There are 14 chapters.

Animals Crazy ( ¡ Muy loco! Mexico

Art Family Restaurant

Birds Fruits Spain

Body House Vegetables

Calendar & Celebrations

The book also has cool "FUN FACTS" all about Hispanic cultures.

EXAMPLES:

FUN FACT: "Fajitas" are little girdles.

FUN FACT: According to Guinness World Records, the largest bunch of bananas was

grown in the Canary Islands and had 473 bananas on it.

A GREAT GIFT!

What a perfect gift for:

• parents to give their middle school sons or daughters or relatives who are

taking – or are about to take – Spanish.

• high school Spanish students.

• people who love the Spanish language.

• teacher colleagues.

• a friend who is about to travel to Mexico or Spain or another Spanish-

speaking destination and wants to immerse himself or herself in Spanish and Hispanic cultures.

ATTENTION, TEACHERS!

Teachers! This book…

• gives you a challenge for every day of the school year…and more!

• gives you cool "stand-up" comedian material!

• gives you jokes & puns that will spice up your lessons and keep the students'

attention!

• will help students make visual, cognitive and affective associations and

remember vocabulary more easily!

• makes humorous and creative connections which enhance learning!

• will get your students "groaning" so much that they'll claim they can write

better jokes. Just what you wanted! Then you challenge them to write 3 to 5

original puns for the current chapter vocabulary!

• is a perfect gift for that special prize or student award.

• "trains" students to see and make word connections as they study Spanish

vocabulary.

SAMPLE JOKES

What Mexican oven repairman tells people he'll be back?

Horno Schwarzenegger ( Arnold ; un horno = oven)

What Bruce Springsteen hit is about a free-spirited Mexican grapefruit on a

motorcyle?

"Born Toronja" ("Born to Run"; un atoronja = grapefruit)

If you travel from Spain to Romania and you run out of things to wear, where are

you?

at the end of Eu-ropa (your rope; la ropa = clothing; Europa = Europe )

Who gave Spanish people the idea to take a two-hour afternoon nap?

their an-siestas (ancestors; una siesta = afternoon nap or break)

How did Seinfeld's friend Elaine describe the Mexican birthday party?

"Piñata, yada yada." (una piñata)

© 2007 Susan M. Fenton Published by McGraw-Hill Trade.