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lezione p Il saluto COMMUNICATIVE OBJECTIVES Greet others and say good-bye using the appropriate level of formality Express how you re feeling Express what you like Talk about classes and people Give street addresses and zip codes Studenti e studentesse vanno a lezione all Università di Sicilia RISORSE audio video www.cengagebrain.com/shop/ ISBN/0495913391 ilrn.heinle.com Federico Meneghetti / Photolibrary
Lezione preliminare 1 CD1, Track 2 Buon giorno! Lei come si chiama? Il professore e lo studente professor landini: maurizio: Buon giorno. Sono Giovanni Landini. Sono il professore d italiano. Lei come si chiama? Buon giorno, professore. Mi chiamo Maurizio Ferroni. La professoressa e la studentessa professoressa venturi: Buon giorno. Sono la professoressa d italiano. Mi chiamo Luciana Venturi. E lei, come si chiama? simona: Buon giorno, professoressa. Mi chiamo Simona Barbieri. Buona sera! Come sta? Il signor Carboni e il dottor Salvini signor carboni: Buona sera, dottor Salvini. Come sta? dottor salvini: Bene, grazie, e lei? Signor carboni: Molto bene, grazie.... Arrivederla, dottore. La signora Masetti e la signorina Polidori signorina polidori: Buona sera, signora Masetti. Come sta? signora masetti: Abbastanza bene, e lei? signorina polidori: Bene, grazie... A più tardi, signora. Pratica 1. Introduce yourself to four or five classmates, asking each person his/her name. >> Buon giorno. Mi chiamo (Giorgio Lotti). E lei, come si chiama? Mi chiamo (Gabriella). lei = you, formal tu = you, informal Buon giorno and buona sera can also be spelled as 1 word: buongiorno, buonasera. 2. Find out from three or four classmates how they are feeling. >> Buon giorno, (Roberto). Come sta? Bene (Abbastanza bene / Non c è male), grazie. E lei? Molto bene.
2 Lezione preliminare Levels of formality In Italian, as in English, speakers use different levels of formality, depending on the situation and to whom they are speaking. For example, in Italy, you might use ciao or salve (hello) as a greeting, and ciao or arrivederci as a farewell to a friend or a member of the family. In a more formal situation, speaking to a stranger or an acquaintance, you might use buon giorno or buona sera as a greeting and arrivederla as a farewell. In English, speakers always use the pronoun you when addressing another person. In Italian, there are two ways of expressing you when addressing another person. Tu is used with someone you know on a first-name basis, such as a child, friend, classmate, or member of your family. Lei is used with a stranger, an acquaintance, an older person, or someone in a position of authority. What greetings do you use in English in formal and informal situations? Ciao, Giovanni, come stai? Non c è male, grazie. E tu? Alessandro Ventura / Photolibrary CD1, Track 3 Ciao! Come ti chiami? Anna Melani e Paolo Salvatori paolo: Ciao! Come ti chiami? anna: Io? Mi chiamo Anna. E tu, come ti chiami? paolo: Paolo. Silvia Bellini ed Enrico Genovesi silvia: Tu ti chiami Paolo Salvatori? enrico: No, mi chiamo Enrico Genovesi. silvia: Piacere, Enrico. Io mi chiamo Silvia Bellini. Come stai? Patrizia Moro e Rosanna Peroni rosanna: Ciao, Patrizia, come stai? patrizia: Non c è male. E tu? rosanna: Benissimo!... Arrivederci. patrizia: A domani, Rosanna.
