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      Upgrade Your Italian

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      Upgrade Your Italian book

      ByClelia Boscolo
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2005
      eBook Published 25 February 2005
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203784914
      Pages 192
      eBook ISBN 9780203784914
      Subjects Language & Literature
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      Boscolo, C. (2005). Upgrade Your Italian (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203784914

      ABSTRACT

      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

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |4 pages

      Introduction

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 1: Agreement I – nouns and adjectives

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 2: Describing people

      chapter |8 pages

      Day 3: Relative pronouns

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 4: Leisure, youth culture and music

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 5: Agreement II – molto, troppo and poco; migliore vs. meglio; tutto, ogni, qualche

      chapter |4 pages

      Day 6: Mass media – TV, press and cinema

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 7: Expressions of time

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 8: Literature and visual arts

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 9: Piacere and other impersonal verbs

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 10: Dates and history

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 11: Using the imperfect correctly

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 12: Geography

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 13: Verb constructions – the future of probability

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 14: Using the subjunctive

      chapter |8 pages

      Day 15: Passive sentences

      chapter |10 pages

      Day 16: Rhetorical signposts and logical connectors

      chapter |8 pages

      Day 17: Infinitive vs. gerund

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 18: Politics and current affairs

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 19: Using imperatives and pronouns correctly

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 20: Science and the environment

      chapter |8 pages

      Day 21: Impersonal and passive constructions with si 141

      ByDay 22: Education

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 22: Education

      chapter |8 pages

      Day 23: Conditional sentences

      chapter |8 pages

      Day 24: Dialogue and reported speech

      chapter |8 pages

      Day 25: Modal verbs 171

      ByDay 26: Health

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 26: Health

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 27: Using possessives correctly

      chapter |6 pages

      Day 28: False friends and spelling errors

      chapter |4 pages

      Day 29: Revision: key points

      chapter |4 pages

      Day 30: Revision: vocabulary

      chapter |2 pages

      Progress chart

      chapter |18 pages

      Answers to exercises

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