Livello Due, lunedi, il cinque novembre, Settima Lezione
Level Two, Monday, November 5, Lesson 7
-Compiti (homework, listed in order of importance)
1. Handout (yellow) - "The partitive..." (and when you don't need to use it), and "Indirect object pronouns". Do both sides. clicca qui for the answers to both sides
2. Practice Set 77. Pronouns: both direct and indirect. Read carefully: some verbs you might not expect (like telefonare) take a + an indirect object in Italian. Read the section, and do the exercises.
3. Handout (green) - "1.Pronto..." (click here to see which handout I'm talking about) These are sentences based on the Caffè Sant'Eustachio dialogue: "...un sacco di tempo...". I would like you to be able to use as many of these phrases as you can. You can memorize them by practicing them out loud.
4. Handout (ivory) - "Vocabolario preliminare..." Read the little dialogue at the top that starts "Ciao, Rita!..." and familiarize yourself with the vocabulary list. Do any of the exercises which interest you, but we might not have time to review them in class. Two weeks from now, we'll be saying what we like to do, using the expression "Mi piace..." (I like...).
5. Practice Set 46: "Quanto and Quale as adjectives". When they are adjectives, they have to agree with the noun. Quale has two forms (quale, quali) and quanto has four forms (quanto, quanta, quante, quanti). Read the section, and do the exercises.
6. Practice Set 57: Prepositions. Di, a, da, in, su. Some are simple prepositions, and some are combined with the article (as we practiced at the end of class: "Do il resto allo studente. Prendo il resto dallo studente.") Read the section, and do the exercises.
7. (optional) Write an original sentence for each of these: appena (just ), già (already), di solito (usually), adesso (now). Già and appena come right after the verb, or between the verb and the past participle. Adesso and di solito can come either immediately following the verb, or at the beginning or at the end of the sentence. See Practice Set 51 for examples.
8. (optional) If you want to refresh your memory on Da quanto tempo...? (How long have you been...?) you could re-do Practice Set 53. It also has practice for tra and fra, with time. Fa (ago) was introduced in Practice Set 83.
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-What we did in class
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-Parole da ricordare:
"Benvenuti negli Stati Uniti" (Did I write "agli" in class? It should be "negli") (Accidenti! Mi faccio un culo cosi!)
- centro commerciale - shopping center
- appena - just
- già - already
- adesso - now
- di solito - usually
- il treno è in anticipo - the train is early
- il treno è in orario - the train is on time
- il treno è in ritardo - the train is late
- Andiamo a trovare i nostri cugini. - We're going to see our cousins.
- Veniamo a trovarvi. - We're coming to see you.
- Pistacchio è il mio preferito. - Pistachio is my favorite.
- Cosa fai? - What are you doing?
- Niente. - Nothing.
- Nulla. - Nothing.
- Firenze è così bella di notte! - Firenze is so pretty at night!
- Non vedo l'ora di andare! - I can't wait 'til it's time to go!
- Sono le sei di mattina. È presto.- It's six in the morning. It's early.
- Sono le undici di notte. È tardi. - It's eleven at night. It's late.
- Prima, faccio colazione. Poi, vado in centro. - First, I eat breakfast. Then, I go downtown.
- Prima di andare in centro, faccio colazione. - Before going downtown, I eat breakfast.
- Che tempo fa? - How's the weather?
- Fa bello! - The weather is beautiful!
- Fa brutto. - The weather is bad.
- Fa cattivo. - The weather is bad.
- Siamo arrivati una settimana fa. - We arrived one week ago.
- Siamo qui da una settimana. - We have been here for one week.
- Siamo qui per una settimana. - We are here for one week.
- Partiamo fra una settimana. (tra una settimana.) - We are leaving in a week.
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- -Using avere or essere as auxiliary verb in passato prossimo:
- Ho finito il libro.
- La lezione è finita.
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- Abbiamo cominciato la lezione.
- Il concerto è cominciato.
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- Non sei andato?
- No, non ho potuto.
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- Ha dovuto lavorare.
- È dovuto partire.
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- You have to memorize the verbs that take essere as their auxiliary.
- Some verbs can take either essere or avere, depending on the sentence.
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- - Alla stazione. Train dialogues and vocabulary.
- Quanto tempo ci vuole? -
- Ci vuole un ora. -
- Ci vogliono due ore. -
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- -Indirect objects. (practice set 77)
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- -Prepositions da and a combined with the definite article. (practice set 57)
- Do il resto allo studente. Prendo il resto dallo studente.