Rent 9780618505746 | Basic Spanish for Business and Finance

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This worktext offers diversified business topics and vocabulary, technology-related vocabulary, cultural notes, and activities on business culture and practices--correlated to the cultural notes--to check and reinforce students' business cross-cultural competency. Applied presentation features realistic dialogues, personalized questions, situational role-plays, and realia-based activities that correspond grammatically with those in Basic Spanish. Practical, specialized vocabulary includes terms essential for communicating in business and financial settings, an in-text audio CD for the worktext, and Un paso maacute;s sections that offer additional vocabulary practice and realia-based activities. Cultural focus highlights Hispanic customs and traditions relevant to the subject matter of the lesson, in Notas culturales sections. Comprehension checks begin with comprehension questions on the dialogues in the Diacute;game section that follows the vocabulary lists in the worktext, and end with pair activities in the Hablemos section for immediate reinforcement. Convenient Phrasebook provides vocabulary words and phrases found in the worktext for quick, on-the-job reference.

Leccioacute;n preliminar. Conversaciones breves (Brief conversations) Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
Gender and number
The definite and indefinite articles
Subject pronouns
The present indicative of ser
Cardinal numbers 0�39 Business Communication: Greetings, farewells, and introductions in personal and telephone interaction with other people Leccioacute;n
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The present indicative of regular -ar verbs
Interrogative and negative sentences
Forms and position of adjectives
Telling time
Cardinal numbers 300�1,000
Uses of hay Business Communication: Travelling by plane, making plane reservations, arriving in a foreign country Leccioacute;n
En dos aeropuertos mexicanos Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
Agreement of adjectives, nouns, and adjectives
The present indicative of regular -er and -ir verbs
Possession with de
Possessive adjectives
The personal a Business Communication: Dealing with immigration officers and custom inspectors, exchanging dollars for foreign currencies Leccioacute;n
En el hotel Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
The irregular verbs ir, dar, and estar
Ir a + infinitive
Uses of the verbs ser and estar
Contractions Business Communication: Making hotel reservations, giving personal and credit card information, complaining about hotel accommodations Leccioacute;n
Las comidas Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
The irregular verbs tener and venir
Expressions with tener
Comparative forms
Irregular comparative forms Business Communication: Dining at a restaurant, finding information about typical local food, asking what some dishes consist of, finding out how dishes are served Leccioacute;n
Comprando para importar Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
Stem-changing verbs (e:ie)
Some uses of the definite article
The present progressive Business Communication: Make an appointment to buy goods abroad to be imported to the US, conducting a subsequent interview, finding out about quality and other features of the goods, finding out about prices and paying terms and conditions Repaso (Lecciones 1�5) Leccioacute;n
Vendiendo para exportar Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
Stem-changing verbs (o:ue)
Affirmative and negative expressions
Pronouns as object of a preposition
Direct object pronouns Business Communication: Visiting with a prospective client in a Latin American country, negotiating to sell merchandise to be exported from the US Leccioacute;n
Medios de comunicacioacute;n Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
Stem-changing verbs (e:i)
Irregular first-person forms 3. Saber contrasted with conocer
Indirect object pronouns Business Communication: Inquiring about the availability of communication facilities in a foreign country, how to procure and use communication facilities Leccioacute;n
El transporte de pasajeros Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
Pedir contrasted with preguntar
Special construction with gustar, doler, and hacer falta
Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
Direct and indirect object pronouns used together Business Communication: Dealing with the use of different means of passenger transportation, taking a bus or a taxi, renting a car, requirements for renting and driving a car in a foreign country Leccioacute;n
El transporte de mercanciacute;as Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
Possessive pronouns
Reflexive constructions
Command forms: Ud. and Uds
Uses of object pronouns with command forms Business Communication: Dealing with the transportation of merchandise by air, train, or truck; old problems and new solutions regarding the transportation of merchandise between two countries Leccioacute;n
Contratando personal Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
The preterit of regular verbs
The preterit of ser, ir, and dar
Uses of por and para Business Communication: Conducting an interview when hiring personnel Repaso (Lecciones 6�10) Leccioacute;n
La contabilidad de la empresa (I) Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
Time expressions with hacer
Irregular preterits
The preterit of stem-changing verbs (e:i and o:u)
Command forms: tuacute; Business Communication: Dealing with accounting and accountants Leccioacute;n
La contabilidad de la empresa (II) Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
En and a as equivalents of at
The imperfect tense
The past progressive
The preterit contrasted with the imperfect Business Communication: Dealing with accounting and accountants Leccioacute;n
El impuesto sobre la renta Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
Changes in meaning with the imperfect and preterit of conocer, saber, and querer
Hace meaning ago
Uses of se
�Queacute;? and �Cuaacute;l? used with ser Business Communication: Preparing the income tax declaration for Spanish-speaker with no or limited knowledge of English Leccioacute;n
En la agencia de publicidad Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
The past participle
The present perfect tense
The past perfect (pluperfect) tense Business Communication: Dealing with clients in an advertising agency, working in sales at a department store Leccioacute;n
Abriendo cuentas Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
The future tense
The conditional tense
Some uses of the prepositions a, de, and en Business Communication: Dealing with customers at the bank Repaso (Lecciones 11�15) Leccioacute;n
Solicitando preacute;stamos Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
The present subjunctive
The subjunctive with verbs of volition
The absolute superlative Business Communication: Dealing with bank customers asking for different types of loans Leccioacute;n
Comprando una casa Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
The subjunctive to express emotion
The subjunctive with some impersonal expressions
Formation of adverbs Business Communication: Dealing with clients who want to buy or sell real estate, refinancing properties Leccioacute;n
Alquilando un local comercial Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
The subjunctive to express doubt, disbelief, and denial
The subjunctive to express indefiniteness and nonexistence
Diminutive suffixes Business Communication: Renting commercial space Leccioacute;n
Vendiendo y comprando seguros Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
The subjunctive after certain conjunctions
The present perfect subjunctive
Uses of the present perfect subjunctive Business Communication: Selling insurance to a Spanish-speaking prospective client Leccioacute;n
En el bufete de una abogada Structures from Basic Spanish Grammar
The imperfect subjunctive
Uses of the imperfect subjunctive
If clauses Business Communication: Talking to a client with reference to a civil case Repaso (Leccione
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