 
Dicho y hecho: Beginning Spanish, 7th Edition
December 2003, ©2004
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With more than 250,000 satisfied users and counting, Dicho y hecho continues to achieve its core objective: to be the easiest to understand, easiest to use, and easiest to adapt beginning Spanish program available! Since 1981, both users and non-users have guided and participated actively in the development of subsequent editions. The result is a straightforward, easy-to-implement, lively, and highly successful program that works.
This text is also available with cassette (ISBN: 0-471-489381).
Para empezar: Nuevos encuentros (Communicative warm-up).
1. La vida universitaria.
2. Asi es mi familia.
3. ¡A la mesa!
4. Recreaciones y pasatiempos.
5. La rutina diaria.
6. Por la ciudad.
7. De compras.
8. La salud.
9. Asi es mi casa.
10. Amigos y algo más.
11. Aventuras al aire libre.
12. De viaje al extranjero.
13. En el extranjero.
14. El mundo en las noticias.
• Dramatic new chapter-opening Asi se dice vocabulary spreads offer great visual appeal and clear, precise presentations.
• The vocabulary presentation is contextual, in paragraph, dialogue, or visual form.
• Two new themes are introduced: Salud (Health) and Aventuras al aire libre (Oudoor Adventures).
• Improved Grammar Presentations now appear in simpler and more precise formats for greater visual impact and clarity. Material is summarized in color boxes for review and ease of identification.
• New, More Varied, And More Communicative Exercises and Activities allow students to practice both vocabulary and structures, with more pair and group activities.
• New personaje del momento Web activity (discovery/exploration Web activity).
• Cultural Readings (Noticias culturales, Panorama cultural, and Encuentro cultural) are now shorter and simpler in the earlier chapters to accurately reflect the degree of student proficiency in the particular chapter where they appear.
• New entries appear in all three of the cultural components.
• Fine-Tuned Scope & Sequence: Responding to feedback from users, the new edition introduces several structures earlier in the text. This redistribution results in fewer tenses presented in the last two chapters, thus affording more opportunity for recycling activities at the end of the book.
• Future moved from Chapter 13 to 12
• Imperfect subjunctive from Chapter 14 to 13
• Present subjunctive from Chapter 11 to 10
• Preterit from Chapter 6 to 5
• Preterit/imperfect contrast from Chapter 9 to 8
• Reflexives from Chapter 10 to 5
• New se impersonal in Chapter 13
• Flexible. Dicho y hecho focuses on the essentials that students need to study while leaving the text flexible and adaptable for any kind of course in the curriculum.
• Easy to Use. Whether you supplement with transparencies or technology, Dicho y hecho's clean, streamlined approach to the basics doesn't get in the way of a clear course solidly grounded in the basics.
• Practical, Contextualized Active Vocabulary. Thematic vocabulary is presented visually and contextually, and then becomes active through multiple and progressive phases of application... Dicho y hecho offers the most thorough and varied practice and application of vocabulary of any text available today.
• Web-Extended Panoramas Culturales. Each country has its own unique home page, with a mix of, maps,graphics, and web-based discussion and research activities, with numerous links that offer virtual experiences in any land and culture.
• Exemplary Step-by-Step Presentation Of Grammar A clear, uncomplicated, classroom-tested presentation of structures allows students to study easily on their own, with Internet support.
• Ample Varied Opportunities For Structured, Guided, and Open-Ended Practice. Dicho y hecho presents a broader variety of time-tested exercises/activities than any text of its kind.
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