Spanish for Health Care / Edition 2

by Patricia Rush, Patricia Houston

Overview

What you need to know - now!
Designed for beginning language students (no prior knowledge of Spanish is assumed), for whom success in the field is vitally important, Spanish for Health Care prepares you to use “real-life language” on the job, immediately. A focus on practical language learned in context makes Spanish accessible for the health professional.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205696512
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	02/09/2010
Series:	MySpanishLab Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.50(d)

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Purpose

Occupational or vocational Spanish—for general student access as a regularly scheduled class or contract training within organizations—is one of the fastest-growing areas of language instruction throughout the country. Spanish at Work is an innovative, focused, and streamlined series designed to allow instructors to create and deliver pragmatic, "real world" language and culture training programs so that students can master "need-to-know" language. Each book in the series is self-contained: Vocabulary, grammar examples, practice activities, and cultural topics all relate to the occupational theme of the volume.

Spanish for Health Care is the first of this series. Students, whether professionals already working in the field or career/goal-oriented students in an occupational training program, are presented key vocabulary in a comprehensible-input format, focusing on easily mastered core expressions. Art, realia, photographs, and brief dialogues, supported by brief grammar explanations, reinforce needed terms. In class, students will practice communicative survival using key vocabulary essential to each context to enable them to utilize their Spanish in the real world at work. Highlights of the Program

Spanish for Health Care has ten chapters plus a brief preliminary lesson and two review chapters. Each lesson has two modules, each with two vocabulary segments and two grammar segments using the context-appropriate vocabulary. The lessons end with the vocabulary list and synthesis activities combining listening, speaking, reading, and writing. All exercises move from mechanical toproduction-oriented, following the logical progression of language acquisition. The final section, Algo más, features a culturally informative reading and sends the student out to the real world to look for material tied to the theme of the chapter. Organization of the Text

• Vocabulary presentation: Each of the two modules presents key vocabulary by means of art, realia, photographs, and brief dialogues. The inclusion of two separate spreads in each module allows for manageable amounts of easily mastered, core expressions pertinent to each occupational area.
• Grammar approach: Grammar practice is embedded automatically in context, not called out as mastery exercises. In class, students will focus on communicative survival using basic vocabulary essential to the topic to enable them to utilize their Spanish in the real world of their job environment. Brief grammar explanations, two per module, are presented in "chunks:" Examples are thematically related to the topic of the unit.
• Vocabulary summary: Each module's vocabulary is listed by function—nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other expressions. The glossary at the end of the book lists the lesson in which the item was introduced, intended as a convenient reference, especially for preview/review.
• Síntesis: Skills and topics are interwoven at the end of each chapter into a series of skill-building and skill-chaining activities that bring together the chapter vocabulary, structures, and cultural content. In recognition of the increased interest in Applied Spanish courses across the country, each of the ten regular lessons concludes with a task-based module in which students use Spanish in a realistic, applied way. Modules focus on a variety of fields; students may seek information about future careers or may learn more about their current careers. Art, articles, and other documents emphasize the usefulness and vitality of Spanish in today's world.
  • A escuchar develops students' ability to understand spoken Spanish in a variety of authentic contexts.
  • A conversar includes open-ended speaking activities based on naturally occurring discourse situations. Students learn to express and discuss their own needs and interests.
  • A leer teaches students how to become independent readers by introducing basic strategies for understanding the general meaning of a text as well as for extracting specific information from it.
  • A escribir provides activities in which students learn to compose messages and memos, paragraphs, and publicity announcements.
• Algo más: This section focuses on contemporary cultural issues related to the chapter theme. The hentana cultural reading exposes the student to key information. A broad variety of contemporary topics is featured, appropriate to the lesson's context. A buscar, immediately following, then guides students to gather information to enhance their own connection to this topic.

Components

• Test
• Workbook
• Audio CD with available tapescript, including listening segments, dialogues, and vocabulary lists
• Instructor's Resource Manual, including tests
• Interactive, text-specific Web site, including tests and links

For the student

Welcome! Spanish at Work has been designed for you to use in your daily work situation, improving your ability to interact with your clients. You'll find a user-friendly text, combining appropriate vocabulary and concise grammar explanations with realia from today's world to lead you into the real world of Spanish for Health Care. We want you to be able to react to your daily job environment, meeting your needs with hands-on language and giving you enough to survive in the health-care field without loading you down with translation exercises. Our real-life context is intended to transfer directly to your daily "need-to-know" activities. We encourage you to jump right in and join us.