Lezione preliminare 3 Luigi Rinaldi e Marcello Bottino luigi: Salve, Marcello. Come stai? marcello: Bene, grazie. E tu, come stai? luigi: Mah, così così.... A presto, Marcello. marcello: Ciao! Pratica 1. Find out the names of four or five classmates. >> Tu, come ti chiami? Mi chiamo (Susanna / Mario). 2. Greet a friend and ask how he/she is. Then exchange roles. >> Ciao (Renata), come stai? Molto bene (Benissimo / Non c è male / Così così / Male), grazie. 3. You re leaving class. Say good-bye to four or five classmates. >> Ciao (Luigi), arrivederci. A domani (A presto / Ci vediamo domani). Ciao, (Vittoria). Use of courtesy and professional titles The use of first names among adults is less frequent in Italy than in the United States. In the workplace in informal situations, people usually call or refer to their colleagues or coworkers by using only their last names without any title. The courtesy titles signore, signorina, and signora can be used in place of a name. In contrast to English usage, professional titles, such as dottore, avvocato (lawyer), and ingegnere (engineer), are commonly used with or as substitutes for names. Notice that the titles ending in -re (signore, dottore, professore, and ingegnere) drop the final -e when they precede a name: Buon giorno, professore. Buon giorno, dottore. Buon giorno, professor Dini. Buon giorno, dottor Paolini. Signore, signora, and signorina usually are not capitalized in Italian, except in their abbreviated forms (Sig., Sig.ra, and Sig.na), which are used mainly in letter writing. La dottoressa Conti parla con la sua segretaria. JHDT Stock Images LLC / Shutterstock
4 Lezione preliminare CD1, Track 4 Che peccato! Giulia Campo is walking through Piazza San Marco in Florence on her way to class when she meets her friend Giacomo Mannini. They shake hands and chat for a minute. giulia: Ciao, Giacomo, come stai? giacomo: Non c è male, grazie, e tu? giulia: Bene, grazie.... Ah, ecco il professor Renzi. Buon giorno, professor Renzi. 5 professor renzi: Buon giorno, signorina Campo. Buon giorno, signor Mannini. giacomo e giulia: Buon giorno, professore. The professor continues on his way. giacomo: Hai lezione d italiano con il professor Renzi? 10 giulia: Sì, fra cinque minuti. giacomo: Ti piace l italiano? giulia: Sì, mi piace molto. Scusa, Giacomo, ma sono in ritardo. giacomo: Che peccato! Arrivederci, Giulia, buona giornata! 15 giulia: Grazie! Ciao, Giacomo. A presto. Pratica 1. You re between classes. Ask a classmate if he/she has class tomorrow. Then switch roles. >> Hai lezione domani? Sì, ho lezione d italiano (d inglese/di matematica/di storia). La lezione means lesson or class, as in to have a class. La classe (d italiano) can refer to the (Italian) classroom or the group of students in it. 2. Find out from a classmate if he/she has a class with a specific teacher whom you know. Then switch roles. >> Hai lezione con (il professor Montini / la professoressa Corvari)? No, ho lezione con il professor... (la professoressa...). 3. Ask a classmate if he/she likes certain academic subjects. >> Ti piace (l italiano / l inglese / la matematica / la storia)? Sì, mi piace. (Sì, mi piace molto. / No, non mi piace.) 4. You see a friend hurrying along a hallway. Find out if he/she is late. >> Ciao, Monica, sei in ritardo? No, non sono in ritardo (sono in anticipo/sono puntuale).
Lezione preliminare 5 I nomi italiani (maschili e femminili) Some Italian names are similar to English first names, with slight spelling changes, while others have no English equivalent. Note that many masculine first names ending in -o have an equivalent feminine first name ending in -a. Listen and repeat each name after your instructor. Look for the Italian equivalent of your name and the names of family members, friends, and acquaintances. If no Italian equivalent of your name is listed, ask your instructor if there is one. nomi maschili nomi femminili Italians frequently use the diminutive forms of names: Antonio = Toni or Tonio Giovanni = Gianni or Vanni Giuseppe = Beppe, Peppe, or Pino Luigi = Luigino or Gino Giulia = Giulietta Elisabetta = Betta, Bettina, or Elisa Giovanna = Gianna or Vanna Alberto Marcello Angela Giulia Antonio Mario Anna Lisa Carlo Massimo Antonella Loretta Emilio Michele Bettina Luisa Enrico Paolo Carla Maria Franco Pietro Caterina Marisa Giacomo Renato Daniela Paola Giorgio Roberto Elena Patrizia Giovanni Stefano Elisabetta Rosanna Giuseppe Tommaso Franca Silvia Lorenzo Valerio Francesca Teresa Luigi Vittorio Giovanna Valeria Customary greetings In Italy, it is customary to shake hands when greeting good friends as well as acquaintances, regardless of age. Italians (and many other Europeans) shake hands with only one or two short, up-anddown motions, not a series of them as Americans do. Close friends who have not seen each other in a long time tend to greet each other with a light kiss on both cheeks, and not on one cheek only as Americans do in similar circumstances. When do you shake hands with someone? Whom do you greet with a kiss? Antonello Turchetti / Getty Images Arrivederci, Anna. Ciao, a domani.
