Upgrade your Spanish is the ideal guide for students wanting a better grade in their Spanish exams. It offers a thirty day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve your results. In the countdown to exams, students should simply spend between 30 minutes to an hour a day with this book, and see their mark go up a grade!
This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for improving your exam results: 1) Eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen; 2) Increasing and consolidating your vocabulary; 3) Moving on from school-book Spanish.
By:
Abigail Lee Six Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 294g ISBN:9780340761861 ISBN 10: 0340761865 Series:Upgrade Your... Publication Date:01 June 2001 Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Language:Spanish Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Day 1 Agreements Day 2 Describing people Day 3 Upgrade your style: easy but elegant constructions using the subjunctive Day 4 Accents for reasons other that stress rules Day 5 Vocabulary: politics current affairs Day 6 Regular verb forms Day 7 Vocabulary: the visual arts Day 8 Accents for reasons of stress rules Day 9 Vocabulary: literature Day 10 Ser and estar Day 11 Vocabulary: geography (including statistics) Day 12 Constructions of time (desde hace etc.) Day 13 Style: rhetorical signposts Day 14 Vocabulary: history (including dates) Day 15 Radical-changing verbs Day 16 Vocabulary: music Day 17 Verbs with unexpected dependent prepositions Day 18 Vocabulary: cinema Day 19 Patterns of irregularity in verbs Day 20 Vocabulary: education Day 21 Conditional sentences Day 22 Vocabulary: health Day 23 Style: dialogue and reported speech Day 24 Spelling changes Day 25 Vocabulary: science Day 26 Imperatives Day 27 Vocabulary: similes Day 28 Assorted minor points Day 29 Vocabulary: some useful set expressions for discursive writing Day 30 Medley of mixed exercises.
