Supplements
The supplements listed here may accompany ¿Sabías que... ? Please contact your local McGraw-Hill representative for details concerning policies, prices, and availability, as some restrictions may apply.
- The Manual que acompaña ¿Sabías que... ?, Primera parte, and Segunda parte, offers additional outside practice in vocabulary, grammar, and listening comprehension. Two lesson-ending features of the Manual are a Vistazos section and a Prueba de práctica. The Vistazos section contains realia-based activities without answers that students can do on their own to hand in later. The Prueba de práctica is a practice lesson quiz that students may complete to measure what they have learned and retained from the lesson.
- New to the third edition is an exciting electronic version of the Manual que acompaña ¿Sabías que... ? The electronic version of the workbook/laboratory manual contains the same practice material as in the printed version but in a unique and interactive electronic format. Activities are self-correcting or may be e-mailed directly to the instructor. See your local McGraw-Hill representative for details about this exciting new supplement.
- The Audio Program to accompany the Manual provides further listening comprehension practice outside of the classroom. New to the third edition is a full set of Audio CDs that students may use instead of cassettes, if they prefer.
- The annotated Instructors Edition contains detailed suggestions for carrying out activities in class. It also offers options for expansion and follow-up.
- The combined Instructors Manual and Testing Program expands on the methodology of ¿Sabías que... ? Among other things, it offers suggestions for carrying out the activities in the text and suggests ways to provide students with appropriate feedback on their compositions. The Testing Program includes sample quizzes for each lesson as well as unit tests. The Testing Program is also available in an electronic format so that you can modify the tests to best suit the needs of your students.
- The Audioscript, available to instructors only, contains the material on the audio program that accompanies the Manual. There is no tapescript for the Student Tape or CD; ¿Sabías que... ? boxes and Vistazos readings are printed in the Student Edition, and Los hispanos hablan texts are included in the annotated Instructors Edition.
- The McGraw-Hill Electronic Language Tutor (MHELT 2.0), available in Macintosh and IBM formats, is a text-specific software program that contains single-response exercises from the main text.
- Three cultural and literary readers are available to supplement first- and second-year Spanish instruction. Written in Spanish, these readers offer the chance for students to broaden their knowledge of the richness of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world as well as to increase their developing reading skills.
- El mundo hispano: An Introductory Cultural and Literary Reader
contains cultural information on the six major regions of the Spanish-speaking world, including the United States, as well as Tesoros literarios, excerpts from Spanish-language literary classics with accompanying comprehension questions.
- Mundos de fantasía: Fábulas, cuentos de hadas y leyendas
contains popular Hispanic fables, fairy tales, and legends.
- Cocina y comidas hispanas
highlights favorite recipes from around the Hispanic world.
- Adopters of ¿Sabías que... ? may purchase the Destinos Video Modules, developed by Bill VanPatten. This set of four modules (Vocabulary, Situations, Functional Language, Culture), accompanied by supplementary activities, can be used to increase student proficiency.
- A Training/Orientation Manual by James F. Lee offers practical advice for beginning language instructors and coordinators.
- A Practical Guide to Language Learning: A Fifteen-Week Program of Strategies for Success, by H. Douglas Brown (San Francisco State University), is a brief introduction to the language-learning process for beginning language students. It is available for student purchase.
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