• Ground-breaking, interactive design that includes four-color lessons with interleafed workbook and lab activities in one convenient volume
• Spiral-bound, paperback worktexts with perforated pages, so students may write in and otherwise “interact” with the lessons
• Short lessons that give students a concrete feeling of progress and success
• Specially-shot video fully integrated in every lesson section to introduce, reinforce, and recycle the lessons’ theme, vocabulary, and grammar
• Emphasis on grammar and vocabulary as tools for exchanging ideas and information, for problem solving, and for using and understanding Spanish in practical, everyday contexts
• Highly motivating, imaginative information gap and other communicative activities that involve students in the learning process and promote camaraderie among classmates
• Culture incorporated throughout each lesson both in culture-specific sections and within activities as an integral part of their content
• Ongoing strategy-based development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills
• Built-in, on-page correlation of all print and technology supplements
• Continual recycling of language across lessons, including a review of Primera parte’s lessons
1-15 in Segunda parte.
