The Granny and the Heist / La Estanquera de Vallecas (Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics) - 9781786941060

Part comedy, part thriller, part social critique; set in a working class area of Madrid, the play tells the story of Leandro and Tocho, two out of work builders whose plan to rob a tobacconists goes awry due to the refusal of its owner, feisty grandmother Justa, to hand over the money. This edition features Stuart Green's facing page translation, a critical introduction, and an extensive collection of classroom activities to enable secondary school and university teachers to use the play, its translation and other authentic materials to teach a variety of linguistic and grammatical features of Spanish in all four skills areas in language learning.--Page 4 of cover.

• | Author: José Luis Alonso de Santos, Stuart Green
• | Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1786941066
• | ISBN-13: 9781786941060