Mastering Italian Vocabulary: A Thematic Approach

Contents
Foreword
The Pronunciation of Italian
Phonetic Notation
1. Personal Data
2. The Human Body
3. Health and Medicine
4. Eating and Drinking
5. Clothing
6. Living Arrangements
7. Human Characteristics
8. Feelings, Instincts, Drives
9. Thinking
10. Behavior
11. Abilities and Talents
12. Expressing Thoughts, Feelings, Perceptions
13. Making Evaluations
14. Family and Relatives
15. Social Relations
16. Education and Training
17. Professional Life
18. Economics
19. Finance and Insurance
20. Tools and Office Items
21. Use of Leisure Time
22. Sport
23. Tourism
24. Means of Communication
25. Media
26. Religion and Culture
27. Countries, Nationalities, Languages
28. The Organization of Government
29. Geography and Landscape Forms
30. Natural Environment
31. Animal Kingdom
32. Vegetable Kingdom
33. Man-made Environment
34. Transportation and Traffic
35. The Universe
	36 Shapes and Colors
37. Substances and Materials
38. Statements of Quantity
39. Space and Time
40. Structural Words
41. Verbs
Grammar Section
	Use of the Article
	Definite Article
	Indefinite Article
	Prepositions and Articles
	Personal and Reflexive Pronouns
	Unstressed Forms
	Combined Forms
	Stressed Forms
	Accusative
	Possessive Pronouns
	ci/ne
	Patterns of Conjugation of Regular Verbs
	Verbs Ending in -are
	Verbs Ending in -ere
	Verbs Ending in -ire
	Verbs Ending in -ire and Adding -isc- to the Stem
	Special Features of Tense Formation
	1.	Present Indicative
	2.	Present Subjunctive
	3.	Imperfect
	4.	Compound Tenses
	5.	Past Definite (Passato Remoto, Remote Past)
	6.	Formation of the Future Tense
	7.	Formation of the Participle
	8.	Imperative Forms
	9.	Special Features of Spelling
	Index of All Italian Entries