This book offers 50 Spanish short stories for intermediate and advanced Spanish students designed to help them recognize implicit meanings, summarize information and reconstruct arguments, on a variety of topics.
You will find inspiring and motivational stories of people like Oprah, John Roebling, Raoul Wallenberg, Alfred Nobel, Jackie Robinson, and Viktor Frankl, as well as anecdotes on many subjects, ranging from geography and nature to history, psychology, literature, and philosophy.
Research shows that, when learning a new language, students who read for pleasure make the most progress on vocabulary acquisition and are better at understanding grammar structures.
Short Stories to Learn Spanish, Vol. 2: For Intermediate and Advanced Students will help Spanish students from levels B2, C1, and C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages learn or practice Spanish, acquire new vocabulary, and go over the most used grammar structures without even thinking about grammar.
These stories have been written in plain Spanish, without technicalities or difficult vocabulary that requires continually looking up for words in the dictionary. They also cover every conjugation of verbs (in the indicative, subjunctive, and imperative modes, both simple and compound tenses), non-personal forms of the verb (infinitive, participle, and gerund), and verbal voices (active and passive).
The book also includes useful learning support features, such as comprehension and discussion questions, description of keywords, and a review of the verbs used in the story in different tenses.