¡Vámonos al cine!: Short Movies for Spanish Conversation is designed to engage students and inspire lively conversational practice. This package provides language learners with a collection of short films in Spanish, coupled with vocabulary and grammar activities, to support language acquisition and improve their speaking ability.
Vocabulario útil sections at the beginning of each chapter identify words that appear in the short movie and words that will be useful for discussion.
Antes de ver el corto sections prompt students to answer preliminary questions and make predictions about the movie they are going to watch.
Después de ver el corto sections target knowledge formation and inspire greater levels of comprehension competence regarding the topics covered in the movie.
Práctica gramátical sections include one grammatical aspect per chapter that is related to the movie and a review chart or explanation of the grammatical point.
Nota cultural sections expand on the topic covered by the short movie, reinforcing comprehension of the topic and helping students develop an understanding of Hispanic culture, history, and social habits.
Y ahora tú sections promote creativity and oral fluency, encouraging the reader to integrate and apply the material from the chapter.
Links and QR codes within the text provide students with easy access to the individual films.