Dan Shields
Extended Anticipation Guide
Il Passato Prossimo
Part 1: DECIDE
Directions: Consider the reading from Prego (pgs. 101-109) on the passato prossimo (present perfect). Before reading
the text indicate in the DECIDE column if it’s true or false, and support your view in the SUPPORT YOUR VIEW-Decide
box.
DECIDE
True False
X
STATEMENT
The passato prossimo is used
to describe actions in the
recent past or distant past
connected to the present.
RE-EVALUATE
True False
X
Decide
I don’t know
SUPPORT YOUR VIEW
Re-evaluate
The passato prossimo
is used to tell the
audience about things
someone has done.
X
The passato prossimo is
formed with a helping
(auxiliary) verb and a past
participle.
X
Yes the passato
prossimo uses a verb to
work with a past
participle.
From the examples in
the text and online, I
see that the helping
verb and the past
participle (-ato, -uto, ito)
X
The passato prossimo uses
avere or essere as a helping
(auxiliary) verb.
X
The examples Mr.
Shields used in class
show both avere or
essere.
The passato prossimo
uses avere or essere
depending on whether
the verb is transitive
or intransitive.
X
The passato prossimo is
always used by speakers in
Southern Italy to describe the
recent past AND distant past
actions connected to the
present.
X
This makes sense.
The passato prossimo
is always used by
speakers in
NORTHERN Italy to
describe the recent
past AND distant past
actions connected to
the present.
The past participle ALWAYS
agrees in gender and number
with the subject of the verb.
X
Only with the verb
essere does the past
participle agree in
gender & number.
The past participle
ALWAYS agrees in
gender and number
with the subject of the
verb when the
auxiliary verb is
essere.
X
Part 2: EXPLORE WEBSITES WITH A PURPOSE
Directions: Now that you have read the pages in Prego and have indicated your initial thoughts, please complete an
activity online (http://www.quia.com/quiz/928563.html) to help you understand your strengths and weaknesses from
the lesson, then please print out your responses from the Quia website and bring them to class tomorrow.
Dan Shields
Extended Anticipation Guide
Part 3: RE-EVALUATE
Directions: After discussing your results from the Quia website and your reading please go back to the RE-EVALUATE
column and indicate whether after completing the reading and the homework you believe the statement is true or false.
Then, in the SUPPORT YOUR VIEW-RE-EVALUATE box either justify the statement if it is true, or correct the statement if
it is false.