Licensed to: ichapters User Le zi o n e p r el i m i n a r e 6 Pronuncia L alfabeto italiano CD1, Track 5 The Italian alphabet consists of twenty-one letters and five additional letters that appear only in foreign words. Accent marks ( and `) occur on the vowels a, e, i, o, and u under certain circumstances. Listen and repeat each letter of the Italian alphabet. alfabeto italiano The grave accent ( ` ) is more common than the acute accent ( ) in Italian. The latter is generally used to indicate the closed sound of /e/ in words such as: perché, ventitré, benché, etc. lettere straniere maiuscole e minuscole accenti e punteggiatura a a h acca q cu j i lunga C ci maiuscola accento acuto b bi i i r erre k cappa c ci minuscola ` accento grave c ci l elle s esse x ics. punto d di m emme t ti y ipsilon, virgola e e n enne u u w vu doppia? punto interrogativo f effe o o v vu! punto esclamativo g gi p pi z zeta Cultura in movimento Università perstranieri disiena UNIVERSITÀ PER STRANIERI DI SIENA Università per Stranieri di Siena SIENA www.unistrasi.it 0577 240 100/111 a Yo You are at a hotel in Venice. Spell your name for the receptionist Y who is looking for your reservations. wh >> Jodie Fowler Jodie: i lunga, o, di, i, e Fowler: effe, o, vu doppia, elle, e, erre b You are in Italy trying to get the phone number of a friend from the operator. Spell out your friend s name and city. (See page 12 for some names ope of Italian cities.) >> Marco Giuliani Forlì Marco: emme, a, erre, ci, o Giuliani: gi, i, u, elle, i, a, enne, i Forlì: effe, o, erre, elle, i
Lezione preliminare 7 I suoni delle vocali Because English and Italian have their own sets of sound-spelling correspondences, the pronunciation sections of this text use a few of the special symbols developed by the International Phonetic Association to represent sounds. Each symbol, given between slash lines (for example, /a/), represents a specific sound. A complete list of symbols, together with the Italian spelling correspondences, appears in Appendix A. There are five basic vowel sounds in Italian. The sounds /a/ (spelled a, as in Anna), /i/ (spelled i, as in Milano), and /u/ (spelled u, as in studente) are stable; they are always pronounced the same. The sounds /e/ (spelled e, as in bene) and /o/ (spelled o, as in sono) may vary slightly. CD1, Tracks 6 8 c d Listen and repeat the following words to practice the vowel sounds. americana bene minuti sono Ugo Anna come italiano Torino studente matematica lezione signore Roberto università Proverbio. Listen and repeat the following Italian proverb. Chi trova un amico trova un tesoro. He who finds a friend finds a treasure. I numeri da 0 a 20 Listen and pronounce the numbers from 0 to 20 (da zero a venti). 0 = zero 1 = uno 2 = due 3 = tre 4 = quattro 5 = cinque 6 = sei 7 = sette 8 = otto 9 = nove 10 = dieci 11 = undici 12 = dodici 13 = tredici 14 = quattordici 15 = quindici 16 = sedici 17 = diciassette 18 = diciotto 19 = diciannove 20 = venti e In pairs: What are your reasons for learning Italian? Rate on a scale from 0 to 10 (da zero a dieci), how important it is for you to do the following. Compare your responses with those of your partner. >> speak Italian when you visit Italy dieci 1. read Italian newspapers or magazines 2. understand printed signs when you are in Italy 3. order food in an Italian restaurant in this country 4. learn more about Italian culture 5. cook lasagna from an Italian recipe 6. understand what the characters in Italian movies are saying 7. read literary classics in Italian 8. sing Puccini s Madama Butterfly in Italian
8 Lezione preliminare f In pairs: Exchange addresses with a classmate. Say your street number and zip code as in the model. >> Via Manzoni, diciotto (18) zero, zero, uno, nove, sette (00197) Roma CD1, Track 9 Parole analoghe Italian is a Romance language, which means that it derives from Latin, the language of the ancient Romans. Other Romance languages are French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, and Provençal. English is a Germanic language, but it contains thousands of words derived from Latin that resemble their Italian equivalents. These words are called cognates (parole analoghe). Most cognates are easily recognizable in print, though their pronunciation may be different. For example: studente student possibile possible studiare to study professore professor famoso famous arrivare to arrive lezione lesson interessante interesting entrare to enter Other cognates form groups of words with easily recognizable patterns. For example: -tà ty -ale -al -zione -tion città city nazionale national informazione information difficoltà difficulty originale original modificazione modification università university speciale special tradizione tradition Luckily, there are relatively few false cognates in Italian. False cognates resemble English words, but their meanings are different. An example of a false cognate is collegio, which generally means boarding school, not college. Context will usually help you recognize false cognates. Learn to recognize cognates to help you understand Italian more easily. g Complete the sentences, choosing from the following list of cognates. città interessante possibile speciale lezione studente 1. Giacomo studia la due. 2. Venezia è una bella. 3. La lingua italiana è. 4. Lo arriva all università. 5. Non è entrare.
