Intermediate Italian: describing people
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1  Physical appearance
    • Describing people's faces
    • Describing physical characteristics
    • Understanding spoken physical descriptions
    • Forming physical descriptions
    • Practising describing people
    • Listening to descriptions
  • 2  Comparing
    • Comparing people using più … di or meno … di
    • Comparing two people using come or quanto
    • Practising comparing people
  • 3  Personality
    • Listening to descriptions
    • Describing someone’s personality
    • Understanding written descriptions
    • Practising describing people
    • Useful adjectives for describing people
  • 4  Literary description
    • Natalia Ginzburg
    • Scan-reading a text
    • Checking meaning
    • Detailed reading
    • Opposites
    • Writing a description yourself
  • Conclusion
  • Take the next step
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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