Full Description
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
Contents
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
