This synopsis refers to the book + CD pack.
Teach Yourself Improve your Italian is the ideal way to extend your language skills if you already have some knowledge of Italian. Whether you ve completed Teach Yourself Italian or any other beginners Italian course, either by yourself or at evening class, you will find this the perfect course for building on your existing knowledge and improving your spoken and written language.
The book covers a wide range of topics of the sort you will want to talk about when in Italy and teaches you the kind of everyday language and features of speech that will enable you to communicate with confidence and feel comfortable taking part in conversation with native speakers of Italian. The choice of material aims to give you something of the flavour of Italy today and each unit is based around a single theme with lively interviews and conversations on the accompanying recording. The units are divided up into sessions manageable chunks that will help you to organize your learning and there are tips on language learning throughout. There are activities based on the interviews and texts to help you remember what you ve learnt and put your knowledge into practice.
The accompanying double CD provides approximately 2 hours of listening material. The CDs (0 340 87069 9) and book (0 340 87067 2) can also be purchased separately.
How to use this course: Leute, Leute; mein tagesablauf; ausbuilding oder
stadium?; aus der Arbeitswelt; interessieren Sie sich fur Kultur?; und wie
ist eine reise wert; typisch deutsch?; was tun Sie fur die Umwelt?;
Deutschland heute; self-assessment tests; transcripts; key to the exercises;
list of common irregular verbs; German-English vocabulary; English-German
vocabulary; taking it further.
Sylvia Lymbery has over 25 years' experience of teaching Italian in England and also Italy, where she lived for several years.
