The Workbook, by Alice. A Arana (formerly of Fullerton College) and Oswaldo Arana (formerly of California State University, Fullerton), continues the successful format of previous editions by... This description may be from another edition of this product.
My daughter's school only sold the materials she needed for her Spanish class as a set over 250.00. We were thrilled that we could order the materials separately at a decent savings! Good news!
Exact Item
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This time I ordered the correct workbook. I chose the free shipping method and I believe it arrived within a week or week and a half. I would buy again
EXELLENT, HELPFUL WORKBOOK
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Excellent workbook to accomany your learning of Spanish. Very clear in English how to proceed. The seller sent me a pristine book.
Puntos de Partida Workbook
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This book was delivered to me very quickly and in extremely good shape. I would buy books again!!! I had a very good experience.
Excellent teaching tool
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
The book by itself would be lacking as another reviewer suggested. But it doesn't stand alone -- if you buy the package you get a lab manual, a workbook, audio CD's for vocabulary prep and for the lab work, and a software CD with more exercises. The lab manual works with audio CD's for listening & speaking related exercises, and the workbook has reading & writing exercises, plus if you do the software exercises and the additional exercises and quizzes on the website, you find you have learned the grammar and vocabulary of the chapter without having to resort to making your own flash cards or writing out sentences on your own. The volume of exercises is perfect. And the exercises in the workbook & lab manual have explanations of the purpose of the exercise, with lots of repetition. (e.g. "the purpose of this exercise is to listen for specific information. Don't get distracted by unfamiliar vocabulary"). I have not worked with other Spanish materials, but I have with German and Arabic and I think Puntos is excellent. Make sure you buy the whole package and not just the book.
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