Lezione preliminare 9 L Italia nell Europa Carta dell Unione Europea OCEANO ATLANTICO PORTOGALLO Madrid Lisbona SPAGNA FINLANDIA Helsinki SVEZIA Stoccolma Tallinn ESTONIA Mare Riga IRLANDA del LETTONIA Dublino Nord DANIMARCA LITUANIA GRAN Copenaghen Vilnius BRETAGNA Londra Amsterdam OLANDA Berlino POLONIA BELGIO GERMANIA Varsavia Bruxelles LUSSEMBURGO Parigi Lussemburgo Praga REP. CECA Strasburgo SLOVACCHIA FRANCIA Berna Vienna Bratislava SVIZZERA AUSTRIA Budapest UNGHERIA SLOVENIA ITALIA Roma Mar Baltico ROMANIA BULGARIA Mar Nero MARE MEDITERRANEO GRECIA Atene La Valletta MALTA Nicosia CIPRO Italy, located in southern Europe, is a peninsula stretching into the Mediterranean Sea. Rome is its capital, and Italian is the language spoken by about 60 million people living in Italy. Italian is also spoken by residents of the Canton Ticino in Switzerland, by many Ethiopians, and by Italians around the world. In the United States and Canada, for example, there are millions of American and Canadian citizens who speak Italian as a first or second language and who retain close ties with their relatives in Italy. Sabine Lubenow / Photolibrary
10 Lezione preliminare Carta fisica d Italia Lago Maggiore P o Genova Golfo di Genova Mare Ligure Lago di Como Milano A P A L P o Lago di Garda P E N Arno Firenze P I Venezia Golfo di Venezia M a r e A d r i a t Elba N I N Tevere Roma I i c o SARDEGNA Mare Tirreno Napoli Ischia Golfo di Capri Napoli Bari Golfo di Taranto 0 50 100 150 200 250 Chilometri 0 50 100 150 Miglia M a r e M e d i t e Palermo Messina Mare Ionio r r a n e o SICILIA Stretto di Messina h Many geographical terms are cognates. Pronounce each of the terms listed below after your instructor. Note that il, la, l, lo, gli, and le all mean the. le Alpi Alps gli Appennini Apennines la baia bay la capitale capital (of a country) il capoluogo capital (of a region) la catena di montagne mountain range la città city il fiume river il golfo gulf l isola island il lago lake il mare sea la montagna mountain il paese country; small town la penisola peninsula il Po Po (River) il porto port la provincia province la regione region lo stretto strait La capitale vs. il capoluogo: Note that Roma è la capitale d Italia and that Napoli è il capoluogo della Campania.
