Collana Cinema Italia

A.Serio – E. Meloni

Educational activities for foreigners. Intermediate – advanced (B2-C1)

Cinema Italia is a series on Italian cinema for students of all levels. Each booklet presents two films sharing the same or similar topics. The selected films can be easily found on the market.

• It aims at developing student’s language skills and vocabulary, through the analysis of Italian films of our great classical and contemporary repertoire.
• Each film has three sections: before, during and after the vision.
• It offers a wide range of comprehension, listening and writing activities also covering socio-cultural aspects.
• offers further educational courses, to deepen and expand the themes of the films.
• Includes the key to the activities, often with exhaustive comments on the film, in order to facilitate self-learning.

For all the titles in the series, for orders of 5 or 10 copies, a discount of 20% and 25% is granted.

The series Cinema Italia includes:

• Caro Diario: Isole / Medici (level A2-B1)
• l ladro di bambini / Io non ho paura
• I cento passi – Johnny stecchino (C1-C2)

Caro Diario: Isole / Medici (level A2-B1)

The booklet includes two of the three episodes of the film Caro Diario, in which the actor-director Nanni Moretti notes his impressions, thoughts, concerns, ideas, while discovering Rome on a Vespa, during his trip in the Aeolian Islands with e friend and during the treatment of a disease.

To learn more browse the introduction and the beginning of a course unit.

l ladro di bambini / Io non ho paura

This first volume presents the world through children’s eyes thanks to two successful films of two important film directors: Gabriele Salvatores and Gianni Amelio.

To learn more browse the introduction and the beginning of a course unit.

I cento passi – Johnny stecchino (C1-C2)

I cento passi – Johnny stecchino (C1-C2), Marco Tullio Giordana and Roberto Benigni, each in their own way, break their silence against the Mafia, denouncing its violence, its cruelty, and its ramification in the society and the daily lives of people.

To learn more browse the introduction and the beginning of a course unit.