Advanced (CILS TRE)
221 self-paced lessons: Writing with the passato remoto, literary syntax, bureaucratic, academic and business Italian, journalism, nuance with mood and modals, proverbs, shifting register, regional Italian, literature, history through texts, film and theatre, rhetoric and translation.
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The Remote Past: All Persons
Write the regular passato remoto in all six persons for -are, -ere and -ire verbs, including the double forms credei / credetti.
Irregular Remote Past, Part 1 of 2
Write the most frequent irregular passato remoto forms in full: fui, ebbi, feci, dissi, venni, vidi, presi, misi, scrissi.
Irregular Remote Past, Part 2 of 2
Write chiesi, risposi, decisi, conobbi, vissi, nacqui, volli, seppi, ruppi, caddi, tenni and lessi in all persons.
Remote or Recent Past?
Choose between passato remoto and passato prossimo by register, distance from the present and regional habit.
Writing a Narrative
Combine the imperfetto for background with the passato remoto for events, go further back with the trapassato, and pace a written story.
Drill: Remote Past Production
Produce forty regular and irregular verbs in the passato remoto, in all persons, until the forms come without thinking.
Error Hunt: Remote Past
Find and fix the classic passato remoto slips: dicette, vise, venì, ebbimo, the wrong person, and tenses mixed in one story.
Reading Lab: A Short Story
Read an adapted version of Giovanni Verga's story La roba (1880) and follow how the passato remoto drives it.
Real-World Mission: A Family Legend
Plan and write a 250-word family story in the passato remoto, with a background, a chain of events and an ending.
Listening Lab: A Told Story
Follow a story told aloud in the passato remoto, catch the irregular forms at natural speed and retell the key events.
Transformations: Passato Prossimo to Remoto
Rewrite a spoken first-person account as a third-person written narrative: tenses, persons, time words and place words all change.
Unit 1 review: The Remote Past for Writing
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "The Remote Past for Writing", then translate three sentences.
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