Ingles Hecho Facil = English Made Easy

by Patrice J. Duncan

Book Overview

With an easy-to-grasp approach and user-friendly style, this newest offering in the Made Simple series includes directions and explanations that are completely bilingual, making this book easy for native Spanish speakers' use and reference. Where appropriate, the lessons have been adapted to teach English in the context of American culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385481861
• ISBN13: 9780385481861
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Use it for every class

I have used this workbook for two years to teach English to my adult neighbors here in Panama. The book uses modern life concepts to teach relevant business and daily life English. It is easy to use and does not get bogged down in arcane grammarian discussions. We have plenty of material to discuss after each dialog and we use the exercises as practice and for review. It suits us well. I will continue to use it for any student that has a smattering of English and little language structure.

ingles hecho facil

This book is great if you are teaching english to non-speakers, the pronounciation is there, the translation, easy words, all the basics for starters. Pronouns, verbs, adverbs all easy grammatical sentences with explanations for the use and most of the rules for changing the endings for plurals, explains the masculine and femine use of words as well. I teach adults the english language and have bought this book to help me help them and as it turns out the students have liked it so much I have had to keep reordering for them to have one of their own.

It's the best there is! (El mejor!)

In my opinion this is the best book available for Hispanics who want to learn English. I myself speak both English and Spanish and have taught English to Hispanics for 5-1/2 years. I am also a professional librarian. I have looked through large library ESL and Spanish/English language collections and have spent many hours at big-name bookstores looking for materials for my students. Nothing I saw is comparable to Inglés Hecho Fácil. Naturally it's hard for me to say how helpful this book might be for a tutor who doesn't know Spanish, but I think it would be worthwhile trying to use it, if all your students are Spanish-speakers. It's in an entirely different class from all the other Spanish/English instructional materials I've ever seen. In fact, as far as I can tell, it's the only real Spanish/English text available in the US. (If you know of another, I'd love to hear about it!) I understand the difficulty of the reviewer who criticized the indexing, and I grant that it's not easy to pick things out at a glance, but in fact, the Table of Contents does give a pretty thorough view of what is being presented. You just have to comb through it. For myself, after going through the book for so many years, I appreciate more and more the skill with which the material is developed. I also want to add that I agree with all of the positive points enumerated by an earlier reviewer, H.Zheng. Qué lo aprovechen bien, amigos!

Most useful book for ESL both in the US and Latin America

I bought my first copy of Englis Hecho Facil because I work with Latinos, and each of them found it so fascinating I gave them the book and went out and bought another. This happened about six times, until I finally told them where they could buy their own copy. They have made great progress with their English and continue to ask me questions. This book comes highly recommended by Latinos. I visit Guatemala for 2 months each year and take my book with me.

Valuable help to teach English

I have used this book for over a year to teach ESL to a Spanish speaking person and find that the lessons are organized and cover all parts of the English language. The vocabulary words, for the most part, are words used in everyday life. Each of my students has bought other copies for friends and family.