Upgrade Your Italian

Clelia Boscolo

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Italian

Hodder & Stoughton
25 February 2005

Language teaching & learning material & coursework; Development studies; Human geography; Languages & ESL; Italian - Advanced Self-Study; Italian - Languages

Series: Upgrade Your...

Aimed at anyone who wants to increase their chance of getting a top grade in Italian exams.

Upgrade your Italian offers a thirty-day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve results.

Spending between 30 minutes and an hour each day with this book in the countdown to an exam will help towards a better grade.

This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for upgrading your exam results:

- Eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen

- Increasing and consolidating your vocabulary

- Improving the style and quality of your Italian

By: Clelia Boscolo
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9780340809662
ISBN 10: 0340809663
Series: Upgrade Your...
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 25 February 2005
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Language: Italian
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Day 1 Basic errors: article/ noun/adjective agreement; agreement with participles used as adjectives. Day 2 Vocabulary: describing people Day 3 Basic errors: relative clauses. Chi vs che, using il che, using il/la cui Day 4 Vocabulary: leisure and youth culture Day 5 Basic errors: agreement with Molto, troppo and poco. Migliore vs meglio. Using tutto, ogni, qualche and un po' Day 6 Vocabulary: the media: television and the press Day 7 Basic errors: time expressions Day 8 Vocabulary: the arts: music, literature, cinema Day 9 Basic errors: piacere and other impersonal verbs Day 10 Vocabulary: history Day 11 Basic errors: past tense; passato prossimo vs imperfetto Day 12 Vocabulary: geography Day 13 Basic errors: using the subjunctive Day 14 Vocabulary: modern Italian society; features and problems Day 15 Basic errors: passive sentences: using venire and andare Day 16 Style: rhetorical signposts Day 17 Basic errors: gerund vs infinitive Day 18 Vocabulary: politics and current affairs Day 19 Basic errors: imperatives and pronouns Day 20 Vocabulary: the environment Day 21 Basic errors: impersonal constructions with si and modal verbs Day 22 Vocabulary: education Day 23 Basic errors: if clauses and conditional expressions Day 24 Style: dialogue and reported speech Day 25 Basic errors: using the past historic and the future of possibility Day 26 Vocabulary: health Day 27 Basic errors: minor points; using possessives and articles + prepositions correctly Day 28 Style: false friends Day 29 Vocabulary: revision Day 30 Basic errors: revision

Clelia Boscolo is Language Tutor and Coordinator of Italian Language Courses at the Department of Italian Studies and at the Centre for Modern Languages, University of Birmingham, UK

Reviews for Upgrade Your Italian

For A-level (or equivalent) students pressed for time this is the best possible aid to revision since it concentrates on identifying the most common basic errors and the most useful vocabularly. It is obvious that it has been written by a first rate teacher who knows all about whetting her students' appetites and then not overfeeding them. The 30 One day-at-a-time chapters were just perfect for me. And I am still learning a lot from this, my constant companion. -- Victor Bleaze A reader from Belfast 20060206