CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL PRE-U SPANISH

PART 1: TOPICS

LA ARGENTINA DEL SIGLO 21

FILM

FAMILIA RODANTE (15) 2004 ARGENTINA  TRAPERO, PABLO       £19.99

 Comic and charming road movie about four generations of a family.

HISTORIAS MINIMAS (15)  ARGENTINA 2002   SORIN, CARLOS  £19.99        

  Road movie charting the fortunes of three small town heroes pursuing their dreams

LITERATURE

AIRA, CÉSAR:   LA VILLA - OUT OF PRINT

LA MUJER EN EL MUNDO HISPANO

LAS 13 ROSAS 2007 SPAIN LÁZARO, EMILIO MARTÍNEZ  - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD 

 True story of a young women imprisoned charged with helping the rebellion against Franco in the 1940's.

STUDY GUIDE IN SPANISH

LITERATURE

ATXAGA, BERNARDO:  ESOS CIELOS

  On a bus home after four years in jail, a Basque woman terrorist reflects on her past and future.

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT

 Debolsillo.  9788466332361 - £12.95

ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE LONE WOMAN

  Harvill Press.  ISBN: 9781846555602 - £10.99

ESQUIVEL, LAURA:  COMO AGUA POR CHOCOLATE 

  Set in revolutionary Mexico the book is a  comic  fairy tale of  romance, repression, revolution and cooking in the all-female De La Garza family.

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT

 Punto de lectura.  9788466329088 - £12.80

ENGLISH TRANSLATION - LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE

  Black Swan.  ISBN: 9780552995870 - £7.99

MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL SPANISH

 This accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.

 Hodder Education  ISBN: 9781471890109    2017  -  £11.99

OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL SPANISH SET TEXT

  Oxford Literature Companions provide the support needed to get a deeper understanding of the AS/A Level set texts. This guide for Como agua para chocolate is ideal for use in the classroom or for independent revision, providing insight into characters, theme and language,with activities in Spanish that prompt a closer analysis of the text.

  OUP  ISBN: 9780198418375  2018  -  £9.50

ON DVD 

COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE/LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (15) MEXICO 1993 ARAU, ALFONSO     £15.99

 Mexico’s biggest international hit, based on Laura Esquivel’s novel, it’s a  captivating comic fairy tale of  romance, repression, revolution and cooking.

EL CINE DE PEDRO ALMODÓVAR

JULIETA (15) 2016 SPAIN  ALMODÓVAR,  PEDRO DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY  - £27.99 

 Told over 30 years and based on Alice Munro's short stories 'Chance', 'Soon' and 'Silence.  Recently bereaved, 55 year old teacher, Julieta, writes a long letter to her estranged daughter Antía, explaining the secrets she has kept from her and then sets out to mend their fractured relationship.

TODO SOBRE MI MADRE/ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (15) 1999 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99

  On the death of her son a single mother goes to find the boys father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he had a child Level: AS, A2 Subject: Spanish, Women, Gender, Film Studies, Media Studies, PSHE & Citizenship

SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES

VOLVER (15) 2006 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99

  After her death, a mother returns as a ghost, to fix a family situations she couldn’t resolve during her life.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES

ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES

SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE WRITTEN BY CARMEN HERRERO

MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: VOLVER : FILM STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL SPANISH

 Scene, character and theme in Volver, this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the film and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.

 Hodder Education  ISBN: 9781471891786  2017  -  £11.99

AMÉRICA LATINA: JUSTICIA Y OPRESIÓN

FILM

DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA /MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (15) 2004 ARGENTINA    SALLES,W/THOMAS D DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £19.99

  Based on the journals of  Ché Guevara, this coming-of-age road movie follows the adventures of the young medical student  Ché (Gael García Bernal) and his friend Alberto Granada (Rodrigo de la Serna) as they cross South America on motorbikes in the early 1950s, on their way to take up their medical residency at a leper colony in Peru.

 

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES

SPANISH LANGUAGE WORKSHEET

 

ENGLISH NOTES

TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA/EVEN THE RAIN (15) 2012 SPAIN BOLLAÍN, ICIAR £14.99 

  Spanish actress, writer and director Icíar Bollaín directs this political docu-drama about an international film crew that arrives in rural Bolivia to make a film about Christopher Columbus. However, director Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his crew find their project under threat when violent demonstrations break out locally against the corporate ownership of the area's water rights. The film uses a dual storyline to draw parallels between issues of wealth, ownership and political power both 500 years ago, when Spain first conquered the New World, and today, when corporate giants use their money and power to ride roughshod over the rights of indigenous people.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES

SPANISH LANGUAGE WORKSHEET

SPANISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT

LITERATURE

NERUDA, PABLO:  CANTO GENERAL

[From Canto General:

II, poem XII, Sube a nacer conmigo, hermano

III, poem I, Vienen por las islas

IV, poem II, Bartolomé de las Casas

V, section II, La United Fruit Company Ltd

VIII, poem XVII, La tierra se llama Juan

XIII, poem XIII, Reciben órdenes contra Chile

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT- 

 Austral nuevo formato ISBN: 9788432248160 - £12.95

FROM MEMORIAL DE ISLA NEGRA: INJUSTICIA]

