 03 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.50 |
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Title: Perspectivas Text/Audio CD Package by Mary Ellen Kiddle, Brenda Wegmann, Sandra Schreffler, Sandra Schre ISBN: 0030339588 Publisher: Heinle Pub. Date: 21 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $58.95 |
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