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Informed by second-language acquisition research and supported by cutting-edge digital tools, the complete Avanti! program creates a dynamic learning environment that fosters communication and motivates students to succeed. With Connect and LearnSmart, Avanti's learning platform gives instructors maximum flexibility to structure the learning experience inside and outside the classroom. Avanti! is known for its focus on the most critical language for communication, its active presentation of vocabulary and grammar, systematic review and recycling, and inclusion of real-world culture. With Avanti!, students not only learn Italian- they develop a deep appreciation for Italian culture. The Avanti! program is built around the following principles: Focused Approach / Flexible Content: Avanti! responds to instructors’ concerns that most programs attempt to cover too much material in the first year. Informed by second-language acquisition research, this introductory course reflects a reasonable expectation for the amount of material that most beginning learners can acquire in one year of classroom instruction. The Strutture sections include the core structures that are necessary for meaningful communication at the elementary level. Additional structures are either presented “for recognition only” or appear in Per saperne di piu with associatedinductive presentations and activities in Connect, giving instructors maximum flexibility to teach the grammar they want to teach. The Connect platform includes an assignment builder feature that allows instructors to fully customize the course content to meet the needs of their particular students. Instructors may choose to assign all or some of the textbook and workbook activities as well as some or all of the grammar points presented in Per saperne di più, based on their course goals and the course delivery method: face-to-face, hybrid, or online. A major highlight of the fourth edition is the addition of 25 engaging Grammar Tutorial Videos that present key grammar points with related practice activities. Communicative Competence: Avanti!satisfies students’ desire to communicate in everyday situations from the very beginning through a guided and gradual process of acquisition. In the Strategie di comunicazione videos that open each chapter, students see and hear Italians of all ages and backgrounds using high-frequency, practical expressions that students can immediately begin using. The Lessico sections have been revised to include the most up-to-date high-frequency vocabulary in use today. The Strutture sections guide students from working with Italian at the word- and sentence-level until they arrive at the final section of each chapter, Cultura, where they engage in listening, reading, writing, and speaking activities at the discourse level. Outside of class, Connect provides voice tools such as Blackboard Instant Messaging for partnered speaking practice and the Voice Board for posting voice recordings to an asynchronous voicemail thread. With Avanti! students are always well supported in their practice inside and outside of the classroom, building their communicative competence and their confidence. Cultural Competence: Avanti! provides a meaningful and extensive exploration of Italy’s rich and unique culture. In addition to the Strategie di comunicazione videos and the Grammatica dal vivo videos that feature contemporary language as it is spoken today, the Il blog di… videos showcase four different regions of Italy. Brief readings and interactive cultural activities also promote an understanding of cultural products, practices, and perspectives throughout the program. All chapters end with reading, listening, speaking and writing activities that explore cultural topics in furtherdepth. New to the fourth edition is a feature called Scopriamo le belle arti! Based on the fine art chapter opener, the Lingua e Arte activities integrate both language review and art appreciation. Finally, each chapter now alternates between film and song activities, newly titled Scopriamo il cinema! and Scopriamo la musica! Recycling vocabulary and structures for maximum exposure is a key feature of Avanti. Every fourth chapter provides practice of four previously taught grammar points, which are then followed by a related topic. Chapter 16 contains only review grammar sections, providing students with additional practicewith challenging structures. The Lingua e Arte activities that close each chapter integrate both language review and culture. With LearnSmart, our adaptive learning tool, students can practice key vocabulary and grammatical points outside of class. This proven systemhelps students identify what they don’t know and provides them with the optimal learning path to help them learn those concepts. LearnSmart also identifies the concepts students are most likely to forget and encourages periodic review to ensure that they retain what they have learned. In the fourth edition, LearnSmart now includes modules for all the grammar and vocabulary covered in Avanti, including updated high-frequency vocabulary. By assigning both Connect activities and the LearnSmart vocabulary and grammar modules, instructors can ensure that students are optimally prepared for in-class communication.
Avanti 4e Table of Contents
Capitolo 1 Per cominciare
Strategie di comunicazione
Greeting someone
Finding out someone’s name
Finding out where someone is from
Saying good-bye
Expressing likes and dislikes
Lessico
Alphabet and pronunciation
Days of the week
Months and seasons
Numbers from 0 to 9,999
Strutture
Gender
Indefinite articles
Number
Definite articles
The verb piacere [s/b bf]
Cultura
Italian gestures
Famous Italians
Per saperne di più
Gender
Number
Capitolo 2 Com’è?
Strategie di comunicazione
Asking how someone is
Asking someone’s nationality
Lessico
Describing people, places, and things
Strutture
Adjectives
The verbs essere (to be) and avere (to have)
There is / There are
Possessive adjectives
Cultura
Origins of Italian last names
Per saperne di più
Irregular plural adjectives
The demonstrative pronouns questo and quello
Other adjectives that precede the noun
The verbs essere (to be) and avere (to have)
Capitolo 3 Cosa ti piace fare?
Strategie di comunicazione
Getting someone’s attention; Asking and telling time
Asking when events occur
Saying what you like to do in your free time
Lessico
Talking about your daily activities
Strutture
The infinitive of the verb
The present indicative of regular verbs
Verbs with spelling and/or pronunciation changes
Irregular verbs
Cultura
Italian schedules
Per saperne di più
The verbs rimanere (to remain) and scegliere (to choose)
Capitolo 4 Che bella famiglia!
