Revised grammatical scope & sequence, including the future and conditional, for improved coverage within and across lessons
• New jump-start
A primera vista activities on each lesson’s opening page
• New engaging information gap activities in diverse formats
• New readings and additional opportunities for reading throughout the program
•
Enhanced cultural coverage with updated Panorama sections, a new Panorama cultural Video, and expanded Nota cultural sidebars
• Increased trim size of the Instructor’s Annotated Edition for improved readability and larger, easier-to-read student pages and instructor annotations
Original, hallmark features of PANORAMA
• Integrates the Fotonovela Video, up-front in each lesson of the student text
• Takes a communicative approach to learning Spanish while strongly supporting all five language-learning skills
•
Presents practical, high-frequency vocabulary
in meaningful contexts
•
Has clear, comprehensive grammar explanations with high-impact
graphics and other special features that make structures
easier to learn and use
•
Offers ample form-focused practice and directed, meaningful
exercises to make students comfortable with the language
and to give them a solid foundation for communication
•
Incorporates communicative practice throughout
each lesson in open-ended, interactive activities
•
Offers a learner-centered focus on strategies
and a process approach to reading, writing, and listening
to develop proficiency as well as critical thinking skills
•
Recycles the vocabulary and grammar in and
throughout lessons
•
Integrates the culture of the everyday lives
of Spanish-speakers and includes coverage of the entire
Spanish-speaking world
•
Supports learning with on-the-spot student sidebars and
on-page correlations of the ancillaries
that reinforce and expand lesson sections
•
Offers a complete set of print and technology
ancillaries, all closely integrated with the student text
and specifically designed to support learning
•
Has a unique, carefully crafted graphic design and organization.
Page layout, color-coded sections, and other graphic elements
enhance students’ learning and make navigation easy
Features
Details
A
primera vista activities jumpstart each lesson
of the text, allowing students to use the Spanish they already
know to talk about the new lesson-opener photos.
Information
gap activities engage students in problem-solving
and other situations based on handouts provided to the instructor
in the Information Gap Activities Booklet. Each partner has
only half of the information needed, so students must work
together, using the target language to communicate, in order
to accomplish the task at hand.
Readings
New reading-based activities involving authentic documents,
dialogues, and other brief texts provide increased reading
opportunities throughout the textbook.
Three
cultural and three literary readings are new to PANORAMA,
Second Edition. Lessons 4, 7, and 11 feature
high-interest, culturally-oriented texts; Lessons 13 and
15 offer new highly accessible, theme-related poems.
Increased
Nota cultural
sidebars expand coverage of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking
peoples and countries with a special emphasis on everyday-life
practices. In Spanish as of Lesson 7, the cultural notes also
provide additional reading practice.
On-page
correlations of the ancillaries
Recursos boxes appear in every section of
the text, highlighting the print and technology ancillaries
that reinforce and expand on the section and even including
page numbers when applicable. In
PANORAMA
2/e, the colors of the icons match those
of the actual ancillaries, making it even easier for students
to access and use the complete program.
