Laugh 'n' Learn Spanish Featuring the #1 Comic Strip For Better or For Worse,9780071415194

Laugh 'n' Learn Spanish Featuring the #1 Comic Strip For Better or For Worse

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780071415194
ISBN10: 007141519X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-05
Publisher(s): McGraw Hill
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Summary

Pictures and humor help readers build their Spanish language skillsTo its millions of fans, the Pattersons are just like their own families, facing universal issues among daily concerns. Containing a selection of 100 syndicated Spanish-language versions of the strip that is widely read in Latin America,Laugh 'n' Learn Spanishprovides an entertaining and effective way to expand and polish conversational skills in Spanish.Readers learn by understanding and learning natural, everyday verbal interactions at home and about town, following John and Ell Patterson as they attempt to come to terms with middle age; daughter Elizabeth as she spreads her wings and goes off to college; son Michael dating and then marrying his childhood sweetheart, Deanna; daughter April as she rebels against discipline, anther grandpa who finds a second love in the autumn of his life. Each strip is graded by difficulty--Beginning, Moderate, or Challenging--and is accompanied by: Glosses that translate difficult vocabulary Usage notes to build proficiency A summarizing activity that tests comprehension Additional exercises for key idioms and word patterns appear at the end of each section

Author Biography

Lynn Johnston is the creator of the comic strip "For Better or For Worse," which is distributed by United Feature Syndicate. It appears in more than two-thousand newspapers worldwide, in twenty countries, and in eight languages, reaching 220 million readers every day. In the twenty-four years since it was developed, there have been thirty books of cartoons published.

Brenda Wegmann is an experienced teacher and author of ESL and Spanish-language textbooks and instructional guides; she also teaches at Edmonton Community College.

Table of Contents

Preface
Beginning Level
Before You Read
Comics 1-10
El español en tu vida
Comics 11-21
El español en tu vida
Comic 22-30
El español en tu vida

Moderate Level
Before You Read
Comics 31-38
El español en tu vida
Comics 39-47
El español en tu vida
Comics 48-55
El español en tu vida

Challenging Level
Before You Read
Comics 56-63
El español en tu vida
Comics 64-71
El español en tu vida
Comics 72-80
El español en tu vida

Original English Text of the For Better or For Worse Comic Strips

English Text of the Putting It All Together (Moderate and Challenging)

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