BILINGUAL EDITION SPANISH - ENGLISH  TEXT- 

 Souvenir Press Ltd ISBN: 9780285649132 - £14.99

SERRAT Y SABINA EN LA CULTURA HISPANA

FILM

SERRAT Y SABINA: EL SÍMBOLO Y EL CUATE  2013  RELEA, FRANCESC - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD

LITERATURE

DOS PAJAROS DE UN TIRO (DVD/CD) - NOT AVAILABLE AT PRESENT 

  lyrics to selected tracks as follows: Algo personal; Y sin embargo; ¿Quién me ha robado el mes de abril?; Princesa; Contigo; Tu nombre me sabe a yerba; Ruido; 19 Días y 500 noches; Penélope; Cantares; Pastillas para no soñar; Para la libertad; Pueblo blanco; Mediterráneo; Fiesta; Y nos dieron las 10

LUIS GARCÍA GIL, SERRAT Y SABINA: A VISTA DE PÁJARO

Pages 28–31 (Amor), 33 (Andalucía), 47 (Barcelona), 59–61 (Buenos

Aires), 69–71 (Cafés), 92-3 (Cohen), 123–4 (Drogas), 127–9 (Dylan),

133–6 (Exilio), 176-9 (Izquierda), 189-90 (Machado), 192–5 (Madrid),

206 (Marcos), 209–10 (Mediterráneo), 212–21 (México), 228–31

(Mujeres), 263–5 (Patria), 310–1 (Ruido), 359 (Y nos dieron las diez).

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT

  T&B Editores  ISBN:  9788415405337  - £29.99

PART 2: TEXTS

ANÓNIMO:  LA VIDA DE LAZARILLO DE TORMES

  Picaresque novel in which poor Lázaro is taken on as an apprentice for a blind beggar.

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT

  Clásicos Castalia ISBN: 9788497404211  - £10.95

BORGES, JORGE LUIS:  SELECTED SHORT STORIES

[La muerte y la brújula, El jardín de los senderos que se

bifurcan, La forma de la espada, El milagro secreto, El encuentro,

El sur]

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT- BORGES, JORGE LUIS:  FICCIONES

 Debolsillo ISBN: 9788499089508 - £11.95

ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FICTIONS

 Penguin Books.  ISBN: 9780141183848 - £8.99 

CERCAS, JAVIER:  LOS SOLDADOS DE SALAMINA  

 Escaped writer and fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas is confronted by an unknown soldier who turns and walks away. Who was the  soldier who chose not to shoot, why did he spare him? And might he still be alive?

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT- 

 Tusquets Editores ISBN: 9788483101612 - £13.95

ENGLISH TRANSLATION - SOLDIERS OF SALAMIS

 Bloomsbury isbn: 9780747568230 - £8.99 

GAITE, CARMEN MARTÍN:  LAS ATADURAS (SHORT STORY), IN THE COLLECTION LAS ATADURAS

  SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT

    Ediciones Siruela S.A. ISBN: 9788498415155  - £17.95

HERNÁNDEZ, MIGUEL:  ANTOLOGÍA POÉTICA   (2020 ONLY)

Selected poems - [El rayo que no cesa (pages 157–85), Vientos del pueblo

(pages 201–28), Cancionero y romancero de ausencias (pages 251–72)

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT

    Castalia didacticaISBN: 9788497403818  - £13.95

LORCA, FEDERICO GARCIA:  BODAS DE SANGRE 

  Play is set in a village community in Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn together in the face of an arranged marriage.

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT

  Cátedra  ISBN: 9788437605609  - £11.95

ENGLISH TRANSLATION - BLOOD WEDDING

 Methuen   ISBN:  9780713685169  - £9.99

DVD - BODAS DE SANGRE/BLOOD WEDDING  (U) 1981 SPAIN SUARA, CARLOS £15.99

    Antonio Gades and his troupe rehearse and perform a flamenco ballet version of Lorca's tragedy of outraged honour and revenge. Filmed in a bare day-lit studio, director Carlos Saura concentrates on the gestures, ceremony and conventions in the ballet itself injecting the story with dramatic and cinematic passion.

LLOSA, MARIO VARGAS: LA TÍA JULIA Y EL ESCRIBIDOR

  Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee.

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT

  Debolsillo  ISBN: 9788490625675  - £14.95

ENGLISH TRANSLATION - AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER

  Faber & Faber   ISBN:   9780571288601 - £8.99

ON DVD

TUNE IN TOMORROW(15)USA 1990 AMIEL, J CAN BE PLAYED IN SPANISH.  £12.99 

 Based on Mario Vargas Llosa  book Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter 

MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCÍA:  DEL AMOR Y OTROS DEMONIOS

 A town consumed by superstition blames a young girl for their woes.  It is up to a young Priest to change the townsfolk’s  perception of the girl.

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT

  Debolsillo ISBN: 9788497592420  - £11.95

ENGLISH TRANSLATION - OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS

  Penguin Books   ISBN:  9780241968741  - £8.99

VALLEJO: SELECTED POEMS (BCP SPANISH TEXTS)  (2021 ONLY)

Los heraldos negros (pages 1–14),  Trilce (pages 15–34) & Poemas en prosa (pages 35–41)

SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT

     Bloomsbury ISBN: 9781853995941  - £16.95

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