Raíces

<p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Raíces: Una aproximación comunicativa intercultural a la lengua española Volumen uno</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is a communicative-based learner-centric book designed to give Spanish 101 students opportunities to develop and practice Spanish in everyday situations.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Each chapter of the book features distinct sections-a) ¡A empezar! b) ¡A conversar! c) ¡A escuchar! d) ¡A escribir! and e) ¡A leer!- to help develop the students' five language skills: writing reading speaking listening and cultural awareness. At the end of each lesson is included </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Perspectiva cultural</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> and ¡A pronunciar! or Ortografía. The text offers a variety of interactive and communicative exercises such as tongue-twisters crosswords riddles real world tasks role play reading excerpts short film discussion questions and other listening exercises.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Students learn how to greet people in Spanish tell time use personal pronouns talk about sports and professions use prepositions to describe locations use possessive and descriptive adjectives talk about the weather and seasons and much more.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>With emphases on practical application conversational Spanish and cultural understanding this text is the first volume in a three-book series developed to help foster students' language acquisition and speaking ability.</span></p>