Showing posts with label subjunctive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subjunctive. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2011

Italian Review with Mina


Let’s practice subjunctive and conditional tenses with this amazing song by the famous Italian singer Mina.Try to fill the blanks on your own and then check if you were right by watching and enjoying the video!

SE TELEFONANDO

Lo stupore della notte
spalancata sul mar
ci sorprese che eravamo
sconosciuti io e te.

Poi nel buio le tue mani
d'improvviso sulle mie,
è cresciuto troppo in fretta
questo nostro amor.

Se telefonando
io (potere)_____________ dirti addio
ti (chiamare)_____________ .
Se io rivedendoti (essere)_____________ certa
che non soffri ti (rivedere) _____________
Se guardandoti negli occhi (sapere)_____________
dirti basta ti (guardare) _____________ .

Ma non so spiegarti che
il nostro amore appena nato
è già finito.

Se telefonando io(potere)_____________
dirti addioti (chiamare)_____________ .
Se io rivedendoti(essere)_____________ certa
che non soffri ti (rivedere) _____________
Se guardandoti negli occhi(sapere)_____________
dirti basta ti (guardare) _____________ .

Ma non so spiegarti che
il nostro amore appena nato
è già finito.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Se fosse... a technique to make learning fun!

In order to grasp with ease and memorize the use of the subjunctive and conditional in hypothetical clauses, we often play an enjoyable game with students on image associations: “Se fosse”!
It requires two or more people.
One player thinks of a famous person, and the other players ask questions to determine who the student is thinking of, such as:
“se fosse un’automobile?” “se fosse un luogo?” “se fosse un abito?”
“Were it a car ... were it a place... were it a piece of clothing, what would it be?”

The first player must then answer the questions providing comparisons that would hint to guess the mysterious person: “sarebbe…”




After asking a few questions to guess the identity of the person, remembering the verb combination of imperfect subjunctive and present conditional will be just child’s play!