ITALIANO 102
ESAME #4
Sig. Cerosaletti
SOMMARIO PER L’ESAME Nº 4
Textbook sections for Exam #4:
Unità 6: B, C, D
WKBK & LAB exercises for Exam #4:
(pp. 220-245)
WORKBOOK: Unità 6: Part 1: Ex’s. E, G, I, J, K, M, O
Paer 2: Ex’s. A, G
LAB:
Unità 6: Ex’s. A-J (all exercises)
Contents for Exam #4:
• vocabulary:
-- sports and sports-related vocabulary (Unità 6: B.1 -- pp220-221)
-- sports match-related vocabulary
(Unità 6: B.1 -- pp220-221)
-- walking-related vocabulary (Unità 6: C.1 -- p229)
-- vacation-related vocabulary (Unità 6: D.1 -- pp235-236)
-- mountain and camping-related vocabulary (Unità 6: D.1 -- pp235-236)
-- sea and beach-related vocabulary (Unità 6: D.1 -- pp235-236)
-- the “In altre parole” expressions
(Unità 6: B--p223, C--p232, D-- p238)
• the present progessive and past progressive constructions in Italian
• the contrasting uses of the Passato prossimo and Imperfetto past tenses, and their use in past-time narration
• the future tense in Italian
• the use of the future tense in Italian for “future of probability”
• the stressed prounoun in Italian (i pronomi tonici)
• cultural material about:
sports in Italian culture (the “Lo sapevi che...?” boxes: pp.220, 222, 223, 226)
the “walk” or “stroll” in Italian life/culture (the “Lo sapevi che...?” box: p.230)
vacations in Italian life and culture (from the lecture in class during the 6.D vocab section)
Ven ice -- its history, sights, life and character (the “Immagini e parole” reading: pp.241-242)
previous topics you still need to be able to handle:
• the passato prossimo past tense, and expressions of past time and expressions for single instances of an action
• the imperfetto past tense, and expressions related to habitual actions and actions in progress
For Exam #4, you should be able to do the following:
1 ) Recall and correctly use vocabulary and grammar concepts you are considered to have studied previously upon entering ITA 102:
gender and plural of nouns; the singular & plural definite and indefinite articles; common -ARE, -ERE and -IRE verbs, and
their conjugations in the present tense; the present tense of the irregular verbs ESSERE, AVERE, ANDARE, VENIRE, USCIRE,
STARE, and DARE; negation of verbs; the expressions c’è and ci sono; adjectives & adjective agreement; the possessive
adjectives; the verb PIACERE and its constructions;
2 ) Recall and correctly use the grammar concepts studied for Exam #1, Exam #2, and Exam #3, in particular:
-- the passato prossimo past tense, and expressions of past time and for single instances of an action
-- ther imperfetto past tense, and expressions related to habitual actions and actions in progress
3 ) Recognize through listening or reading, as well as write the Italian vocabulary studied pertaining to the topics in
Unità #6: Sezioni B, C, & D ;
4 ) Recognize through listening or reading, as well as write the Italian expressions studied from the In altre parole
green boxes in Unità #6: Sezioni B, C, & D ;
5 ) Construct sentences using the PRESENT PROGRESSIVE CONSTRUCTION, to tell what activity a person(s)
is(are) engaged in doing at the present moment;
Construct sentences using the PAST PROGRESSIVE
CONSTRUCTION, to tell what activity a person(s) was(were) engaged in doing at some moment in the past;
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6 ) Recognize and recall common, high-frequency verbs in Italian, and conjugate them in the PRESENT tense, and also
the PASSATO PROSSIMO and IMPERFECT past tenses, to create sentences as well as construct questions;
7 ) Recognize and write the Italian vocabulary for periods of time in the past and for expressions associated with
expressing actions in progress in the past and habitual actions in the past;
8 ) Correctly analyze the directions to write a sentence, or correctly analyze a past-time passage, to identify the particular
past-time focus for each verb, and from there choose the correct past tense in Italian (passato prossimo or imperfetto) ;
9 ) Tell and ask about what things you and others will or will not do in the future;
1 0 ) Recognize and write the Italian vocabulary for periods of time in the future;
1 1 ) Express conjecture about where someone(some persons) is(are) or what someone(some persons) is(are) doing, or
what must be going on, or express that you wonder about something -- using the future tense in Italian to express this
probability or conjecture/speculation;
1 2 ) Recall and correctly use in sentences the Italian stressed pronouns, used instead of direct or indirect object pronouns
when one wants to put emphasis on the object in the sentence, or used following prepositions to refer to a person
previously identified ;
1 3 ) CULTURE:
-- identify facts and information about sports in Italy and Italian culture;
-- identify information about the cultural aspect of the walk or stroll in Italian life and culture;
-- vacations in Italian life and culture;
-- Ven ice -- its history, sights, life and character
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EXAM #4: TYPES OF TEST ITEMS:
• two listening comprehension sections based on audio clips:
--answer questions (either short answer, matching or multiple choice in English) about the content of a conversation
--speculate on the type of place in which the subject(s) must be, or what the subject(s) must be doing, in each of a series of
short conversational exchanges -- write a sentence in Italian stating the probable location or probable activity
(choose from a list of activities and locations in Italian) -- use the future of probability to express conjecture/speculation
• conversational expressions matching:
• vocabulary writing:
• vocabulary matching:
MATCHING:
choose the logical conversational expression in response
to a written statement or question
based on a drawing: write the Italian for specified vocabulary items (e.g.: table setting, pastimes)
choose the correct vocabulary word from a list, based on a definition or an incomplete sentence in Italian
• incomplete sentences:
future tense; present & past progressive; stressed pronouns
-- write in the correct conjugation in the FUTURE tense of the verb that correctly completes the sentence -- choice of infinitives
-- write verbs in Italian in the present progressive construction to complete sentences, to tell what given subjects are or were
in the process of doing, as implied by the context in a dialogue excerpt -- choose from among a list of Italian infinitives
-- write the correct Italian stressed pronouns missing from sentences or lines of dialogue, based on context
• directed sentences:
-- write sentences in Italian, as directed in English, correctly incorporating the passato prossimo
and/or imperfect tenses, as well as vocabulary used with past-time narrative
• incomplete passage: -- write in the missing verbs, conjugated in the correct past tense, passato prossimo or imperfetto
(verb to use specified in English, or choose from among three Italian infinitives)
• culture: short answer, matching and/or multiple choice questions about the culture topics from the corresponding
“Lo sapevi che...?” culture sections in the text, as well as the Unit 6 reading