INSIEME/MAZZOLA

This is a content and communication-based interactive text designed for intermediate students of Italian. It combines a streamlined grammar review with readings varying from authentic materials - Italian newspapers and magazines - to short literary pieces and author written texts. The text aims to deal with stimulating and lively problems and issues in Italian society and emphasizes all four skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each chapter begins with a brief, authentic dialogue featuring conversational language that serves as a model for communication and integrated audio and video features offer immediate reinforcement to the learning process that takes place in the classroom. The exercises aim to be creative and natural, each chapter concludes with a writing assignment and there is a selection of readings that deal with different aspects of Italian life and culture.