AS LEVEL ITALIAN – EXAMINATION BOARD EDEXCEL
By the beginning of your Year 12 course, you should have a secure knowledge of the following
aspects of the Italian language:
The Present Tense
The Perfect Tense
The Imperfect Tense
The Future Tense
The Conditional Tense
Definite, indefinite and partitive articles
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositions
You should use the websites and reference works listed below to get yourself up to scratch by
September.
Websites
http://www.uvm.edu/~cmazzoni/3grammatica/grammatica/
http://webs.racocatala.cat/llengua/it/index.html
www.languagesonline.org.uk
Grammar Books
Italian Grammar in Practice
Schaum’s Outline of Italian Grammar
Azione Grammatica
Vocabulary Books
Schaum’s Outline of Italian Vocabulary
Parola per Parola
Text Book
In Bocca al Lupo
Examination Board Specification
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocument
s/GCE%20New%20GCE/UA035240_GCE_Lin_I
talian_Issue%203.pdf
Other Useful Websites for Italian Studies
http://www.linguascope.com/ (Username Townleygsg; password Restaurant)
http://www.listenlive.eu/italy.html (Italian Live Radio) www.rai.it (Italian TV)
Year 12 Modern Languages Self-evaluation
The following are the structures you should have learnt at GCSE and are the minimum
requirement to be able to operate effectively at the beginning of your A Level Languages
course. Please indicate how well you are acquainted with each point with a tick and date in
the appropriate box. Use the following guidelines to help you:
RED I haven’t got a clue - help!
AMBER I have learnt this and am confident with some aspects.
GREEN I can use this confidently.
Grammar Point Details RED AMBER GREEN
NOUNS Gender
Singular and plural forms
ARTICLES Definite
Indefinite and partitive
ADJECTIVES Agreement
Position
Comparative and superlative
regular and irregular
Demonstrative (questo/a,
questi/e, quello/a, quelli/e)
Indefinite (alcuno, nessuno,
ogni)
Possessive (il mio, la mia)
Interrogative (quale, quanto)
ADVERBS Comparative and superlative
Regular
Interrogative (quando, come)
QUANTIFIERS/
INTENSIFIERS
Molto, abbastanza, poco
Grammar Point Details RED AMBER GREEN
PRONOUNS Personal all subjects
Reflexive
Relative (che, quello che, chi)
Object, direct and indirect
Position and order of object
pronouns
Disjunctive/emphatic
Demonstrative (questo, quello)
Indefinite (qualcuno, ciascuno)
Interrogative (chi, di chi, che
cosa, quale)
VERBS Regular and irregular including
reflexives
All persons of the verb,
singular and plural
Negative forms
Interrogative forms
Modes of address (tu, Lei)
Impersonal ‘si’
Verbs followed by an infinitive
with or without a preposition
TENSES Present
Perfect
Pluperfect
Imperfect
Future
Conditional
Gerund (eg. sto facendo)
ARE YOU MOSTLY RED, AMBER OR GREEN?
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