Fotonovela Video
This specially-shot video, a favorite among students using VISTAS, is closely and distinctively integrated with the textbook in each lesson in the Fotonovela and Estructura sections. The Fotonovela video contains approximately five minutes of footage for each of the textbook's eighteen lessons. The modules present the adventures of four college students from various Spanish-speaking countries who are studying at the University of San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador. They each decide to spend a vacation break on a bus tour of the Ecuadorian countryside with the ultimate goal of hiking up a volcano. The video, shot in various locations in Ecuador, tells their story and the story of Don Francisco, the tour bus driver who accompanies them.
Each video module depicts the characters interacting within the context of the corresponding lesson's theme, using the vocabulary and grammar taught in that lesson of the textbook. As the video progresses, the live segments carefully combine new vocabulary and grammar with previously taught language.
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