| ¡Aproveche! is an entry level Spanish activity book designed for use both in and out of the classroom by any English-speaking student of Spanish. Aproveche provides effective, entertaining instructional strategies and activities for the Spanish language novice. It seeks to build vocabulary and understandng of basic grammatical concepts. A LA CONQUISTA, Ms. Rabel-McLaine's most recent publication, is 'la otra media naranja' . A la conquista continues the good fight for mastery of Spanish in the present tense and provides the student and teacher with an arsenal of step-by-step exercises, conversational cues, and a plethora of reading and writing activities which are designed to raise the student's skills to a higher plane. |
| Independent study is easy with Aproveche! This delightful book helps industrious students to retain and amplify their knowledge of the Spanish language and culture in anticipation of advanced study in high school or college. Immediate feedback is provided by answer keys in the Master Edition. |
| The block schedule. Unlike many books in the educational marketplace today, these books are designed to produce optimum learning in the block schedule. Due to its condensed class time, the block schedule creates special challenges and disadvantages for the student of a second language. These books use mnemonic devices and visual aids to help students learn and retain vocabualry and concepts in a relatively short period of time. |
| Welcome to SpanishWorkbooks.com featuring APROVECHE and A LA CONQUISTA |
| Students who are having a difficult time with the early study Spanish. These students will appreciate the large number of mnemonic devices and novel study helps within the books, including uniquely formatted, easy-to-use study lists and notes which anticipate common pitfalls experienced by English-speakers. |
| Teachers who need flexible, palatable materials for diversified instruction. Indeed, these books were written by one such teacher of Spanish who needed quality, student-centered, clearly written books to address the milieu of students and abilities found in public school classes in the U.S. |
| Designed to teach large amounts of vocabulary and grammatical concepts in a short period of time, these books are valuable tools for the student and, also, for the Spanish teacher who seeks even, positive achievement for all students in level one Spanish classrooms. |
Aproveche and A la conquista were written with the following concerns in mind: |
| Level two concepts and instruction. A LA CONQUISTA teaches present indicative tense but, unlike APROVECHE, it introduces concepts normally reserved for level two Spanish, including present progressive tense, g-verbs, reflexive verbs, the preterit and imperfect tenses, contrasted use of these two simple past tenses, and contrasted use of reflexive and object pronouns. There are also songs and a long list of websites which afford challenge or added practice. |