Table of Contents

• Lección 1 - Una visita al médico
• Lección 2 - El cuerpo humano
• Lección 3 - Las dolencias
• Lección 4 - Las enfermedades graves
• Lección 5 - ¡Emergencia!
• Lección 6 - Repaso I
• Lección 7 - La comida y la nutrición
• Lección 8 - La maternidad y la pediatría
• Lección 9 - Problemas de salud
• Lección 10 - En el hospital
• Lección 11 - ¿Adónde tengo que ir?
• Lección 12 - Repaso II

Preface

Purpose

Occupational or vocational Spanish—for general student access as a regularly scheduled class or contract training within organizations—is one of the fastest-growing areas of language instruction throughout the country. Spanish at Work is an innovative, focused, and streamlined series designed to allow instructors to create and deliver pragmatic, "real world" language and culture training programs so that students can master "need-to-know" language. Each book in the series is self-contained: Vocabulary, grammar examples, practice activities, and cultural topics all relate to the occupational theme of the volume.

Spanish for Health Care is the first of this series. Students, whether professionals already working in the field or career/goal-oriented students in an occupational training program, are presented key vocabulary in a comprehensible-input format, focusing on easily mastered core expressions. Art, realia, photographs, and brief dialogues, supported by brief grammar explanations, reinforce needed terms. In class, students will practice communicative survival using key vocabulary essential to each context to enable them to utilize their Spanish in the real world at work.

Highlights of the Program

Spanish for Health Care has ten chapters plus a brief preliminary lesson and two review chapters. Each lesson has two modules, each with two vocabulary segments and two grammar segments using the context-appropriate vocabulary. The lessons end with the vocabulary list and synthesis activities combining listening, speaking, reading, and writing. All exercises move from mechanical toproduction-oriented, following the logical progression of language acquisition. The final section, Algo más, features a culturally informative reading and sends the student out to the real world to look for material tied to the theme of the chapter.

Organization of the Text

• Vocabulary presentation: Each of the two modules presents key vocabulary by means of art, realia, photographs, and brief dialogues. The inclusion of two separate spreads in each module allows for manageable amounts of easily mastered, core expressions pertinent to each occupational area.
• Grammar approach: Grammar practice is embedded automatically in context, not called out as mastery exercises. In class, students will focus on communicative survival using basic vocabulary essential to the topic to enable them to utilize their Spanish in the real world of their job environment. Brief grammar explanations, two per module, are presented in "chunks:" Examples are thematically related to the topic of the unit.
• Vocabulary summary: Each module's vocabulary is listed by function—nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other expressions. The glossary at the end of the book lists the lesson in which the item was introduced, intended as a convenient reference, especially for preview/review.
• Síntesis: Skills and topics are interwoven at the end of each chapter into a series of skill-building and skill-chaining activities that bring together the chapter vocabulary, structures, and cultural content. In recognition of the increased interest in Applied Spanish courses across the country, each of the ten regular lessons concludes with a task-based module in which students use Spanish in a realistic, applied way. Modules focus on a variety of fields; students may seek information about future careers or may learn more about their current careers. Art, articles, and other documents emphasize the usefulness and vitality of Spanish in today's world.
• A escuchar develops students' ability to understand spoken Spanish in a variety of authentic contexts.
• A conversar includes open-ended speaking activities based on naturally occurring discourse situations. Students learn to express and discuss their own needs and interests.
• A leer teaches students how to become independent readers by introducing basic strategies for understanding the general meaning of a text as well as for extracting specific information from it.
• A escribir provides activities in which students learn to compose messages and memos, paragraphs, and publicity announcements.
• Algo más: This section focuses on contemporary cultural issues related to the chapter theme. The hentana cultural reading exposes the student to key information. A broad variety of contemporary topics is featured, appropriate to the lesson's context. A buscar, immediately following, then guides students to gather information to enhance their own connection to this topic.

Components

• Test
• Workbook
• Audio CD with available tapescript, including listening segments, dialogues, and vocabulary lists
• Instructor's Resource Manual, including tests
• Interactive, text-specific Web site, including tests and links

For the student

Welcome! Spanish at Work has been designed for you to use in your daily work situation, improving your ability to interact with your clients. You'll find a user-friendly text, combining appropriate vocabulary and concise grammar explanations with realia from today's world to lead you into the real world of Spanish for Health Care. We want you to be able to react to your daily job environment, meeting your needs with hands-on language and giving you enough to survive in the health-care field without loading you down with translation exercises. Our real-life context is intended to transfer directly to your daily "need-to-know" activities. We encourage you to jump right in and join us.