Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary, Premium

✍ Scribed by Dorothy Richmond

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 467
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Expand your Spanish vocabulary and sharpen your writing and speaking skills with the best review and practice workbook for beginning and advanced-beginning students!

Now in its fourth edition, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary is the go-to review and practice workbook for beginning and advanced-beginning level learners of Spanish, giving you a solid foundation to communicate comfortably in Spanish, verbally or in writing.

Each chapter of this comprehensive book focuses on a theme, ranging from family and travel, to school, work, and the environment, on which you can build your language skills in a systematic manner. As you lay the foundation for an ever-growing vocabulary, you’ll consolidate your knowledge with plenty of exercises to gain the confidence you need to converse with confidence. 

Boost your mastery of the Spanish language with Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary, Premium Fourth Edition.

Features:

• Helps you build fluency with themed chapters to grow your skills in a systematic progression
• Covers the latest vocabulary in evolving areas, such as technology, communications and the media
• Develops your active Spanish vocabulary with more than 240 engaging exercises
• New: Audio answer key to 70 exercises to help with pronunciation skills and memorization, via app
  
  
  
  

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Preliminary matters
The Spanish alphabet and its pronunciation
Stress and accent marks
Plurals
Diphthongs
Punctuation marks
Cognates
Basic greetings
Highly useful data
1 The basics
Definite articles
Indefinite articles
Yo tengo..., yo quiero
Está, the “is” of location
The use of hay
VOCABULARY BUILDING The diminutive suffixes -ito and -ita
Standard orthographic changes
Cracking the gender code
Vocabulary
Family and friends
The animal kingdom
Around the house
Some basic words
The numbers 0–10
Está
Words of location
Items in and around the house
2 Regular verbs
Conjugation of reguarl -ar verbs
Deleting the understood subject pronoun
Conjugation of reguarl-er verbs
Qualitative adjectives
Conjugation of regular-ir verbs
VOCABULARY BUILDING The suffix -ería
Vocabulary
Common -ar verbs
Places of employment
Musical instruments
Common -er verbs
Food and drink
Colors
Common qualitative (descriptive) adjectives
Cognate adjectives
Common -ir verbs
In and around the school
Stores
3 Asking questions
Simple questions
Negative responses
Complex questions
Negative questions
Questions of quantity and limitation
The contractions al and del
Street addresses
VOCABULARY BUILDING The suffixes -ero and -era
Vocabulary
Items of clothing
Fabrics and material
Clothing: parts and decorations
Tourist sites: buildings
More tourist sites
Cooking phrases that use al
Directions on a map
4 Irregular verbs
Jugar (to play [a game])
Poder (to be able to) and querer (to want)
Tener (to have)
Possessive adjectives
Ir, salir, and venir: three irregular verbs of motion
Hacer (to do, make)
The five senses: oír (to hear), oler (to smell), probar (to taste), ver (to see), tocar (to touch)
Direct object pronouns
The personal a
Poner (to put, place)
Dar (to give) and decir (to say, tell)
Indirect object pronouns
VOCABULARY BUILDING The suffixes -era and -ero
Vocabulary
Sports and games
Sports matters
Means of transportation
Idioms with hacer
The weather
Types of books and things to read
Professions
Household items/fixtures
Verbs of communication and the movement/transfer of objects
5 The verbs ser and estar (to be)
Conjugation of ser and estar
Uses of estar
Preposition + infinitive
Demonstrative adjectives
Uses of ser
Possessive pronouns
Comparisons with ser and estar
Neuter demonstrative pronouns
VOCABULARY BUILDING Suffixes that denote origin and/or nationality
Vocabulary
Emotional states and moods
Physical conditions
Physical appearance
Results of action
Adverbs and prepositions of location
The clock
Time expressions
Significant dates of the year
Relationships
Personality descriptions
Advertising
Situational descriptions
6 Saber and conocer
Saber and conocer (to know)
Adding object pronouns to the infinitive
Pedir and preguntar (to ask)
Sacar, tomar, llevar, quitar (to take)
Completar, terminar, cumplir, acabar (de) (to complete, finish, or end)
Formation of adverbs
VOCABULARY BUILDING Compound words
Vocabulary
In the laboratory
Biology
Chemistry
Physics and mechanics
Electricity
The arts
Art styles and movements
Art class
Music
Theater and movies
Television and radio
Communications
Computers
7 Stem-changing verbs
Stem-changing verbs
VOCABULARY BUILDING The suffix -ismo
VOCABULARY BUILDING The suffix -ista
Weights and measures
VOCABULARY BUILDING The suffix -ado/-ada
Vocabulary
Life and death
The press
Politics and government
Politicians
International politics
Shopping
Weight, density, and liquid measures
Length and shape
Geometric shapes
Expressions of quantity
Containers
8 Reflexive verbs
Reflexive verbs
Ponerse, hacerse, volverse a, convertirse en, llegar a ser (to become)
Gustar
Verbs that take an indirect object pronoun
Doler
VOCABULARY BUILDING The medical suffixes -itis and -osis
Vocabulary
Common reflexive verbs
The human body
Addiction and violence
Religion 101
Religion 102
Social issues
Cooking
The emergency room
Personal hygiene
In the doctor’s office
Medical specialists
In the dentist’s office
In the optician’s office
9 Para and por
Para and por
VOCABULARY BUILDING The suffix -ario
Reciprocal pronouns
Vocabulary
Travel
Road travel
Travel by plane
Travel by train
Travel by boat
Streets and roads
Vacations and camping
At the hotel
Language
Listening and talking
Reading and writing
Postsecondary education
Geography
The environment and the ecosystem
War and peace
Weapons
Military personnel
10 The passive voice and negatives
The passive voice
Negatives
Vocabulary
Crime
Trial and sentencing
At work
In the office
In the factory
In the toolshed
Business
Banking and the economy
Social life
Answer key
Subject and vocabulary index