Foundations Italian 2

A lively and popular textbook teaching Italian to post-beginners working in a classroom setting.  A diverse range of dialogues, 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.  A substantial self-study section offers practice material for homework and revision, and for extension purposes.  All the audio is available free-to-access as MP3 files online.

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 2 is ideal for students with some basic GCSE or other beginner’s knowledge.  It can be used as a successor to Foundations Italian 1, or following any similar beginner’s course.

MARA BENETTI is a Visiting Lecturer at Imperial College and at Goldsmith's College, University of London. Mara has taught and researched in different parts of the world and she collaborated with the BBC as a language adviser for one of their courses.

CRISTINA TESTI is a Lecturer at the Language Centre of University College London, UK, where she teaches Italian and she also teaches at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. Cristina is a Teacher Trainer at the International House and teaches in Italy for the British Institute of Florence.

CATERINA VARCHETTA was Italian Coordinator at the London Metropolitan University, UK, where she also taught Italian on the IWL Programme. She has a wealth of experience teaching Italian as a foreign language at further and tertiary level in the UK.