Throughout the innovative and engaging activities, students must demonstrate an understanding of what they are reading or hearing in order to successfully complete the tasks. In each lesson, many activities focus on the vocabulary and grammar presented in the corresponding chapter of the textbook. Others introduce students to characters from the new video, inviting students to write to them on e-mail or to converse with them. When the activity has been successfully completed, all images and their corresponding descriptions are displayed together. Students may also save their work as a text file and print it out or e-mail it to their instructor.
Students hear four questions, recording their responses to the questions.
The one on the left was written by Jos Miguel Velasco, a college student who lives in Quito, Ecuador. Each e-mail is personalized to the student and includes the current date. Also included in each chapter of the CD-ROM is the Vistazo cultural section, in which students can read about a Hispanic cultural topic related to the chapter theme. The weblink button initiates the program to search for a browser on the student's hard drive, then sends them to the URL for the web site. The McGraw-Hill Companies.