Antonello Borra's Books

A tool to integrate classic Italian movies for Italian language classroom instruction. Includes vocabulary practice, comprehension exercises, discussion questions, and activities.

Focusing on contemporary Italian films, this book offers Italian-language teachers an opportunity to incorporate authentic language in their classrooms. The book is adaptable for any level of language instruction and devotes one chapter to each of ten entertaining movies - among them Cinema Paradiso, La vita e bella, Mediterraneo, and Il postino. films are included in each chapter. The exercises range in difficulty from elementary to highly sophisticated and are designed to enhance students' vocabulary and cultural awareness as well as oral and written skills. Because the film chapters are arranged chronologically and not in order of increasing difficulty, teachers may place particular films in their syllabi at any stage of language instruction. Drawing on a fine selection of relevant Italian films, this book aims to effectively foster a deeper understanding of both Italian language and culture.

The 77 individuals whose voices channeled here are, or rather were, real people. Like my grandfather, they were all victims of an idea of "normality" that did not include them and, therefore, secluded them, confining their bodies to a cruel and repressive institution. Surviving the "insane asylums" until 1978, when the Basaglia Law finally closed them, was almost always at the expense of one's sanity.

Book's by Antonello Borra

Italian Through Film

Italian Through Film

Italian Through Film

Italian Through Film

Italian Through Film

Italian Through Film

The Factory of Ideas/Fabbrica Delle Idee

The Factory of Ideas/Fabbrica Delle Idee

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