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Italian Through Film: A Text for Italian Courses
Antonello Borra
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Description for Italian Through Film: A Text for Italian Courses
Paperback. Focusing on contemporary Italian films, this book offers Italian-language teachers an opportunity to incorporate authentic language in their classrooms. The book is adaptable for any level of language instruction and devotes one chapter to each of ten entertaining movies. Series: Yale Language Series. Num Pages: 142 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APF; CJBV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 246.
This supplementary text for elementary to intermediate courses in Italian is structured around stimulating discussions of ten contemporary Italian films, among them Cinema Paradiso, La vita e bella, Mediterraneo, and Il postino. With a chapter devoted to each movie, the book effectively fosters a deeper understanding of both Italian language and culture, and it is adaptable for any level of language instruction.
Italian Through Film features:
This supplementary text for elementary to intermediate courses in Italian is structured around stimulating discussions of ten contemporary Italian films, among them Cinema Paradiso, La vita e bella, Mediterraneo, and Il postino. With a chapter devoted to each movie, the book effectively fosters a deeper understanding of both Italian language and culture, and it is adaptable for any level of language instruction.
Italian Through Film features:
- Films that are easily available from school video libraries or from video stores;
- Pre-viewing, viewing, and post-viewing activities appropriate to the various films in each chapter;
- Grammar review, vocabulary in context, listening comprehension, cultural and ... Read more
- Exercises ranging in difficulty from elementary to highly sophisticated that are designed to enhance students’ vocabulary and cultural awareness as well as oral and written skills;
- Boxed sections that provide information about the movie, director, plot, and certain cultural aspects specific to each movie;
- Lists of Internet-based activities that expand aspects of each movie by exploring Italian websites.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Series
Yale Language Series
Number of Pages
142
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300100204
SKU
V9780300100204
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99-50
About Antonello Borra
Antonello Borra is assistant professor of Italian at the University of Vermont. Cristina Pausini is visiting assistant professor at Wellesley College.
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