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• Tights
• Tie
• Swimsuit
• Leather jacket
• Earmuffs
• Hat
• to wear

The Past Continuous 

• Construction and conjugation

• Yesterday evening I was driving my new car

• Last Tuesday Luca was running with his dog

Italian Present Continuous with "Still"

Conjugate:

• I am still cooking
• You are still cooking
• ...

• You were still studying
• He was still eating
• Yesterday night they were still playing cards
• Yesterday evening my mother was still cleaning the house

Italian Past Continuous with "Still"

Conjugate:

• You were still studying

Italian Past Continuous Negative Form with still

• Structure
• Yesterday evening my mother was still cleaning the house
• Yesterday evening my mother was not cleaning the house yet

Italian Past Continuous with "While"

• Structure

Italian Past Continuous with "While"

• While Tom was running, he met Dave
• While he was swimming, he saw a fish

• Sleeping like a log
• Last
• Last Sunday
• Last Monday

Past Simple

• I cooked
• I went  

Simple Past

• Name the 2 main forms

Past Simple Avere Form?

e.g. I cooked

Past Simple AVERE Form

Name the three normal endings for the Participio Passato 

• ARE
• ERE
• IRE

Past Simple irregular Conjugation "ere" verbs

• to run
• to break
• to spend
• to write
• to read
• to see
• to take out
• to switch off
• to laugh
• to put

Past Simple

• Conjugation of to read
• and to see

Past Simple Essere Form

• Are the endings of the Participio changing?
• Mixed gender, which form is used

Past Simple Essere Form

• to go ARE ending e.g. andare for masculine and feminine

Past Simple Essere Form

• to fall ERE ending

Past Simple Essere Form

• to leave IRE ending

Past Simple Examples

• I called Luca
• While I was running, I called Luca
• While she was running, she called Luca
• I fell (m+f)
• While I was walking, I fell (m)
• While I was walking, I fell (f)
• While I was cooking, I broke a glass.

•  While I was driving, I saw a cat
• While she was reading, she broke a glass
• While we were eating, Marco arrived
• While we were eating, Frederica arrived

Simple Past, Passato Prossimo

• When do I use auxiliary verb "ESSERE" or "AVERE"?

Passato Prossimo ESSERE or AVERE, General Rule

Reflexive Pronouns

• Myself
• Yourself
• Himself
• Herself
• Ourselves
• Yourselves
• Themselves

Reflexive Verbs, To Change

• I change myself
• You change yourself
• He, she changes him- herself
• We change ourselves
• You change yourselves
• They change themselves

Reflexive Verbs, To Dress

• I dress myself
• You dress yourself
• He, she dresses him- herself
• We dress ourselves
• You dress yourselves
• They dress themselves

Reflexive Verbs

To get up

• I usually get up early
• You usually get up early

Reflexive Verbs

• To wake up

• We always wake up late
• He always wake up at noon

Lavare versus Lavarsi

Wash versus wash yourself

Would Like:

Conditional form of piacere

• I would like to drink water? (both forms)

Would Like:

• Construction with piacere

Would Like:

• Pronoun construction: me, you, he, she, ...

Would Like piacere: State both possible forms

• I would like to sing
• You would like to dance 
• She would like to speak spanish

Would Like, piacere: State both possible forms

• We would like to eat spaghetti
• He wouldn't like to dance 
• You wouldn't like to dance
• They wouldn't like to dance

Wouldn't like: Construction of second case?

Would Like with names:

• Would Luca like to dance?
• Would your mother like to dance?
• Would my brother like to dance?

Would like

• When do we use the verb gradire for would like in Italian
• Which tenses can be used?
• Why is the conditional form used as well?