From the Back Cover"Hoy dia: Spanish for Real Life " Welcome to today's text for today's instructors, students and classrooms... "Hoy dia: Spanish for Real Life! " Focuses on the Spanish you need for everyday communication Teaches you to function in a variety of real-life settings Helps you quickly develop your skills through scenarios tied to career paths that are immediately applicable in your real life Available in 2 volumes: Volume 1: Chapters 1-6 Volume 2: Chapters 7-12Product DescriptionThis package contains:0205756026: Hoy d¿ Spanish for Real Life, Volume 10020575645X: Student Activities Manual for Hoy dia: Spanish for Real Life, Volume 1 425228606: OXFORD NEW SPANISH DICTIONARYAbout the AuthorJohn McMinn teaches both Spanish and French at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. He graduated with his Masters degree in Romance Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981, and while pursuing doctoral studies there, he began working as an editor of Spanish and French textbooks at Holt, Rinehart and Winston and Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich publishers. He has worked as an editor on numerous texts, and in addition to "Trato hecho "and "Hoy dia: Spanish for Real Life," he is the co-author of the secondary-level Spanish program "Expresate," as well as the college-level French texts "Horizons" and "Qu'est-ce qu'on dit?" Nuria Alonso Garcia is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Providence College Department of Foreign Language Studies, where she teaches courses in Spanish language and culture, linguistics, language methodology and global studies. She graduated from the Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, with a degree in Spanish Philology, and holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia in Madrid. She has published various articles in sociolinguistics, and authored a number of pedagogical materials for foreign languages. She is a co-author of "Trato hecho," and "Hoy dia: Spanish for Real Life" published by Pearson-Prentice Hall.