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Reinforce and progress

Regular practice is the key to maintaining and advancing
your language skills. In this section you will find a variety
of suggestions for reinforcing and extending your Warm up (1minute)
knowledge of Italian. Many involve returning to exercises How do you say “he is”
in the book and using the dictionaries to extend their and “they are”? (pp.14–15)
scope. Go back through the lessons in a different order, Now say “he is not” and
mix and match activities to make up your own 15-minute “they are not.” (pp.14–15)
daily program, or focus on topics that are of particular What is Italian for “my
mother”? (pp.10–11)
relevance to your current needs.

Keep warmed up
I’d like… (3 minutes)
Revisit the Warm Up boxes to remind
Say “I’d like” the following: croissant ❸❸ yourself of key words and phrases.
Make sure you work your way through
❶
❹
❹ sugar ❶ black coffee all of them on a regular basis.
Review and repeat again
Work through a Review and Repeat
lesson as a way of reinforcing words
and phrases presented in the course.
Return to the main lesson for any topic
on which you are no longer confident.
cappuccino❷❷

In conversation: taxi (2 minutes)
Carry on conversing
Reread the In Conversation
panels. Say both parts
of the conversation,
paying attention to the
pronunciation. Where
possible, try incorporating
new words from Al mercato di San Benissimo, signore. Mi lasci qui, per favore.
the dictionary. Lorenzo, per favore. beneesseemoh, seennyoray mee lashee kwee,
al merkatoh dee san per favoray
lorentsoh, per favoray Very well, sir.
Can you drop me
here, please?
Useful phrases (5 minutes)
Learn these phrases and then test yourself using
the cover flap. Practice phrases
The room is too In camera fa troppo Return to the Useful
cold/hot. freddo/caldo. Phrases and Put into
een kamayrah fah Practice exercises.
troppoh freddoh/
kaldoh Test yourself using the
cover flap. When you
There are no towels. Non ci sono gli are confident, devise
asciugamani. your own versions
non chee sonoh lly of the phrases, using
ashugamanee
new words from
the dictionary.
I’d like some soap. Vorrei del sapone.
vorray del saponay

The shower doesn’t La doccia non
work very well. funziona bene.
lah docchah non
funtseeonah benay