Better Reading Italian

by Daniela Gobetti

Overview

Sharpen your Italian language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and culture

Better Reading Italian offers you entertaining, "real world" texts to help you understand and learn more Italian vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history. Along the way, you will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. The articles become gradually more difficult as you proceed through the book to keep you challenged and engaged.

Better Reading Italian is an easy, engaging way to boost your language skills and learn more about the language and its speakers as you go.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071770330
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	12/05/2011
Series:	Better Reading Series
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Daniela Gobetti is the assistant director of the Office of International Programs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Better Reading Italian and Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Vocabulary.

Table of Contents

Preface
How to use this book
Il bel paese
Torino
Il Touring Club Italiano
Trieste (I)
Trieste (II)
L’agriturismo
Slow food
L’Arcigola
Il mangiarbene
Il buon vino fa buon sangue
I vini di origine controllata
La scienza in cocina e l’arte di mangiar bene
La moda e il design
Kartell
Tensione e compressione
Io speriamo che me la cavo
Ville, villette, villone
La moda italiana
Costume e società
Il male di vivere
La moda maschile
Il problema demografico
Il calcio
La beatificazione
La scuola
Cuore
La maturità
La matematica in rima
La gatta
Lessico famigliare
Una città famigliare
Lessico famigliare
Famiglia cristiana
Va’ dove ti porta il cuore
Sebben che siamo donne
La Lega
Mamma
Donna in guerra
Le donne e la politica
Il femminismo
La comunicazione, la musica e i giovani
Social media, empatia ed entropia: Prima parte
Social media, empatia ed entropia: Seconda parte
Ottantaedintorni
Navigating the Web in Italian
Instructions for downloading bonus reading material
Answer key
Footnotes
Chapter 4