Motivos de conversación by Nicholas & Dominicis
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The supplements listed here may accompany Motivos de conversación. Please contact your local McGraw-Hill representative for details concerning policies, prices, and availability, as some restrictions may apply.

* The Workbook/Laboratory Manual provides additional form-focused and open-ended opportunities to practice the vocabulary and grammatical structures presented in the text. The workbook section also provides guided writing practice that helps students develop their expository writing skills, activities to accompany the Viaje por el mundo hispánico sections in the text, and a new self-quiz at the end of every Workbook chapter that students can use to evaluate their own progress in the language. The laboratory section offers practice in pronunciation, listening comprehension, and speaking.

* The Audio Program, available on both cassette and CD (for student purchase or free to adopting institutions), corresponds to the Laboratory Manual and contains activities for reviewing vocabulary and grammatical structures, passages for extensive and intensive listening practice, and guided pronunciation practice.

* The Tapescript contains a complete transcript of the Audio Program.

* Packaged with every new student text is a free Listening Comprehension Program, available in audiocassette or audio CD format. It contains the poetry selections and biographical information about the poets from the Viaje por el mundo hispánico sections of the text, enabling students to listen to the selections while following along in their book or at other times to improve their pronunciation and listening comprehension skills.

* The Instructor’s Edition is a replication of the student text that contains extensive notes on vocabulary, grammar, and culture and suggestions for additional exercises and activities, including listening comprehension and oral practice.

* The Instructor’s Manual contains lesson plans, a short sample text for each chapter, supplementary class aids, and methodological suggestions. It includes various approaches to difficult grammar points, more detailed explanations (when appropriate), rationales for the organization of class materials, hints on varying the presentation of the lessons, and aids for presenting students with strategies for avoiding common pitfalls and clarifying areas of confusion. It also contains a complete videoscript and a section on using multimedia (video, CD-ROM, website) in the classroom.

* The new integrated thematic Video, introduced in the chapter opener of the text with a series of discussion-provoking questions and later integrated into the Videotemas section, consists of sixteen episodes correlated to the Lección Preliminar and the fifteen regular chapters in the textbook.

* The text-specific CD-ROM developed especially for Motivos de conversación offers additional vocabulary and grammar exercises, as well as opportunities to practice speaking and listening.

* Available in both IBM and Macintosh formats, the McGraw-Hill Electronic Language Tutor (MHELT) includes most of the form-focused vocabulary and grammar activities from the main text. It is also included on the CD-ROM that accompanies Motivos de conversación.

* The Rand-McNally New Millennium World Atlas. This robust CD-ROM, available for student purchase, contains numerous detailed maps along with visuals and textual information (in English) about key events in history, famous figures, important cities, and so on. The detail and information provided significantly enhance the foreign language experience from a cultural, historical, and geographical perspective.

* A Practical Guide to Language Learning: A Fifteen-Week Program of Strategies for Success, by H. Douglas Brown (San Francisco State University), offers a brief introduction to language learning written for beginning students.

* Training/Orientation Manual, by James F. Lee (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), offers practical advice for beginning language instructors and coordinators.

* The Storyteller’s Series offers high-interest fiction (novellas and short stories) designed for advanced-beginning or intermediate students.

* The ¡A leer! Easy Reader Series features two short readers: Cocina y comidas hispanas, on regional Hispanic cuisines; and Mundos de fantasía: Fábulas, cuentos de hadas y leyendas. These readers, developed to reinforce vocabulary acquisition, can be used as early as the second semester and are intended for use outside the classroom.

* The El mundo hispano reader features five major regions of the Hispanic world, as well as a section on Hispanics living in the United States.

* The software program Spanish Tutor, developed by Monica Morley and Karl Fisher (Vanderbilt University), is available for purchase by students. It helps students master first-year vocabulary and grammar topics.

* A selection of top-quality Spanish-language videos, including the Destinos Video Modules, can be used with Motivos de conversación.