Enjoy the tales of Puerto Rico--in Spanish and in English

In "Stories from Puerto Rico/Historias de Puerto Rico," we've placed the Spanish and English stories side by side--"lado a lado"--so you can practice and improve your reading skills in your new language while enjoying the support of your native tongue. This way, you'll avoid the inconvenience of constantly having to look up unfamiliar words and expressions in a dictionary. Read as much as you can understand, and then look to the facing page for help if necessary. As you read, you can check your comprehension by comparing the two versions of the story. You'll also find a bilingual vocabulary list at the end of the book, so you'll have a handy reference for new words.

"Stories from Puerto Rico/Historias de Puerto Rico" gives you the change to Enjoy 18 well-known Puerto Rican short stories that stretch from the dawn of creation to the twentieth century Fine-tune your language skills while gaining insight into the rich cultural heritage of the Puerto Rico people Improve your reading and listening skills with free audio downloads of six chapters from the book at mhprofessional.com

Robert L. Muckley and Adele Martinez-Santiago are experienced Spanish educators and authors.

Adapted from the movie and screenplay of the same name by director Xie Tieli, this intermediate-advanced Chinese language film guide/reader helps students make the difficult transition from the simplified and fully explicated language of the textbook to the unglossed world of Chinese print culture. The authors have expanded on the traditional film guide by embedding the transcript of the film's dialog in a narrative. Designed especially with the growing numbers of heritage speakers in mind, this expanded screenplay format models for students a more formal, abstract level of language, with an emphasis on techniques of sustained description and narration. The screenplay format also provides added flexibility: while designed for use in conjunction with the film, the text may also stand alone as a short story reader. This screenplay, based on a May Fourth Movement short story by Rou Shi, offers an engaging introduction to modern Chinese literature, articulating many of the significant cultural issues facing China to this day.

The Jewish Book of Ecclesiastes. Adapted and translated into Modern Akan by Paa Kwesi Imbeah for kasahorow.

This primer, first published in 1910, is intended for early readers, and for those who teach them. It has a relatively small vocabulary of just over 200 words, and presents nine classic stories: The Little Red Hen, The Ginger bread Boy, The Old Woman and the Pig, The Boy and the Goat, The Pancake, Chicken Licken, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Tuppens, and Little Spider's First Web. Charming black and white illustrations accompany each story.

Augustus the tiger was sad. He had lost his smile. So he did a huge tigery stretch, and set off to find it. This book is an enchanting retelling of the famous folktale.

Learning to read Japanese is a little like running a marathon: it is a long, drawn out process, and it can get a little boring along the way. What we learners of Japanese need is a little fun now and then, something that brings a smile to our faces. As luck would have it, this book does just that. This magic trick is accomplished by the book's nine curious stories. Taken from the weekly magazine "Shukan Asahi," these stories, while true to life, verge on the hard to believe, and that's what evokes the magic element of fun.
But that's not all. Each story is accompanied by a translation, faithfully done and easy to follow. Then, sentence by sentence, follows a short gloss of each word and phrase, a reverse derivation of each declined verb and adjective, detailed notes on vocabulary and grammar, and information and commentary on the cultural background. All of these aids can be accessed easily when needed.
"Reading Japanese with a Smile: Nine Stories from a Japanese Weekly Magazine for Intermediate Learners" represents the best of two worlds -- stories that are both fully annotated and enjoyable to read.
Eight of the nine stories in this book were first published under the title "Strange but True" in 1997.

The first advanced Korean reading text for non-native speakers, Selected Readings in Korean consists of eighteen lessons on diverse, stimulating topics such as Korean traditions, culture, and society. It is designed for use by students who have completed the fourth-year level in Korean (approximately five hundred class hours) or the equivalent. Each lesson consists of six sections: pre-reading group activities, which not only serve as a schema for efficient comprehension of the reading text to follow, but also help students broaden their relevant knowledge; an authentic main reading text on an informative and interesting topic; explanations in Korean and English of words that may be unfamiliar to students, including words indicating abstract or culture-specific concepts; explanations of idiomatic expressions; extensive exercises intended to help students master the contents of the text, new vocabulary, and grammar while improving their composition and oral presentation skills; and post-reading activities designed to further thinking and group discussion on subjects related to the main topic of the lesson. Appended are translations of the main reading texts of all eighteen lessons and a Korean-English glossary. Overall, special effort has been made to render the volume learner-centered and learner-friendly.

Escrita entre 1883 y 1885, La Regenta fue un exito en los sectores progresistas desde el primer momento, a pesar del silencio o la reaccion negativa de gran parte de la critica periodistica conservadora de su tiempo. Consciente de la plenitud y madurez de su novela, el propio "Clarin" en una carta a un amigo confesaba su emocion por haber acabado "a los treinta y tres anos una obra de arte."

This is the instructor's manual to accompany Cinephile 1: Les Visiteurs.

This is the instructor's manual to accompany Cine-Module 1: Jean de Florette.

Teachers and librarians now have a way to quickly and easily implement innovative strategies for using props and visual aids to connect young readers with books.

Although his audacious, erotic, and satirical verses survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has become in our time a canonical author, ranking in popularity and importance with Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. And for students and teachers of Latin, Daniel H. Garrison's "The Student's Catullus" is a definitive introductory text. This fourth edition, thoroughly revised, makes Catullus' famous poems more accessible than ever.
A comprehensive reference, "The Student's Catullus" includes the following features:
- A brief overview of Catullus's life and artistic persona
- A fresh recension of all 113 poems
- A commentary in English on each poem, explaining difficult points of Latin and salient aspects of Catullus' artistry
- A Who's Who of the people in Catullus' poems
- An explanation of Catullan meters
- A glossary of literary terms used in the commentary
- A complete Latin-English Catullan vocabulary
- Six reference maps
New to this fourth edition are dozens of additional notes to aid comprehension, more nuanced definitions in the vocabulary list, and amplified information in the appendices. In addition, Garrison has expanded his introduction to include tips for students and teachers. Drawing on years of classroom experience, Garrison urges readers to avoid rote translation and instead engage thoroughly with the poet's delightful language, syntax, structure, and rhythm.

This book is the second of three early chapter books about the adventures of Melvil and Dewey, two lovable gerbils, who live in an elementary school library. It will be packaged with the two additional chapter books plus a teacher's guide, Melvil and Dewey Teach Literacy, that will focus on literacy building activities for elementary age students. Activities will be coordinated to the AASL Information Literacy Standards, Blooms Taxonomy and Howard Gardiner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. This first of the three books is a reissue by Pam Swallow, who has many children's books in print.

Seleccion poetica de caracter cronologico que abarca de forma panoramica la totalidad de su produccion. Perteneciente a una saga de escritores, es uno de los representativos barceloneses de la generacion de los 50. Su obra tiene una gran carga autobiografica, con un entramado mora, vital, social y estetico.