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Clelia Boscolo
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
A member of the
Hodder Headline Group
LONDON
Distributed in the United States
of America by Oxford University
Press Inc., New York
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First published in Great Britain in 2005 by
Hodder Education, a member of the Hodder Headline Group,
338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH
Distributed in the United States of America by
Oxford University Press Inc.,
198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY10016
© Clelia Boscolo 2005
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanically,
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The advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate
at the date of going to press, but neither the author nor the publisher can
accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions.
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ISBN-10: 0 340 80966 3
ISBN-13: 978 0 340 80966 2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Typeset in 10/12 pt Formata by Charon Tec Pvt. Ltd, Chennai, India
Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Bath.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
iv
Introduction
1
Day 1: Agreement I – nouns and adjectives
5
Day 2: Describing people
11
Day 3: Relative pronouns
17
Day 4: Leisure, youth culture and music
25
Day 5: Agreement II – molto, troppo and poco;
migliore vs. meglio; tutto, ogni, qualche
31
Day 6: Mass media – TV, press and cinema
37
Day 7: Expressions of time
41
Day 8: Literature and visual arts
47
Day 9: Piacere and other impersonal verbs
53
Day 10: Dates and history
59
Day 11: Using the imperfect correctly
65
Day 12: Geography
71
Day 13: Verb constructions – the future of probability
77
Day 14: Using the subjunctive
83
Day 15: Passive sentences
89
Day 16: Rhetorical signposts and logical connectors
97
Day 17: Infinitive vs. gerund
107
Day 18: Politics and current affairs
115
Day 19: Using imperatives and pronouns correctly
121
Day 20: Science and the environment
127
Day 21: Impersonal and passive constructions with si
133
Day 22: Education
141
Day 23: Conditional sentences
147
Day 24: Dialogue and reported speech
155
Day 25: Modal verbs
163
Day 26: Health
171
Day 27: Using possessives correctly
177
Day 28: False friends and spelling errors
183
Day 29: Revision: key points
189
Day 30: Revision: vocabulary
193
Progress chart
197
Answers to exercises
199
Bibliography
217
Index
219
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First and foremost I would like to thank Dr Eva Martinez, Arnold’s Commis-
sioning Editor for Modern Languages, for her constant support and patience.
I am also indebted to my students in the Department of Italian Studies at
the University of Birmingham, who have tried the material and have made
many useful suggestions for its improvement; to my colleagues Mr Gerry
Slowey and Miss Alessia Bianchi, who patiently read through each chapter
and corrected many inaccuracies; to Dr Jonathon Dale and to my son,
Edwin, for their time, patience and wizardry on the PC; last, but not least, to
Stephen Harrison, without whose help, support and advice this book would
be a much poorer effort. Needless to say, any remaining inaccuracies or
omissions are entirely my responsibility. I would be grateful to receive com-
ments on the book from colleagues and learners.
I dedicate this book to the memory of my father, Fiorello Boscolo detto
Bragadin, and to my children Edwin and Maddalena.
Clelia Boscolo
e-mail: C.Boscolo@bham.ac.uk
August 2004
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