A lively and popular introductory textbook teaching Italian to absolute beginners working in a classroom setting. A diverse range of dialogues, video clips, and reading passages deliver new material which is carefully practised in a wide variety of imaginative exercises, both individually and in pair- and groupwork, and backed up by structured grammatical underpinning and exercises.
Foundations Languages courses are tailor-made for undergraduates and other students on Institution-wide Languages Programmes (IWLPs), languages options and electives, ab initio and minor routes in languages, and open learning programmes at universities and in Adult Education. Foundations Italian 1 assumes no previous knowledge.
Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bloomsbury-foundation-languages. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost. Included are: accompanying audio and video, a substantial self-study section with practice material for homework and revision, and for extension purposes.
Mara Benetti is a teacher of Italian at Imperial College London, UK, and of medical and scientific translation at UCL, London, UK.
Carmela Murtas was an Italian tutor and teacher trainer at International House London, UK, and formerly Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster, UK.
Caterina Varchetta was Italian Coordinator at London Metropolitan University, UK, where she taught Italian on the IWLP programme.