Spanish for Social Services Enhanced Edition: The Basic Spanish Series
By Raquel Lebredo
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BASIC SPANISH FOR SOCIAL SERVICES is a career manual designed to serve those in the social services professions who seek basic conversational skills in Spanish. Written for use in two-semester or three-quarter courses, it presents everyday situations that pre-professionals and professionals may encounter when dealing with Spanish-speaking clients, patients, and personnel in the United States at work settings such as hospitals and Department of Social Services offices. This enhanced second edition introduces practical vocabulary, everyday on-the-job situations, and culture notes (Notas culturales) written from a cross-cultural perspective. It provides students with opportunities to apply, in a wide variety of practical contexts, the grammatical structures presented in the corresponding lessons of the Basic Spanish core text.
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BASIC SPANISH FOR SOCIAL SERVICES is a career manual designed to serve those in the social services professions who seek basic conversational skills in Spanish. Written for use in two-semester or three-quarter courses, it presents everyday situations that pre-professionals and professionals may encounter when dealing with Spanish-speaking clients, patients, and personnel in the United States at work settings such as hospitals and Department of Social Services offices. This enhanced second edition introduces practical vocabulary, everyday on-the-job situations, and culture notes (Notas culturales) written from a cross-cultural perspective. It provides students with opportunities to apply, in a wide variety of practical contexts, the grammatical structures presented in the corresponding lessons of the Basic Spanish core text.
Applied Presentation -- Realistic dialogues, personalized questions, situational role-plays, and realia-based activities correspond grammatically with those in Basic Spanish.
Practical, Specialized Vocabulary -– The text contains vocabulary essential for communicating in the target language, an audio program for each worktext, and Un paso más sections that offer additional vocabulary practice and realia-based activities.
Cultural Focus -- Notas culturales highlight Hispanic customs and traditions relevant to the subject matter of the lesson.
Table of contents
- Preface:
- Lección preliminar: Conversaciones breves. Communication: Greetings, farewells, and simple conversations to gather information.
- Lección 1: En el Departamento de Bienestar Social (I).
- Communication: At the Department of Social Welfare: assisting with filling out a form.
- Lección 2: En el Departamento de Bienestar Social (II.)
- Communication: At the Department of Social Welfare: screening people who apply for financial aid.
- Lección 3: En el Departamento de Bienestar Social (III).
- Communication: At the Department of Social Welfare: asking questions about family; helping people apply for welfare.
- Lección 4: En la Oficina del Seguro Social (I).
- Communication: At the Social Security office: processing a new Social Security number; serving applicants for a work permit.
- Lección 5: Una entrevista.
- Communication: At the Department of Social Welfare: interviewing people applying for welfare.
- Lectura 1: SUBSIDIOS ADICIONALES DE ASISTENCIA P�BLICA.
- Repaso (Lecciones 1-5.)
- Lección 6: Al a�o siguiente.
- Communication: At the Department of Social Welfare: reevaluating welfare recipients.
- Lección 7: Estampillas para alimentos.
- Communication: Explaining the food-stamp program.
- Lección 8: En el departamento de Servicios Sociales.
- Communication: Helping someone apply for the food-stamp program.
- Lección 9: El programa de empleo y entrenamiento (I).
- Communication: Explaining a work-and-training program to an unemployed person.
- Lección 10: El programa de empleo y entrenamiento (II).
- Communication: Assisting an unemployed mother improve her chances of finding work.
- Lectura 2: DEPARTMENTO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES DEL ESTADO DE NUEVA YORK.
- Repaso (Lecciones 6-10).
- Lección 11: Medicaid: El programa federal de servicos medicos.
- Communication: Talking to Medicaid applicants: explaining the program.
- Lección 12: Maltrato de un ni�o (I).
- Communication: Investigating child abuse.
- Lección 13: Maltrato de un ni�o (II).
- Communication: Child abuse: talking to abusive parents.
- Lección 14: Ayuda a los ancianos.
- Communication: The elderly: making a house call.
- Lección 15: En las Oficina del Seguro Social (II).
- Communication: Long-term disability: talking to an injured person about rights and obligations; talking about long term disability benefits
- Lectura 3: �NO SE DESQUITE CON SUS HIJOS!
- Repaso (Lecciones 11-15).
- Lección 16: En la oficinia de Medicare (I).
- Communication: Explaining Medicare.
- Lección 17: En la oficinia de Medicare (II).
- Communication: Answering questions about Medicare.
- Lección 18: Resolviendo problemas.
- Communication: Talking about AIDS; talking to the spouse of an alcoholic.
- Lección 19: Consejos a las madres.
- COmmunication: Talking to a new mother; advising parents about child development.
- Lección 20: El ingreso suplementario.
- Communication: Answering questions about supplemental income.
- Lectura 4: Aviso.
- Repaso (Lecciones 16-20).
- Appendix A: Introduction to Spanish Sounds and the Alphabet.
- Appendix B: Verbs.
- Appendix C: Useful classroom expressions.
- Appendix D: Weights and measures.
- Spanish-English vocabulary.
- English-Spanish vocabulary.
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