Dos mundos

Dos mundos, a best-selling program for Introductory Spanish known for its exceptional progressive activities, made its name as an innovative pioneer in Beginning Spanish. Today, it has maintained the spirit of innovation through many successful editions and continues to be implemented in numerous beginning Spanish language classes across the nation with outstanding results.
Based on the communicative approach, Dos mundos stresses the use of engaging activities in a natural and spontaneous classroom atmosphere. The Actividades de comunicacion play a primary role in Dos mundos, since the core of the program is communication. These activities include fresh, practical ideas from the field of second-language teaching. In this research-based approach to learning language, the development of communicative language skills is the central goal, with formal grammar presentation and practice at the service of communication. To this end, the grammar explanations and exercises on the blue pages at the end of each chapter are designed for quick reference and ease of study.
Additionally, cultural content is integrated throughout each chapter. The new Conozca section on each chapter opener gives an introduction of the country or region of focus, including information about holidays, foods, famous people, and important cities. Ventanas culturales readings focus on community, customs, and daily life while Ventanas al pasado readings focus on aspects of the social, cultural, or political history of the Spanish-speaking world The Enlace readings explore literature, music, and cinema, and the Lecturas present topics such as sports and leisure activities.

List of contents

(Note: The preliminary chapters (Paso A-C) and Capitulo 1 of this Table of Contents provide a comprehensive listing of contents for those chapters, as representative of the other chapters. Capitulo 2-15 provides only the vocabulary topics and grammatical structures.)

The following lists the Enlace readings found in each chapter: Capitulo 1 Enlace a la musica

Cuba Capitulo 2 Enlace a la musica

La musica andina Capitulo 3 Enlace al cine

Mexico y Espana Capitulo 4 Enlace a la literatura

"Versos sencillos" Jose Marti Capitulo 5 Enlace a la musica

El rock en espanol Capitulo 6 Enlace a la literatura

"Cuadrados y angulos" Alfonsina Storni Capitulo 7 Enlace a la literatura

"Cuando salimos de El Salvador" Jorge Argueta Capitulo 8 Enlace a la literatura

"Jitomates risuenos" Francisco X. Alarcon Capitulo 9 Enlace a la musica

La musica infantil Capitulo 10 Enlace a la literatura

"Dos cuerpos" Octavio Paz Capitulo 11 Enlace a la musica

La danza negra en Peru Capitulo 12 Enlace al cine

Argentina y Chile Capitulo 13 Enlace a la literatura

"Nada mas" Maria Elena Walsh Capitulo 14 Enlace a la literatura

"Kinsey Report No.6" Rosario Castellanos Capitulo 15 Enlace a la literatura

"La noche buena" Tomas RiveraPaso A La clase y los estudiantes Actividades de comunicacion

Los nombres de los companeros de clase

¿Quien es?

Los colores y la ropa

Los numeros (0-39)

Los saludos

Gramatica

A.1 Naming and Describing: The Verbs llamar and llevar

A.2 Spelling: The Spanish Alphabet

A.3 Identifying People and Things: Subject Pronouns and the Verb ser

A.4 Identifying People and Things: Gender

A.5 Responding to Instructions:Commands Paso B Las descripciones Actividades de comunicacion

Hablando con otros

Las cosas en el salon de clase

Los numeros (40-69)

El cuerpo humano

La descripcion de las personas

Gramatica

B.1 Addressing Others: Informal and Polite you (tu/usted)

B.2 Expressing Existence: hay

B.3 Describing People and Things:Negation

B.4 Describing People and Things: Plural Forms

B.5 Describing People and Things: Adjective-Noun Agreementand PlacementPaso C Mi familia y mis amigos Actividades de comunicacion

La familia

¿Que tenemos?

