This book aims to provide the teacher, for class work, and the student, for self-study, with a variety of exercises to "train" grammatical knowledge and textual competence of the Italian language.
It is aimed at students at advanced (C1 & C2) levels of the Common European Framework of reference for languages (CEFR) and is useful for familiarisation with some of the methods used in Italian lanuage exams (CILS, CELI, I.T. and PLDA). Students can compare their anwers with those in the appendix and consult the grammatical guide that accompanies the book.
The book is referenced to the CEFR but it also takes into account the need for students to familiarise themselves with the methods used in the CILS, CELI, I.T. and PLIDA Italian language exams, helping them to prepare adequately forthe tests, engaging them in using the language via the textual basis of authentic texts.
Teachers and students choose whether to follow the order in the book presented by the authors or to select those grammatical topics that might appear most relevant for them as they might come across them repeatedly while developing their knowledge of the language.
The book is divided into two parts with exercises that test the student's different skills: communicative, textual, morphosyntactic, lexical and so on.
There are various types of exercises:
- monothematic cloze tests
- polythematic cloze tests
- pure cloze (one word deleted every “x” words)
- analysis of grammatical forms
- rewriting of texts in which some elements are changed
- multiple choice
- interlocking of jokes
- reading comprehension questions
- applying textual coherence and cohesion
- analysis of authentic or spontaneous conversations
Students can compare their answers with those in the appendix and consult, where necessary, the short gammatical guide that accompanies the book.
This book was developed in collaboration with
DILIT INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, Rome.
