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.Contatti: A First Course in Italian: Student's Book v. 1 (Contatti)

by: Mariolina Freeth, Giuliana Checketts

June 28, 2002
I bought the CD as part of the Contatti Italian to teach a class. I speak Italian fluently, and even then found the layout confusing. The CD is not divided into the various sub-sections so one cannot FF or RW except between chapters and one therefore wastes much time waiting for the right sub-section to be played. I would therefore NOT recommend it to anyone unless the CD is remastered to allow stop/start in between each sub-section.
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.Contatti: A First Course in Italian: Activity Book Vol 1 (Contatti)

by: Mariolina Freeth, Giuliana Checketts

May 30, 2003
This book has a lot of useful exercises to do at home between classes to practise all the new grammar that's been introduced in the different chapters. It also has a key to all the exercises so you can check them yourself.

A word of warning though. The instructions aren't always very clear, particularly not to beginners, so you might need a teacher to explain them to you. There are also no explanations so it's not always easy to see what you've done wrong and why it's wrong. Furthermore, there's a lot of typos, both in the main part of the book and in the answer section so don't always accept something as wrong, do ask your teacher if you think it's supposed to be right.
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.Contatti: A First Course in Italian: Complete Pack Vol 1

by: Mariolina Freeth, Giuliana Checketts

June 25, 2002
I bought the CD as part of the Contatti Italian to teach a class. I speak Italian fluently, and even then found the layout confusing. The CD is not divided into the various sub-sections so one cannot FF or RW except between chapters and one therefore wastes much time waiting for the right sub-section to be played. I would therefore NOT recommend it to anyone unless the CD is remastered to allow stop/start in between each sub-section.
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.Contatti 1: A First Course in Italian: CD Pack: Transcript Pack

by: Mariolina Freeth, Giuliana Checketts

June 25, 2004
I bought the CD as part of the Contatti Italian to teach a class. I speak Italian fluently, and even then found the layout confusing. The CD is not divided into the various sub-sections so one cannot FF or RW except between chapters and one therefore wastes much time waiting for the right sub-section to be played. I would therefore NOT recommend it to anyone unless the CD is remastered to allow stop/start in between each sub-section.
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.Contatti 2: An Intermediate Course in Italian: Student Book

by: Giuliana Checketts, Mariolina Freeth

June 30, 2006
has a lot of work for groups or writing, so no good for self-study. SO many mistakes its unbelieveable (e.g. missing CD tracks, missing answers, extra answers to questions which dont exist, spelling errors just to name a few).

This pack comes with CD, course book and answer key with tapescript. you have to buy the Activity book with all the grammar work seperately. This activity book, saves my rating from being a 1 star. it is a good book with lots of practice. the course book is rubbish. even the feel is out of date. it says it is the 2nd edition published in 2006, but the photos look like they come from the 80's and the layout is not very pretty. certainly not wotrth the money, but good luck if you can find another intermediate ... Read More:
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.Contatti 2: An Intermediate Course in Italian: Complete Pack

by: Giuliana Checketts, Mariolina Freeth

June 30, 2006
has a lot of work for groups or writing, so no good for self-study. SO many mistakes its unbelieveable (e.g. missing CD tracks, missing answers, extra answers to questions which dont exist, spelling errors just to name a few).

This pack comes with CD, course book and answer key with tapescript. you have to buy the Activity book with all the grammar work seperately. This activity book, saves my rating from being a 1 star. it is a good book with lots of practice. the course book is rubbish. even the feel is out of date. it says it is the 2nd edition published in 2006, but the photos look like they come from the 80's and the layout is not very pretty. certainly not wotrth the money, but good luck if you can find another intermediate ... Read More:
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.Contatti 2: A First Course in Italian: Activity Book

by: Mariolina Freeth

August 25, 2006
has a lot of work for groups or writing, so no good for self-study. SO many mistakes its unbelieveable (e.g. missing CD tracks, missing answers, extra answers to questions which dont exist, spelling errors just to name a few).

This pack comes with CD, course book and answer key with tapescript. you have to buy the Activity book with all the grammar work seperately. This activity book, saves my rating from being a 1 star. it is a good book with lots of practice. the course book is rubbish. even the feel is out of date. it says it is the 2nd edition published in 2006, but the photos look like they come from the 80's and the layout is not very pretty. certainly not wotrth the money, but good luck if you can find another intermediate ... Read More:
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.Contatti 1: Cassette Set & Transcript

by: Mariolina Freeth, Guiliana Checkett

June 28, 2002
I bought the CD as part of the Contatti Italian to teach a class. I speak Italian fluently, and even then found the layout confusing. The CD is not divided into the various sub-sections so one cannot FF or RW except between chapters and one therefore wastes much time waiting for the right sub-section to be played. I would therefore NOT recommend it to anyone unless the CD is remastered to allow stop/start in between each sub-section.
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.Contatti 2: An Intermediate Course in Italian Complete Pack: Student Book, Support Book, 2 audio cassettes (Arnold Publication)

by: Mariolina Freeth, Giuliana Checketts

October 16, 2003
I used this book as a base text for AS Level Italian (I couldn't find anything else) and although I had to tweak it to fit the exam board requirements, it was really very good. The listening exercises were excellent, and the book is stimualating and interesting. All of the exercises are good. I felt that it was a little weak though in its grammar teaching, so you would need to supplement it if you taught AS. A good and useful resource for Italian AS and A level teachers.
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.Contatti 1: A First Course in Italian (Contatti)

by: Mariolina Freeth, Giuliana Checkettes, Giuliana Checketts

January 07, 1993
I bought the CD as part of the Contatti Italian to teach a class. I speak Italian fluently, and even then found the layout confusing. The CD is not divided into the various sub-sections so one cannot FF or RW except between chapters and one therefore wastes much time waiting for the right sub-section to be played. I would therefore NOT recommend it to anyone unless the CD is remastered to allow stop/start in between each sub-section.
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