EF Film Study: Io loro e Lara is now available from Edizioni Farinelli.
The latest Carlo Verdone comedy will surely delight. It’s the story of a priest posted to Africa who is now on leave to visit his family in Italy. He’s been granted the leave so that he can spend time reflecting as to whether he wishes to remain in the priesthood. The exploits that develop between him and his father, his father’s girlfriend, his brother, sister and others poses quite a reflection for the priest.
This 58-page, intermediate-level text developed by Cheryl Tarantino, lecturer in Italian at the University of California Riverside, covers seven, 15 to 20-minute sequences of the film with varied exercises for comprehension, grammar, class discussion, vocabulary building and writing, plus “Cultura” readings” on topics, such as, “Il caffe’,” “La gesticolazione, “La vita notturna e il bel vestire,” and more.
Sandra Parmegiani, Assistant Professor, School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Guelph in Canada says, “The text is wisely structured and facilitates the exploration of Italian society, its culture, the varieties of the spoken language, and the complex and charming intricacies of the Italian psyche...”
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ISBN 978-0-9846327-9-4
Item #383-LARA
DVD is Region 2 and requires an international DVD player.
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The EF Film Study series is a new systematic approach to learning Italian through focused viewing of classic and contemporary Italian films. This series helps university and high school teachers keep their curriculum fresh and interesting. With the addition of this new text to its film study series, Edizioni Farinelli now offers film study texts and DVDs for 18 movies: Buongiorno notte, Caterina va in città, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, Ciao Professore, Cinema Paradiso, Giorni e nuvole, Il divo, Il postino, Io loro e Lara, Io non ho paura, La meglio gioventù, L'ultimo bacio, La vita è bella, Pane e tulipani, Pinocchio, Ricordati di me, Romanzo criminale and Tutta la vita davanti.
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