Piero Garofalo, Daniela Selisca, "Ciak… si parla italiano – Cinema for italian conversation"

Piero Garofalo, Daniela Selisca, “Ciak… si parla italiano – Cinema for italian conversation”
Publisher: Focus | 2005 | ISBN: 1585100943 | English/Italian | PDF | 290 pages | 117 Mb

‘Ciak… si parla italiano’ is a text designed specifically for courses in Italian conversation that focus on cinema as the context for discussion. This text covers sixteen films ranging from 1960-2003, and covering a broad range of genres including comedy, drama, science fiction, and historical.

Exercises include vocabulary building, character analysis, narrative comprehension, scene analysis, advanced grammar, imaginary interviews, creative script writing, further research suggestions, and poetry analysis.

Each film chapter includes readings that are varied and augment the film screenings and class discussions. There are five types of readings: background information on the director and film, cultural explications, scene transcriptions, director’s comments, and poetry. While the first two serve to orient and contextualize the films for the students, the transcriptions allows for a more detailed linguistic analysis of a particular scene. The director’s comments provide an insightful interpretation to stimulate discussion. The poetry readings were inspired by filmic references and inspire students to expand their insights beyond the specific film.

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Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Conversation

Jean Yates, “Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Conversation”

ISBN: 0071741100 | 2011 | EPUB | 192 pages | 11 MB

Practice the Art of Conversation in Spanish!

Want to strike up a conversation with a native Spanish speaker but nervous that you re not ready? This book helps you overcome that obstacle and before you know it, you ll be speaking comfortably in your new native language.

Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Conversation” is organized around twelve units that present realistic conversational situations, from making introductions to giving opinions and from making a date to telling a story. Using these engaging dialogues as a starting point, each unit is packed with helpful instruction on correct pronunciation, syntax, and word usage–in addition to lots of conversation-ready phrases that you will find indispensable as your fluency increases.

You will, of course, get plenty of practice, practice, practice using your new skills in conversation. Each dialogue is followed by a variety of exercises that not only give you the opportunity to put new concepts into action but also encourage you to construct personalized conversations. These lessons will reassure even the most grammar-phobic learners that they too can achieve a confident–and spontaneous–speaking style.

“Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Conversation” will help you: Engage in dialogues that illustrate practical conversations Expand your vocabulary Get clarification of new concepts with numerous realistic examples Reinforce your new conversational skills through extensive exercises

Before you know it, you ll find yourself confidently speaking Spanish with your Spanish-speaking friends–or ready to make new ones!”

Upstairs at the Strand: Writers in Conversation at the Legendary Bookstore

Upstairs at the Strand: Writers in Conversation at the Legendary Bookstore by Jessica Strand, Andrea Aguilar
2016 | ISBN: 0393352080 | English | 224 pages | EPUB | 0.7 MB

Revelatory conversations between renowned writers at New York City’s legendary bookstore.

For nearly ninety years, the Strand Book Store has been a New York institution, a legendary mecca for readers throughout the five boroughs, across the country, and around the world. Featuring freewheeling and behind-the-scenes conversations between renowned novelists, playwrights, and poets on how they work, think, and live, Upstairs at the Strand captures the happy collision of books and ideas in the Strand’s famed reading series in its Rare Book Room.

Upstairs at the Strand is indispensable for aspiring writers, readers of contemporary literature, and devoted fans of the 18 Miles of Books at the Strand Book Store.

Contributors include: Renata Adler • Edward Albee • Hilton Als • Paul Auster • Blake Bailey • Alison Bechdel • Tina Chang • Junot Díaz • Deborah Eisenberg • Rivka Galchen • A. M. Holmes • Hari Kunzru • Rachel Kushner • Wendy Lesser • D. T. Max • Leigh Newman • Téa Obreht • Robert Pinsky • Katie Roiphe • George Saunders • David Shields • Charles Simic • Tracy K. Smith • Mark Strand • and Charles Wright.