Los numeros (10-100) y la edad

Los idiomas y las nacionalidades

Gramatica

C.1 Expressing Possession: The Verbs tener and ser de (l)

C.2 Expressing Possession: Possessive Adjectives

C.3 Expressing Age: The Verb tener

C.4 Describing People: Adjectives of Nationality

C.5 Talking about Habitual Actions: Present Tense of Regular -ar VerbsCapitulo 1 Los datos personales y las actividadesActividades de comunicacion y lecturas

Las fechas y los cumpleanos

Datos personales: El telefono y la direccion

Ventanas culturales

Nuestra comunidad: Rigoberta Menchu

Enlace a la musica

Cuba

La hora

Las actividades favoritas y los deportes

Ventanas al pasado

Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo

En resumen

Lectura: La pasion por los deportes

Gramatica

1.1 Counting: Numbers 100-1000 and Dates

1.2 Talking about Habitual Actions: Present Tense of -er and -ir Verbs

1.3 Asking Questions: Question Formation

1.4 Telling Time: Hours and Minutes

1.5 Expressing Likes and Dislikes: gustar + Infinitive

Capitulo 2 Mis planes y preferencias Actividades de comunicacion

Los planes

Las clases

Las preferencias y los deseos

El tiempo

Gramatica

2.1 Expressing Future Plans: ir + a + Infinitive

2.2 Sequencing: Ordinal Adjectives

2.3 Stating Preferences and Desires: preferir and querer + Infinitive

2.4 Describing the Weather: Common Expressions

2.5 Pointing Out People and Objects: Demonstrative Adjectives

Capitulo 3 Los lugares y las actividades Actividades de comunicacion

Las actividades diarias

Las tres comidas

Los lugares

¿De donde es usted?

