Keith Chambers

50 Ways to Improve Your Spanish

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Do you have a working knowledge of Spanish, but find that mistakes still creep into your language? Allow this book to come to your rescue and eliminate basic errors and slips of the pen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 130mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 161g
• ISBN-13: 9781444115949
• ISBN-10: 1444115944
• Artikelnr.: 29571598

Autorenporträt

Keith Chambers has wide experience teaching Spanish in secondary schools, higher education and adult education.

Inhaltsangabe

: Meet the author
: Only got a minute?
: Only got 5 minutes?
: Only got 10 minutes?
: How to use this book
: Looking and sounding right
1: Speling errers - Avoiding mistakes in spelling
2a: It's acute! - Using accents to mark stress
2b: It's acute! - Problems with accents
3: Capital offence - When to use capital letters
4a: Say it after me - Keeping vowels clear and simple
4b: Say it after me - Concentrating on consonants
: Getting the structure right
: The right word in the right place
5: Now how cow brown - Problems with word order
: Nouns, adjectives and adverbs
6a: The cat sat on the mat - When to use the definite article
6b: The cat sat on the mat - Further uses of the definite article
7: What's the form? - Forms of the articles
8: 'A' or 'an' - Mistakes with the indefinite article
9a: A boy named Sue - Tricky genders
9b: A boy named Sue - More tips on gender
10: Don't agree to disagree! - Agreements
11: Blurred picture - Common mistakes with adjectives
12: A bit of this and that - Problems with demonstratives
13: More or less or just the same - Comparisons
14: It's very hard - muy and mucho
15: Softly softly - Easy does it with adverbs
: Conjunctions, questions and negatives
16: Yeah, but… no, but… - Using conjunctions
17: What was that? - Question words
18: How long is a piece of string? - Tricky questions
19: No means no! - Negative expressions
: Verbs and verb constructions
20: Hey, you! - Which word for 'you'?
21a: Clear and present danger - Pitfalls in present-tense usage
21b: Clear and present danger - Pitfalls in present-tense formation
22: All in the past - Preterite and imperfect
23a: Passive resistance - Replacing the passive with the reflexive
23b: Passive resistance - Replacing the passive with impersonal se
24: Coming and going - Use and misuse of the gerund
25a: I'll tell you what I want - Basic uses of the subjunctive
25b: I'll tell you what I want - Use and misuse of the subjunctive
26a: Gimme, gimme, gimme - Simple commands and requests
26b: Gimme, gimme, gimme - The 'true' imperative
27a: All together now - Basic errors in joining verbs
27b: All together now - Joining verbs with de and other prepositions
28: Liking and loving - gustar, encantar, querer
29: When I'm 64 - Looking into the future
30: It all depends - Verbs with differing constructions
31: What if? - Tenses with si
32: I'm not so sure! - Problems with expressions of doubt
: Pronouns and possessives
33: Only me! - Subject and prepositional pronouns
34: Indirect or direct? - Object pronouns
35a: You're out of order! - Personal pronouns: which comes first?
35b: You're out of order! - Personal pronouns: before or after the verb?
36: 'My' and 'mine' - Problems with possessives
: Numbers, dates and times
37: Figure it out! - Problems with numbers
38: When was that? - Days, dates and times
: Choosing the right words
39a: What will it be? - When to use ser
39b: What will it be? - When to use estar
40: Being and having - Alternatives to ser/estar
41a: Verbal gymnastics - jugar versus tocar
41b: Verbal gymnastics - pensar versus creer
42a: To have and to hold - tener versus haber
42b: To have and to hold - hay, hay que and tener que
43: Leave it out or I'll quit! - Problems with leaving
44: Getting the know-how - saber, conocer and poder
45: Propositions about prepositions - en, a, de
46: What's it all for? - por and para
47: The missing link - Unexpected uses of prepositions
48: Up the ante - Mistakes with 'before' and 'under'
49: It's behind you! - detrás, tras and después
50: Things aren't always what they seem! - False friends
: Glossary of grammatical terms
: Index