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Colloquial Italian
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Unit 11
Guess the verb
Verb practice
Gerunds
More false friends
How do you say...
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Resources for Unit 11

Guess the verb
You learnt about the formation of past participles in Unit 8 but were warned that many, especially in the second group of verbs, with an infinitive ending in -ere, are irregular. However, they are not difficult to guess and this exercise asks you to do just that.

Verb practice
Practise the passato prossimo by replacing the infinitive.

Gerunds
Practise the gerund, which you met in this unit, by forming it from the infinitive.

More false friends
You were introduced to 'false friends' in Unit 5. More recently you have met other words which some students find misleading since they are similar to English words but differ in meaning. To help you absorb them, let's meet some of them again. Can you match the phrases with the English translations?

How do you say...
Write in the key Italian phrases useful in conversation.

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