Lezione preliminare 11 hi Learn the eight points of the compass shown below. Note how closely they resemble their English cognates. Listen to your instructor pronounce each one, paying particular attention to the difference between est and ovest. j Complete the following statements in Italian, using the points of the compass and the map of Europe on page 9. Note that al means to the. 1. La Svizzera è al dell Italia. 2. La Grecia è al dell Italia. 3. La Germania è al dell Italia. 4. La Gran Bretagna è al dell Italia. 5. La Francia è al dell Italia. Quanthem / Shutterstock Positano: pittoresco paese sul mare vicino a Napoli
12 Lezione preliminare Carta politica d Italia FRANCIA SVIZZERA A AOSTA Aosta Novara Vercelli Torino Asti P o L P Lago Maggiore Milano Brescia AUSTRIA TRENTINO- ALTO Cortina d Ampezzo ADIGE Trento FRIULI- VENEZIA GIULIA SLOVENIA VENETO Udine Gorizia Vicenza Pordenone Verona Burano Trieste Murano PIEMONTE Parma Genova Rapallo EMILIA-ROMAGNA Portofino LIGURIA Bologna San Remo Ravenna LE CINQUE TERRE REPUBBLICA Pisa Firenze DI SAN MARINO Urbino Pesaro Mare Città di Castello Ligure Siena Gubbio Ancona TOSCANA Assisi Elba Lago Trasimeno Macerata Perugia UMBRIA Corsica Orvieto Ascoli Piceno (Francia) Giglio Todi Spoleto Teramo Lago di Terni Pescara Bolsena Tevere L Aquila Civitavecchia Chieti ABRUZZO Isole Tremiti Isola Maddalena VATICANO Roma Gargano Isola Caprera MOLISE Porto Torres Costa Smeralda Campobasso Alghero Sassari Olbia CAMPANIA Bari Nuoro Napoli Ischia Vesuvio SARDEGNA Potenza Alberobello Capri Salerno Brindisi BASILICATA Taranto Cagliari Sibari Cosenza 0 50 100 150 200 250 Chilometri Ustica Stromboli Crotone 0 50 100 150 Miglia Isole Lipari Catanzaro Palermo Gioia Tauro Isole Egadi Messina Locri Cefalù Reggio Calabria Etna Mare SICILIA Taormina Catania Ionio Agrigento AFRICA Siracusa M a r e M e d i t e L O M B A R D I A La Spezia I Portovenere Lago di Como Livorno Lago di Garda A P P E A P r o n o r a n e o Adige N N L A Z I M a r e T i r r e n o D O L O M Padova Venezia O M A R C H E I N Liri I I T I M a r e A d r i a t P U G CALABRIA i c o L I A k Repeat after your instructor the names of the Italian regions listed below. Then locate each one on the map. l Abruzzo (gli Abruzzi) la Basilicata la Calabria la Campania l Emilia-Romagna il Friuli-Venezia Giulia il Lazio la Liguria la Lombardia le Marche il Molise il Piemonte la Puglia la Sardegna la Sicilia la Toscana il Trentino-Alto Adige l Umbria la Valle d Aosta il Veneto granata1111 / Shutterstock
Lezione preliminare 13 Vocabolario Greetings buon giorno hello, good morning buona sera good evening ciao hi (informal) salve hello Farewells arrivederci good-bye arrivederla good-bye (formal) a più tardi see you later a domani see you tomorrow a presto see you soon buona giornata have a good day ci vediamo domani see you tomorrow ciao bye (informal) Asking and giving names come si chiama lei? what s your name? (formal) come ti chiami? what s your name? (informal) mi chiamo... my name is... Expressions involving time fra cinque minuti in five minutes fra poco soon sono in ritardo I m late sono puntuale I m on time sono in anticipo I m early Names of courses l inglese English l italiano Italian la matematica mathematics la storia history Numbers (see p. 7) Geographical terms (see p. 10) Asking how someone is come sta? how are you? (formal) come stai? how are you? (informal) bene, grazie fine, thanks benissimo! just great! molto bene very well abbastanza bene quite well così così so-so non c è male not too bad male bad Persons il dottore (male) doctor la dottoressa (female) doctor il professore (male) professor la professoressa (female) professor lo studente (male) student la studentessa (female) student Courtesy titles signore sir; signor + last name Mr. signora ma am; signora + last name Mrs. signorina Miss; signorina + last name Miss Other words and expressions che peccato! what a shame! too bad! con with di (d before vowels) of, from domani tomorrow e and ecco there is, there are grazie thanks, thank you hai lezione? do you have a class? io I lei you (formal) ma but mah oh molto a lot, a great deal no no piacere to like, to be pleasing; mi piace... I like... ; non mi piace... I don t like... ; ti piace...? do you like...? piacere! how do you do! scusa excuse me (informal) sì yes sono I am tu you (informal) Vocabulary terms are recorded and available on the Premium website: www.cengagebrain.com/shop/isbn/0495913391 Be sure you know the meaning and use of these words and expressions before you proceed to Lezione 1. Names of languages are not capitalized in Italian. Mi (Ti) piace + singular noun or infi nitive