Bookmarks: A Companion Text for Like Water for Chocolate (Bookmarks: Fluency Through Novels) - Softcover

Giannotti, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472085964 ISBN 13: 9780472085965

Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

A Companion Text forLike Water for Chocolate provides exercises and activities for ESL students who are reading the English translation of the novel by Laura Esquivel (published by Doubleday). Set during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Like Water for Chocolate is a story about an extended Mexican family and what happens when one daughter is not permitted to marry the man she loves. Cooking and food are central to the story line and help thread the story together.
A Companion TextforLike Water for Chocolate is made up of six units, each covering two chapters in the novel. Every unit contains a preview section, free writing exercises, a short glossary (to help with Spanish words), comprehension quizzes, vocabulary exercises and summarizing exercises, a section devoted to response journals, and topics for discussion. The "Beyond the Novel" section includes facts about U.S. and Mexican history and folk tales. Illustrations throughout the book help to engage students and offer visual support for reading comprehension.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0472085964
• ISBN 13: 9780472085965
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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