Ocho Mundos: Themes for Vocabulary Building and Cultural Awareness

Ocho Mundos ("Eight Worlds") is a textbook useful as a companion to any intermediate Spanish course (formal or home study). Each of its eight sections (worlds) presents reading material that predominantly uses the particular verb tense under study.Ocho Mundos allows the reader to do three things: 1) Practice reading (and comprehension) - each section provides several reading exercises accompanied by questions to measure comprehension, 2) Focus on specific verb tenses - each section is devoted to a specific grammatical form and 3) Progressively build vocabulary and grammar skills - the book gets more difficult in later chapters.This book is definitely more interesting than most of the dry material used by standard Spanish courses. Although the book has been in print for quite awhile, the author has made it a point to present articles that are thought provoking.