Italian Vocabulary Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533233790)

Italian Vocabulary Practice is a collection of 53 vocabulary sheets split into 20 broad topics, together with a further 53 practice worksheets and their associated answer keys The topics are as follows:

• Clothes, Fashion & Footwear
• Colours & Shapes
• Communication & Mass Media
• Countries, Nationalities & Place Names
• Environmental Issues
• Family, Life Events & Relationships
• Food & Drink
• Health & Wellbeing
• Hobbies, Pastimes & Sports
• Holidays & Festivities
• House, Home & Daily Routine
• Physical & Character Description
• Politics & Social Issues
• School & Further Education
• Shops, Shopping & Services
• Town, City & Local Area
• Travel & Transport
• Weather & Seasons
• Weights & Measures
• Work & Commerce

Each of the vocabulary sheets presents the key vocabulary for the topic as a Italian-English word/expression list which is further subdivided into specific areas within the topic. Each vocabulary sheet also has a corresponding practice sheet which enables students to test their knowledge of the vocabulary through the following series of exercises and activities:

• Straight translation of vocabulary from Italian to English and vice versa
• Finding the odd word or phrase in a sequence
• Unjumbling words
• Identifying words from Italian dictionary definitions
• Separating "word snakes" into individual words and phrases
• Indicating whether statements in Italian about words and phrases are true or false
• Linking together split and jumbled words and phrases
• Filling in missing vowels and consonants in words and phrases
• Finding words in word searches
• Solving crosswords
• Identifying and fitting in words to a blank grid
• Multiple choice translation
• Linking together words and phrases which share a connection and then identifying the connection

Each practice sheet has an answer key which is placed apart from it towards the end of the book.

You may also be interested in three other publications, Italian Grammar Practice, More Italian Grammar Practice and Italian Language Puzzles. All my Italian titles can be purchased on Amazon in traditional and e-book formats; for A4 and Letter-sized photocopy master versions visit my website www.italiangrammar.com.

The above Italian titles are also available in French from the same sources. See my website http: //www.frenchgrammar.co.uk for further details.