Gramatica

3.1 Talking about Habitual Actions: Present Tense of Regular Verbs

3.2 Using Irregular Verbs: haver, salir, jugar

3.3 Referring to Objects Already Mentioned: Direct Object Pronouns lo, la, los, and las

3.4 Asking and Answering Questions

3.5 Talking About Location and Origin: estar + en, ir + al / a la and ser de

Capitulo 4 La vida diaria y los dias feriadosActividades de comunicacion

Los dias feriados y las celebraciones

La rutina diaria

Los estados fisicos y animicos

Gramatica

4.1 Discussing Habitual Actions: Verbs with Stem-Vowel Changes (ie, ue) in the Present Tense

4.2 Discussing Habitual Actions: Irregular Verbs

4.3 Describing Daily Routine: Reflexives

4.4 Ordering Events: Infinitives after Prepositions

4.5 Describing States: estar + Adjective and tener + Noun

Capitulo 5 Las clases y el trabajo Actividades de comunicacion

Las actividades de la clase de espanol

Las habilidades

Las carreras y las actividades del trabajo

Las actividades futuras

Gramatica

5.1 Indicating to Whom Something is Said: Indirect Object Pronouns with Verbs of Informing

5.2 Expressing Abilities: saber and poder + Infinitive

5.3 Referring to Actions in Progress: Present Progressive

5.4 Expressing Obligation and Duty: tener que, deber, necesitar, hay que, es necesario

5.5 Expressing Plans and Desires: pensar, quisiera, me gustaría, tener ganas de

Capitulo 6 La residencia Actividades de comunicacion

El vecindario y la casa

Las actividades en casa

Las actividades con los amigos

Las presentaciones

Gramatica

6.1 Making Comparisons of Inequality: mas/menos

6.2 Making Comparisons of Equality: tan/tanto

6.3 Talking about Past Actions: Preterite Tense of Regular Verbs (Part 1)

6.4 Knowing People, Places, and Facts: conocer and saber

6.5 Referring to People Already Mentioned: Personal Direct Object Pronouns

Capitulo 7 Hablando del pasado Actividades de comunicacion

Mis experiencias

Las experiencias con los demas

Hablando del pasado

Gramatica

7.1 Talking About Past Actions:Preterite Tense of RegularVerbs (Part 2)

7.2 Relating Past Events (Part 1): Verbs with Irregular Preterite Forms

7.3 More About Relating Past Events (Part 2): Stem-Changing Verbs in the Preterite

7.4 Reporting the Past: Indirect Object Pronouns with decir

7.5 Expressing ago: hacer + Time

Capitulo 8 La comida Actividades de comunicacion

Las comidas, las bebidas y la nutricion

La compra y la preparacion¿de la comida

Los restaurantes

Gramatica

8.1 Referring to Objects Already Mentioned: Impersonal Direct Object Pronouns lo, la, los, and las

8.2 More about Expressing Likes: The Verbs gustar and encantar

8.3 Making Negative Statements and Questions: No, never

8.4 Expressing one or you: The Impersonal se

8.5 Using Stem-Changing Verbs like pedir and servir: Present Tense and Preterite Forms

Capitulo 9 La ninez y la juventud Actividades de comunicacion

La familia y los parientes

La ninez

La juventud

Gramatica

9.1 Describing Family Relationships: The Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs parecerse and llevarse bien

9.2 Expressing for, from, to whom: Prepositions + Pronouns

9.3 Saying What You Used to Do: The Imperfect Tense

9.4 Describing the Past: The Imperfect and Preterite of "State" Verbs

9.5 Saying What You Were Going to Do: The Imperfect Tense of ir + a + Infinitive

Capitulo 10 Nuestro planeta Actividades de comunicacion

La geografia y el clima

Los medios de transporte

La ecologia y el medio ambiente

Gramatica

10.1 Saying What You Have Done: The Present Perfect

10.2 Exclamations with ¡Que... !, ¡Cuanto/a/os/as... !

10.3 Expressing by, through, Destination and Time (Part 1): por and para

10.4 Describing Actions: Adverbs

10.5 Expressing Reactions: More Verbs like gustar

Capitulo 11 De viaje Actividades de comunicacion

Los viajes en automovil

En busca de sitios

Los planes de viaje

Los sitios turisticos

Gramatica

11.1 Giving Instructions: Polite Commands

11.2 Softening Commands (Part 1): The Present Subjunctive following querer

11.3 Expressing Indefinite Future and Present Subjunctive of Irregular Verbs

11.4 Talking About Past Actions in Progress: Imperfect Progressive

11.5 Saying What Was Happening: The Imperfect in Contrast to the Pre
terite

Capitulo 12 La salud y las emergencias Actividades de comunicacion

El cuerpo humano y la salud

Las enfermedades y su tratamiento

Las visitas al medico, a la farmacia y al hospital

Los accidentes y las emergencias

Gramatica

12.1 Expressing Existence: haber

12.2 Expressing Changes in States: Become, get

12.3 Making Requests: Indirect Object Pronouns with Commands and the Present Subjunctive

12.4 Adverbs Relating Unplanned Occurrences: se

12.5 Narrating Past Experiences: Present Perfect, Imperfect, and Preterite

Capitulo 13 De compras Actividades de comunicacion

Los productos y los materiales

Los precios

Comprando ropa

Las compras y el regateo

Gramatica

13.1 Describing People and Things: Adjectives Used as Nouns

13.2 Indicating Which Ones(s): Demonstrative Pronouns

13.3 Talking about Price, Beneficiary, and Purpose: por and para (Part 2)

13.4 Exchanging Items: Indirect Object Pronouns

13.5 Referring to People and Things Already Mentioned: Using Indirect and Direct Object

Pronouns Together Capitulo 14 La familia y los consejos Actividades de comunicacion

