Workbook/Lab Manual for Intercambios: Spanish for Global Communication, 4th

by Guiomar Borras A and Guiomar Borrás A.

The Workbook/Laboratory Manual includes many new exercises and activities to develop students' proficiency in written and spoken Spanish. New organization places "workbook" activities for each chapter before "lab" exercises.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838425097
• ISBN13: 9780838425091
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 208 Pages

Customer Reviews

An efficient textbook which offers a remarkable CD Rom

I am a College Spanish instructor and I use Intercambios in class. It does what it says. It does not overwhelm the reader with an excessive amount of vocabulary or with activities that in some textbooks are not always easily understandable or identifiable by many learners. For this reason this textbook may not at first glance appear very ambitious in terms of scope and content, especially the vocabulary and exercises in the very first lessons, but it provides the essentials in a practical manner which invites communication as it clearly lays the grammatical foundation. The presentation is visually clear, attractive, concise and simple. The way the material is presented is very practical for students who want to get to the core material, for instance before tests. I also found very convincing the way that the "pretérito" is introduced, gradually and early enough to respond to students' needs. Last but certainly not least, Intercambios takes all its meaning with its truly remarkable CD Rom, which is very attractively designed and user-friendly, whether it is used in the classroom or individually. This tool offers a large amount of activities well organized and very useful (video segments, exercises, etc.) For example, speech segments can immediately be translated with a mouse click, and it is very easy to retrace one's steps. This CD Rom has won me over, I hope that it will find a large audience.