Nuovo Espresso 3: B1.1 Overview
Chapter 1: Do you speak Italian?
- Make analogies.Invite someone to do something together.
- Ask for opinions.
- Express surprise, relief, joy, or understanding.
- Show doubt.
- Borrow something.
- Share a cultural or linguistic mishap.
- Express opinions.
- Agree or disagree.
- Grammar:
- Il trapassato prossimo (Past perfect tense).
- Prima di + infinito (Before + infinitive).
- Using dovere to express assumptions or hypotheses.
- Combined pronouns.
- Negative prefix in-.
Chapter 2: Vivere in città (Living in the City)
Ask for help.
- Complain.
- Express hope or disapproval.
- Share desires and prohibitions.
- Ask for reasons and motivate actions.
- Insist.
- Make plans.
- Express preferences.
- Indicate the geographic location of a place.
- Grammar:
- l condizionale passato (Past conditional) to express unrealized desires.
- Pronominal particles ci and ne.
- Some reflexive verbs.
- Possessive pronouns.