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ĄTe toca! is... 
ˇ provocative, in that its simulations are designed to encourage impassioned argument
ˇ incomplete, in that its simulations' plots are effectively 'completed' by students in the classroom and are therefore always different
ˇ unorthodox, in that it privileges an advisory role for the teacher, who acts as facilitator, provider of feedback and perhaps even personaje, over the more traditional, and more hierarchical, role of the teacher as information provider. 

ĄTe toca! is not...

ˇ a reference grammar. Other books, such as Butt & Benjamin's A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish and its companion volume of exercises Pountain & de Carlos Practising Spanish Grammar, to which this book is cross-referenced, already fulfil this function. 
ˇ full of wholly convincing, comprehensive and 'watertight' plots. A simulation's 'plot' need only convince sufficiently to involve students in the debate. Moreover, experience has shown that a certain outlandishness in both characters and plot actually serves further to 'authorize' active student engagement in what is effectively an unscripted piece of theatre. 
ˇ politically correct, in that it sets out to provoke argument.

The authors nevertheless wish to stress most vigorously that the views held by characters and perhaps implied in some of the simulations are not in any way representative of their own.

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