The new edition has the following features to help teachers and students achieve success: an up-to-date communicative approach; clearly-stated lesson objectives; plenty of activities and exercises for vocabulary and grammar; practice for the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking; authentic situations so language is learned in a Latin American context; checklists to mirror progress; exercises for accurate pronunciation; and encouragement of autonomous learning and assessment. Zena Moore is an experienced teacher of Spanish at all levels in secondary schools in Trinidad and Tobago.