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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 Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext Do you want to increase your chances of getting a top grade in your Italian exams? Upgrade Your Italian offers a carefully structured approach that is guaranteed to bring results. 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 included in direct mailing piece to lecturers and teachers of Italian - spring 2004 Zusammenfassung Do you want to increase your chances of getting a top grade in your Italian exams? Upgrade Your Italian offers a carefully structured approach that is guaranteed to bring results. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
