¿Qué Pasa? 1 has been developed to address the needs of today’s Spanish teachers and their students.
- Adopts a communicative approach which focuses on oral proficiency, listening to and understanding the spoken language
- Uses interdisciplinary teaching methods and an integrated approach to the development of language skills (reading, writing, listening, speech and conversation)
- Suitable for mixed-ability classes
- Student-friendly layout, with modern, full-colour design and vibrant photos and creative illustrations
- Each unit begins with a checklist of the conversation, speech, listening, reading, and grammatical skills the student will learn
- Reading and writing exercises incorporate students’ own lived experiences bringing the real world into the classroom
- Uses authentic texts and covers themes that provide the building blocks for language learning
- Culture notes in each unit develop students’ socio-cultural knowledge and promote intercultural awareness
- Group and pair work fosters peer-to-peer teaching and communicative language learning
- Task-switching, problem-solving, mini-projects and self-assessment tools develop critical thinking skills
- Guided questioning that explores the structure of the language to find underlying patterns
- Students learn to use grammar in context, supported by practice exercises