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This advanced Spanish conversation book features a series of essays on a broad range of important, substantive, and interesting contemporary topics, together with vocabulary notes and explanations. A variety of exercises test readers' comprehension of the essays and encourage them to express a statement of personal opinion or interpretation about the issues raised in, or related, to the essay.Topics progress from the most easy subjects to the most abstract, and include: Costumbres alimenticias en el mundo actual. El dinero, la inflacion y el desempleo. El estres y sus consecuencias. El alcohol y las drogas. La desigualdad social entre los sexos. La destruccion del medio ambiente. Diversidad etnica y discriminacion. La presencia hispana en los Estados Unidos. La revolucion tecnologica. La influencia de la television. Consideraciones sobre la amistad. La busqueda de la felicidad.For anyone wanting conversational practice in advanced Spanish.

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Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

xi

Costumbres alimenticias en el mundo actual

1

(17)

El dinero, la inflacion y el desempleo

18

(19)

El estres e sus consecuencias

37

(19)

El alcohol y las drogas

56

(20)

La desigualdad social entre los sexos

76

(20)

La destruccion del medio ambiente

96

(19)

Diversidad etnica y discriminacion

115

(16)

La presencia hispana en Estados Unidos

131

(20)

La revolucion tecnologica

151

(17)

La influencia de la television

168

(19)

Consideraciones sobre la amistad

187

(19)

La busqueda de la felicidad

206

(19)

Indice de palabras comentadas

225

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PrefaceHablando seriamente: Textos y pretextos para conversar y discutiris a textbook intended for use in third- or fourth-year Spanish conversation courses at the college level. With imaginative guidance from the instructor, classes based on this material involve students in a structured, creative effort that leads to a higher level of conversational proficiency.This third edition ofHablando seriamenteincorporates a number of important revisions. Overall, users of this book will now find that these revisions and other changes made in the text provide a more tightly structured set of materials for organizing an intermediate or advanced conversation class. The most important changes derive from the authors' desire to create more group and interactive communicative activities than were included in the first and second editions.The two new chapters, "La presencia hispana en Estados Unidos" and "La revolucion tecnologica," add important topics of current interest, as does the revised chapter, "El estres y sus consecuencias," reintroduced from the first edition at the request of users and outside reviewers. Moreover, the chapter in the second edition called "La riqueza etnica de los Estados Unidos" has been rewritten as "Diversidad etnica y discriminacion." The chapter, "La desigualdad social entre los sexos," has also undergone rewriting and factual updating. In general, all the chapters have been revised, updated and, when necessary, shortened.Each chapter begins now with aPrelectura.It is important that this brainstorming conversational activity be done as group work in the class prior to the one in which the essay and accompanying exercises are assigned as homework. ThePrelecturaexercises are intended to get students talking by introducing them--through a number of simple opinion questions--to the thematic concerns reflected in the essay and to the exercises assigned for the following class. A number ofPalabras utileshave been listed for each Prelectura, but the instructor will surely want to augment it by brainstorming and board work in which the students contribute further vocabulary.To speak fluently about a subject, we need to know something about it. Therefore, the Lectura following thePrelecturain each chapter presents considerable factual information about topics of interest to most students. Following theLecturais anExpansion de vocabulariothat gives extensive explanations of the vocabulary for the Ejercicios which follow. These exercises, some tightly controlled and focused and others open-ended, improve reading comprehension, lexical expansion, vocabulary use, and the ability of students to express and defend their ideas and feelings about the issues discussed in each chapter. Finally, each chapter concludes withTareas complementarias,four topics for discussion that may be assigned as group work for three or more students. TheTareas complementariaspermit student participation that reflects their personal experience or professional goals.Since today's college students study Spanish for many different reasons, the topics in this text cover a broad range of social, political, environmental, health, entertainment and philosophical issues of considerable importance in their lives. TheLecturascomplement each other, but are nevertheless sufficiently independent to be studied as individual units.This text presents more material than some instructors may wish or be able to include in a one-quarter or one-semester class. In such cases, we have found that students appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with the instructor in organizing the class and selecting the chapters to be studied. For example, Chapter 2, "El dinero, la inflacion y el desempleo," could help economics or management majors improve thei

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Hablando seriamente Textos y pretextos para conversar y discutir

Hablando seriamente Textos y pretextos para conversar y discutir

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