Summary:
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

• Highly original and pragmatic approach
• Aimed at C and B grade students (i.e. the majority)
• Short, accessible and user-friendly

Table of 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

About the Author(s):
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

Readership:
A-level students and 1st year undergraduates

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