La familia, las amistades y el matrimonio

Las instrucciones y los mandatos

Las ordenes, los consejos y las sugerencias

La crianza y el comportamiento

Gramatica

14.1 Expressing each other: Reciprocal Nouns

14.2 Describing: ser and estar

14.3 Giving Direct Commands: Polite and Informal

14.4 Using Softened Commands: The Subjunctive Mood

14.5 Saying Let/Have Someone Else Do It!: ¡Que + Subjunctive!

Capitulo 15 El porvenir Actividades de comunicacion

El futuro y las metas personales

Cuestiones sociales

El futuro y la tecnologia: Posibilidades y consecuencias

Gramatica

15.1 Talking about the Future: The Future Tense

15.2 Talking about When: The Subjunctive in Time Clauses

15.3 Adding Details and Expressing Why and How: More Uses of the Subjunctive

15.4 Expressing Opinions and Reactions: Indicative and Subjunctive

15.5 Hypothetical Reactions: The Conditional

15.6 If Clauses and the Past Subjunctive

About the author

Tracy D. Terrell (late) received his Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and published extensively in the area of Spanish dialectology. Professor Terrell’s publications on second-language acquisition are widely known in the United States and abroad.

Magdalena Andrade received her first BA in Spanish and French and a second BA in English from California State University, San Diego. After teaching in the Calexico Unified School District Bilingual Program for several years, she taught elementary and intermediate Spanish at both San Diego State and the University of California, Irvine, where she also taught Spanish for Heritage Speakers and Humanities Core Courses. Upon receiving her PhD from the University of California, Irvine, she continued to teach there for several years and also at the University of California, Riverside, and California State University, Long Beach, where she taught the graduate foreign language methods courses and coordinated the Spanish and French TA Programs as well as the Credential Program for foreign languages. For several years she has taught at the community college level, but currently, she is taking time off from regular teaching to help dyslexic children hone their reading skills. She also tutors special-needs students taking college-level Spanish courses. Professor Andrade has coauthored the textbook Dos mundos: Comunicación y comunidad and the readers Mundos de fantasía: Fábulas, cuentos de hadas y leyendas and Cocina y comidas hispanas (McGraw Hill).

Jeanne Egasse received her BA and MA in Spanish Linguistics from the University of California, Irvine. She also holds California Credentials for Spanish as well as for Bilingual Cross-Cultural Education. Professor Egasse has taught foreign-language methodology courses and introductory linguistics, and served as supervisor of foreign language and ESL teachers in training for the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine. From 1980 to 2020 she was a full-time professor of Spanish, coordinator of the Spanish Department, and co-chair of World Languages at Irvine Valley College. Professor Egasse continues to offer online conversation groups for local college students and volunteers for the Irvine Valley College Foundation. In addition, she serves as a consultant for local schools and colleges on implementing the Natural Approach in the language classroom. She has coauthored the first-year college Spanish textbook Dos mundos: Comunicación y comunidad and the readers Cocina y comidas hispanas and Mundos de fantasía: Fábulas, cuentos de hadas y leyendas (McGraw Hill).

Elías Miguel Muñoz holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of California, Irvine, and has taught language and literature at the university level. Dr. Muñoz is the author of Viajes fantásticos and Ladrón de la mente, titles in the Storyteller’s Series by McGraw Hill, and coauthor of the textbook Dos mundos: Comunicación y comunidad, also from McGraw Hill. He has published six novels, which include Vida mía, Brand New Memory, and Diary of Fire; two books of literary criticism; and two poetry collections. One of his plays was produced off-Broadway, and his creative work has been featured in numerous anthologies and source books, including Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States, The Encyclopedia of American Literature, W.W. Norton’s New Worlds of Literature, and The Scribner Writers Series: Latino and Latina Writers. He is currently at work on a sci-fi historical novel.

Product details

• Authors: Magdalena Andrade, Andrade Magdalena, Jeanne Egasse, Egasse Jeanne, Elías Miguel Muñoz, Tracy Terrell, Tracy D Terrell
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.02.2009
• EAN: 9780073385211
• ISBN: 978-0-07-338521-1
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 285 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 1597 g
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Spanish, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Spanish, Language teaching & learning material & coursework, Language teaching and learning material and coursework