I like this text book very much. I find myself translating every thing in my every day life into Spanish and watching television in Spanish to help me pick up the language faster. I think the way the author incorporates the Sol y Viento movie into the text book is genius. I'm enjoying the story of Jaime and Maria.
This is my second year teaching from this text. I think it is a great textbook if you are using a communicative oriented approach. The accompanying movie (telenovela ;)) is great, though a bit cheesy at times. The cheese factor just provides more opportunities for conversation. I mean, who doesn't love to see a man picking up a woman while he's sweaty and gross from running?
My textbook for my Elementary Spanish class. Is completely structured around the Spanish-language film "Sol Y Viento." Pretty interesting, for a textbook.