A primary Spanish course that fosters active communication through the teaching of everyday vocabulary and structures that children can immediately use to talk about their own lives. - Introduces children to Spanish using songs, activities and reinforcement exercises - Develops speaking and listening skills through the use of simple audio texts with visuals - Presents clear lesson objectives and displays new words in attractive Word Boxes - Includes Grammar Boxes which take children through new grammar points they ha ve learned - Provides a variety of stimulating activities, using co-operative learning - Easy to use by both specialist and non-specialist teachers. - Ensure affective use of the series with free teacher's notes available at www.hoddereducation.co.uk/chispas-teachers

A primary Spanish course that fosters active communication through the teaching of everyday vocabulary and structures that children can immediately use to talk about their own lives. - Introduces children to Spanish using songs, activities and reinforcement exercises - Develops speaking and listening skills through the use of simple audio texts with visuals - Presents clear lesson objectives and displays new words in attractive Word Boxes - Includes Grammar Boxes which take children through new grammar points they ha ve learned - Provides a variety of stimulating activities, using co-operative learning - Easy to use by both specialist and non-specialist teachers. - Ensure affective use of the series with free teacher's notes available at www.hoddereducation.co.uk/chispas-teachers

A primary Spanish course that fosters active communication through the teaching of everyday vocabulary and structures that children can immediately use to talk about their own lives. - Introduces children to Spanish using songs, activities and reinforcement exercises - Develops speaking and listening skills through the use of simple audio texts with visuals - Presents clear lesson objectives and displays new words in attractive Word Boxes - Includes Grammar Boxes which take children through new grammar points they ha ve learned - Provides a variety of stimulating activities, using co-operative learning - Easy to use by both specialist and non-specialist teachers. - Ensure affective use of the series with free teacher's notes available at www.hoddereducation.co.uk/chispas-teachers

Ensure that the needs of all IB Students are met with this comprehensive and flexible Student Book, written specifically for the updated Spanish ab initio course. - Communicate confidently by exploring the five prescribed themes through authentic texts and skills practice at the right level, delivered in clear learning pathways. - Produce coherent written texts and deliver proficient presentations with grammar and vocabulary introduced in context and in relation to appropriate spoken and written registers. - Improve receptive skills with authentic written texts, audio recordings spoken at a natural pace, and carefully crafted reading and listening tasks. - Promote global citizenship, intercultural understanding and an appreciation of Hispanic cultures through a wide range of text types and cultural material from around the world. - Deliver effective practice with a range of structured tasks within each unit that build reading, listening, speaking and writing skills. - Establish meaningful links to TOK and CAS, and identify learner profile attributes in action. The audio for the Student Book is FREE to download from www.hoddereducation.com/ibextras Answers to the Student Book are included in the accompanying subscription based, Teaching and Learning Resources

WARNING! Contains moderate bloody violence against slavers and plantation owners!This pioneer vampire tale from 1819 spills revenge-cold blood as its narrator leads us through high gothic terror to radical outrage on the subject of slavery, reaching a blood-soaked conclusion dripping with 'biting' polemic vilifying the bankers who caused the economic recession of that same year.An anti-capitalist horror fable from 200 years ago, The Black Vampyre vilified the worst financial predation the capitalist world would ever see, decades before Karl Marx ― the enslavement of Africans in the New World.One dead man said no! And this is his story.The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo tells the affrighting tale of a slave who is resurrected as a vampire after being killed by his owner; the slave seeks revenge by stealing the owner's son and marrying the owner's wife. The anonymous writer D'Arcy sets the story against the conditions that led to the Haitian Revolution.First published in chapbook form in New York in 1819, this emancipatory tale from literary New York in the 1810s arguably dates the birth of horror as know it!This edition features a new introduction as well as extensive notes and a guide to literary allusions.