A brand new Italian series for beginner students in Years 7-10. Level 1 is intended for Years 7-8 and Level 2 for Years 9-10 Written to meet the full requirements of the Australian Curriculum: Languages Italian, Parliamo Italiano Insieme is the ideal course to support you and your students with transition to the new curriculum Combining a well-paced approach with a focus on intercultural skills, your students will be able to improve their language skills with confidence while developing their intercultural competance A full suite of engaging print and digital resources including fun interactive activities for language practice and audio material by Italian native speakers.

Parliamo Italiano Insieme is a brand new Italian series for beginner students in Years 7-10. Level 1 is intended for Years 7-8 and Level 2 for Years 9-10. This series is written to meet the full requirements of the Australian Curriculum: Languages Italian and is the ideal course to support you and your students with transition to the new curriculum. Combining a well-paced approach with a focus on intercultural skills, your students will be able to build their language skills with confidence while developing their intercultural competence. The series provides a full suite of engaging print and digital resources including fun interactive activities for language practice and audio material by Italian native speakers. *Complimentary access to NelsonNet is available to teachers who use the accompanying student book and workbook as a core resource in their classroom. Contact your education consultant for access codes and conditions.

The Ecco! series treats student motivation, engagement and enjoyment as vital for successful learning. Teachers will also value the imaginative approaches, cultural authenticity, updated educational principles, logical sequencing, ease of use and practical support of the Ecco! series. The Ecco! series is devised for the first four years of secondary school. Ecco! uno is intended for three semesters' to two years' work. Ecco! due is more advanced and is intended for two years' work.Features: The Ecco! due Student's Work Kit contains: 1 copy of Ecco! due Workbook; 1 copy of Ecco! due Student CD-ROM. Workbook features: checklists for students' active self-assessment of chapter learning outcomes; exercises to help students master new vocabulary through inductive reasoning; varied listening comprehension tasks using lively performances by native speakers on the Ecco! due Teacher Audio CDs; a wide range of appealing reading comprehension, grammar practice and text-type writing activities; targeted cultural awareness revision and ICT activities; extensions tasks for further challenge. Student CD-ROM features: cartoon stories replay for listening, reading and speaking practice; applied pronunciation practice of key sounds (students record own voice); vocabulary games to reinforce knowledge of new words and phrases; different text-type writing tasks with templates provided; varied activities to extend cultural knowledge; chapter review quizzes for revision of grammar, vocabulary and cultural knowledge; record keeping.

Sharpen your ITALIAN grammar with skill-building exercises If you want to be proficient in Italian, you have to master its grammar. The best way to perfect your grammar skills is through drills, drills, and more drills. Covering all facets of Italian grammar--from prepositions and pronouns to verbal forms and tenses--Italian Grammar Drills helps you learn often-perplexing topics through hands-on experience. This comprehensive book features: More than 200 exercises that demonstrate how the Italian grammar system works Authentic examples that illustrate correct grammar usage A thorough review section, new to this edition An answer key to give you immediate clarification on any concept Topics include: Adjectives and adverbs * Comparatives and superlatives * Present tense versus past tense * Prepositions * Passive voice * Verbal expressions and constructions * and more

'Basic Italian' provides readers with the basic tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations. The book contains 23 individual grammar points in lively and realistic contexts.

In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers—“The Colored Mario”—all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur Puff Daddy dubbing himself “the Black Sinatra,” the affinity between black and Italian cultures runs deep and wide. Once you start looking, you’ll find these connections everywhere. Sinatra croons bel canto over the limousine swing of the Count Basie band. Snoop Dogg deftly tosses off the line “I’m Lucky Luciano ’bout to sing soprano.” Like the Brooklyn pizzeria and candy store in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, or the basketball sidelines where Italian American coaches Rick Pitino and John Calipari mix it up with their African American players, black/Italian connections are a thing to behold—and to investigate. In Flavor and Soul, John Gennari spotlights this affinity, calling it “the edge”—now smooth, sometimes serrated—between Italian American and African American culture. He argues that the edge is a space of mutual emulation and suspicion, a joyous cultural meeting sometimes darkened by violent collision. Through studies of music and sound, film and media, sports and foodways, Gennari shows how an Afro-Italian sensibility has nourished and vitalized American culture writ large, even as Italian Americans and African Americans have fought each other for urban space, recognition of overlapping histories of suffering and exclusion, and political and personal rispetto. Thus, Flavor and Soul is a cultural contact zone—a piazza where people express deep feelings of joy and pleasure, wariness and distrust, amity and enmity. And it is only at such cultural edges, Gennari argues, that America can come to truly understand its racial and ethnic dynamics.

Designed around the principles of intercultural language learning, such as noticing, making connections, reflecting and interacting, the student book provides ample opportunities for students to develop intercultural competence while learning a new language.