A. Cagli, P. Diadori, E. Spinosa
Original texts and activities for foreigners. Intermediate – advanced level (B2 - C1)
Features
Imparare l’italiano con Corto Maltese – ...e di altri Romei e altre Giuliette is for students, teenagers and adults, of B2 – C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The volume, in full colour, presents the original story, information on the writer, on the most important characters of the story and its context. A wide variety of activities will accompany the student to the comprehension, global and detailed, and to the discovery of vocabulary, of the communicative elements and of the cultural, pragmatic and socio-linguistic aspects.
In this volume, Corto Maltese, the legendary seaman, accompanies his friend Cush to his home village in the Horn of Africa desert. There, he will try to prevent a war among tribes and to keep alive a love story of two lovers, a story of… other Romeos and other Juliets.
Each volume is divided into three sections:
- in the first section, we find the introductory pages that present briefly the authors and the characters of the story, the context and some guided questions that will help the students during reading
- in the second section, we find the comic strips
- in the third part, we find exercises that will accompany the students to a major comprehension of the story through quizzes, games, in-depth analysis, and will help them to improve their Italian in an easy and fun way.
The volume is completed by a page with brief information on the comic and the main character and the activities’ keys.
You can use this book either in classroom or for self-study, in silence or by listening to the
radio set-up of the story, recorded by professional actors and enriched with music and sound effects. It is a motivating podcast (of about 21 minutes) that you can find (and download) among the attachments on the right. Obviously, being a radio set-up, many times the lines do not exactly correspond to the ones of the paper comic.
If you want to live a pleasant experience, we suggest that you listen to the set-up either before or after the reading. The acting of professional actors, supported by the music, creates perfectly the atmosphere and the images of the comic and it will transport you inside the story making you live every sensation with reality and making you eager to listen to the other available set-ups.
The series Imparare l’italiano con i fumetti comprehends various volumes with the adventures of
Corto Maltese, the legendary romantic adventurer (created by Hugo Pratt in 1967), of
Dylan Dog, the unpredictable investigator (created by Tiziano Sclavi and Angelo Stano in 1986) and of the fascinating criminologist
Julia (created by Giancarlo Berardi in 1998).
Volumes already available:
Dylan Dog - L'alba dei morti viventi:
in this volume, Dylan Dog, the fascinating investigator, faces doctor Xabaras and attempts to stop his diabolic plan to transform people in … living dead.
Dylan Dog - Jack lo Squartatore:
in this volume, Dylan Dog, the fascinating detective, faces one of the world most famous serial killers or someone that wants to emulate him. The only sure thing is that the nightmare begins after a spiritual section...
Corto Maltese - La laguna dei bei sogni (B2-C1):
in this volume, where ‘there is no coming back from the dreamland’, Corto Maltese attends to the English lieutenant Robin Stuart, who deserted in the First World War finding refuge in Venezuela, but it was in vain.
Julia - Ucciderò:
In this volume, the criminologist Julia gets a weird phone call: a stranger tells her that he is about to commit a murder. Who is he? Is he serious? Why does he tell Julia about his purpose? Does he unconsciously hopes that the criminologist will stop him or will Julia be the goal of his killing spree?
Julia – Una cara, carissima amica
(B1-B2): in this volume Julia gets an unexpected visit, a long-gone
high school friend suddenly reappears in the criminologist’s life
turning it into a nightmare.