This is an activities manual to accompany Crescendo!, 3^rd Edition.

Crescendo!, 3rd Edition is a comprehensive intermediate Italian program designed to build proficiency in all four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing), and to expand  students’ cultural knowledge of contemporary Italy. The Crescendo! program helps build a dynamic and interactive environment by providing opportunities for practice through a systematic and spiral presentation of themes and current issues that are both relevant and interesting, and by encouraging readers to express themselves freely and creatively in a wide spectrum of contexts.

Francesca Italiano is currently the Italian Language Director at the University of Southern California as well as a Professor of 18th century literature and literary theory. She is the author of Incontri Attuali, a literary reader for intermediate and advanced Italian language courses, and CRESCENDO!, Italian language program. She also directs the summer program in Verona. She has a Master of Science degree in Education from USC and earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

1. Conosciamoci meglio!
2. Tanti racconti del passato
3. Tanti sogni nel cassetto!
4. Tu vuoi far l’americano
5. Migrazioni: Chi va e chi viene
6. E il mondo si fa sempre più piccolo: l’Italia nell’Unione Europea
7. Le tradizioni e la cultura popolare
8. Mangiare all’Italiana
9. L’Italia del passato: il Ventennio fascista e il neorealismo
10. L’economia: il «sistema» Italia e le nuove sfide
11. La cultura italiana
12. Approfondimenti

Appendice A Preposizioni dopo verbi e aggettivi

Appendice B Verbi regolari

Appendice C I verbi avere ed essere

Appendice D I verbi che prendono l’ausiliare essere

Appendice E Verbi irregolari

Appendice F Verbi ed espressioni che richiedono il congiuntivo