Upgrade Your Spanish

Summary:
Upgrade your Spanish is the ideal guide for students wanting a better grade in their Spanish exams. It offers a thirty day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve your results. In the countdown to exams, students should simply spend between 30 minutes to an hour a day with this book, and see their mark go up a grade!

This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for improving your exam results: 1) Eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen; 2) Increasing and consolidating your vocabulary; 3) Moving on from school-book Spanish.

• Highly original and pragmatic approach
• Aimed at the majority of students (B and C grade)
• Short, accessible and user-friendly

Table of Contents:
Agreements
Describing people
Upgrade your style: easy but elegant constructions using the subjunctive
Accents for reasons other that stress rules
Vocabulary: politics
current affairs
Regular verb forms
Vocabulary: the visual arts
Accents for reasons of stress rules
Vocabulary: literature
Ser and estar
Vocabulary: geography (including statistics)
Constructions of time (desde hace etc.)
Style: rhetorical signposts
Vocabulary: history (including dates)
Radical-changing verbs
Vocabulary: music
Verbs with unexpected dependent prepositions
Vocabulary: cinema
Patterns of irregularity in verbs
Vocabulary: education
Conditional sentences
Vocabulary: health
Style: dialogue and reported speech
Spelling changes
Vocabulary: science
Imperatives
Vocabulary: similes
Assorted minor points
Vocabulary: some useful set expressions for discursive writing
Medley of mixed exercises.

Readership:
Undergraduates of Spanish.