Mundo 21offers a content-based approach to the intermediate-level course, broadening students' understanding of the Spanish-speaking world by covering its diverse culture, history, and authentic literature. This text is designed to encourage communication, learning in context, process writing, literary analysis, critical thinking, as well as pair and group work.Mundo 21may also be used as the primary text in a third-year culture and civilization course.Mundo 21features activities that motivate students to develop greater cultural competency and proficiency in all four language skills. The Third Edition features comprehensive teaching support, including a testing program, the HM ClassPrep CD-ROM, and an Instructor's Annotated Edition with teaching suggestions for each section of the lesson. To aid acquisition, new and recycled grammar points have been carefully woven into each lesson's content and writing activities. In addition, individual sections of the grammar manual now appear at the end of each corresponding geographical unit, facilitating the correlation between grammar and writing.