Strategie di comunicazione
Review
Meeting people and finding out what they do for a living
Commenting on things and complimenting people
Lessico
Talking about your family
Strutture
Review
Possessive adjectives
Possessives with family members
Interrogatives
The interrogatives quanto (how much) and quale (which)
The present indicative
More irregular verbs
Adjectives
The comparative
Cultura
The Italian Family
Emiliano’s blog: Rome
Per saperne di più
Suffixes
Comparatives of inequality with che
Comparatives of equality
Capitolo 5 A tavola!
Strategie di comunicazione
Inviting someone to do something
Declining an invitation and making excuses
Lessico
Restaurant terms and items on an Italian menu
Strutture
The superlative
Verb + infinitive
Prepositions
The partitive
Cultura
Italian table manners and food
Per saperne di più
The preposition da
The pronoun ci
Capitolo 6 I vestiti e la moda
Strategie di comunicazione
Making polite requests
Asking permission
Lessico
Describing your clothes
Strutture
Direct and indirect objects
Present progressive
Reflexive verbs
Adverbs
Cultura
Italian fashion and clothing
Per saperne di più
Molto and poco
Buono/cattivo versus bene/male
Capitolo 7 Cosa hai fatto questo weekend?
Strategie di comunicazione
Expressing surprise, pain, and so on
Asking what happened
Lessico
Talking about your weekend activities
Strutture
The present perfect of regular verbs
The present perfect of irregular verbs
Negative expressions
Cultura
Italian music
Per saperne di più
The present perfect: piacere
Other negative expressions
Capitolo 8 Che bella festa!
Strategie di comunicazione
Review
Asking for information
Expressing good wishes
Lessico
Talking about Italian and American holiday celebrations
Strutture
Review
Reflexive verbs
Reciprocal verbs
The present perfect
The present perfect of reflexive and reciprocal verbs
Definite and indefinite articles
The use of definite and indefinite articles
Prepositions
The prepositions in and a
Cultura
Italian holidays and festivals
Luca’s blog: Bologna
Per saperne di più
The present perfect of dovere, potere, and volere
The pronoun ne
Capitolo 9 La scuola e i giovani
Strategie di comunicazione
Finding out someone’s future plans
Describing how things used to be
Lessico
Talking about education and professions
Strutture
The imperfect
The imperfect versus the present perfect
The past progressive
Cultura
Italian school system
Pinocchio
Per saperne di più
da/per + expressions of time
The imperfect versus the present perfect: sapere and conoscere
Capitolo 10 La vita e il benessere
Strategie di comunicazione
Expressing regret
Expressing regret, sorrow, and making apologies
Lessico
Activities, hobbies, and well-being
La salute
Strutture
Using the present to talk about the future
The future
Hypotheticals of probability
Cultura
Sports in Italy
Per saperne di più
The future of probability
Capitolo 11 Casa dolce casa
Strategie di comunicazione
Managing conversations
Seeking approval and expressing hesitation
Lessico
Describing Italian houses and furniture
Strutture
Object pronouns
Indefinite pronouns
The relative pronoun che
Cultura
Houses in Pompeii
Lodging in Italy
Per saperne di più
Object pronouns and the present perfect
Indefinite adjectives
The relative pronoun cui (whom/which)
Capitolo 12 In città
Strategie di comunicazione
Review
Expressing opinions
Lessico
Talking about Italian cities and towns
Strutture
Review
The present perfect of irregular verbs
The past absolute
The imperfect versus the passato prossimo
The imperfect versus the past absolute
The comparative
The irregular comparative
Object pronouns
More about the verb piacere
Cultura
Italian cities
Barbara’s blog: Florence
Per saperne di più
Double object pronouns
Capitolo 13 Andiamo in ferie!
Strategie di comunicazione
Expressing wishes and desires
Making suggestions and giving advice
Lessico
Talking about vacations
Strutture
The present conditional
The informal imperative
The formal imperative
Cultura
Italian vacations
Per saperne di più
The past conditional
Capitolo 14 Chi sono gli italiani?
Strategie di comunicazione
Talking about what people do in general
Explaining how things are done
Lessico
Talking about Italian society today
Strutture
Si + verb
The present subjunctive
Verbs and expressions followed by the subjunctive
Cultura
Italian demograhics
Per saperne di più
More irregular verbs in the subjunctive
a/di + infinitive
Capitolo 15 Quali lingue parli?
Strategie di comunicazione
Asking and verifying whether someone can do something
Recognizing regional varieties of Italian
Lessico
The languages of Italy
Strutture
The past subjunctive
The subjunctive versus the indicative
Hypotheticals of possibility
Cultura
History of the Italian language
Per saperne di più
Conjunctions followed by the subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive
Capitolo 16 Sono famosi
Strategie di comunicazione
Review
Making recommendations
Lessico
Talking about historical people and events
Strutture
Review
The infinitive and present indicative
The present perfect
The imperfect
Object pronouns
Cultura
History of Italian art
Enrica’s blog: Naples
Per saperne di più
Stressed pronouns
Pronominal verbs and the idiomatic expressions: andarsene, farcela, and avercela con qualcuno
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