Negocios sin fronteras Intermediate Spanish for Business

Using a proficiency-based approach, this intermediate-level book teaches the vocabulary and grammar necessary to conduct basic business activities in Spanish speaking countries. It encourages the development of all four language skills--listening, speaking, reading, and writing--through a variety of exercises all focused on the ability to communicate and perform specific business-related tasks that readers will encounter in therealbusiness world.Content revolves around a wide variety of business themes--e.g., business travel, employment interviews, information technology, management, imports/exports, economics, advertising, marketing, finance, taxes, insurance, environmental/ethical issues, and business/corporate law. Each chapter contains 3pasos, each consisting of six major sections--Empecemos(a dialogue or paragraph used to introduce the new vocabulary in a contextualized manner);Charlemos un poco(activities that provide more basic input or require sentence-level output);Entrevista(a structured activity in which readers obtain information from others and present it to someone else);Situaciones(an unstructured activity in readers work together in an imaginary situation to solve a problem);Repaso de gramatica(a basic grammar explanation in English, followed by activities);Escribamos(a writing activity). Other features include:Una vez mas (readings taken from an authentic Spanish source, such as a newspaper or magazine, on topics of interest to businessmen and women);Carta de negocios(sample business letters); andand Panorama Cultural(computer-based activities in which readers use the Internet to explore aspects of Hispanic business culture topics).For anyone who wants to develop proficiency in using Spanish in a broad range of business situations.

1. Introductions.
Communicative Goals: Greetings, Business Correspondence. Linguistic Goals: Present Tense, Ser vs Estar.

2. The Business Trip.
Communicative Goals: Travel by Plane, Car, Train; Hotel Reservations. Linguistic Goals: Commands.

3. The Employment Interview.
Communicative Goals: Looking for Work. Linguistic Goals: Preterite vs. Imperfect.

4. Technology in Business.
Communicative Goals: Talking about Technology. Linguistic Goals: Preterite vs. Imperfect.

5. Business Administration and the Evaluation of Employees.
Communicative Goals: Assigning Tasks, Motivating, Evaluating. Linguistic Goals: Present Subjunctive.

6. Imports and Exports.
Communicative Goals: Negotiating Company Imports and Exports. Linguistic Goals: Present Subjunctive.

7. Economics.
Communicative Goals: Talking about Economic Issues. Linguistic Goals: The Perfect Tenses.

8. Marketing and Publicity.
Communicative Goals: Promotion of Company Products and Services. Linguistic Goals: Future Tense.

9. Finance I.
Communicative Goals: Forms of Payment and the Bank. Linguistic Goals: Conditional Tense.

10. Finance II.
Communicative Goals: Accounting, Taxes, Insurance. Linguistic Goals: Past Subjunctive.

11. Legal Issues in Business.
Communicative Goals: Discussing Corporate Law. Linguistic Goals: Past Subjunctive.

12. Ethical Considerations.
Communicative Goals: Discussing Ethical, Multicultural, and environmental Issues. Linguistic Goals: Uses of se, Verbs Like gustar, the Gerund.