Thursday, March 16, 2006

It's Dead Week ... and I'm dead tired

From what I've heard, Dead Week is supposed to be a time when your professors, instructors, lay-people take it easy on you so that you can study for finals the following week. Nothing worth more than 20% of your grade is supposed to be due this week unless it's on the syllabus (which is a huge cop-out, but it's also kind of necessary as a loophole since we'd be bored stiff sitting in Writing class for an entire week without a paper due). Having said that (in parenthesis) I have a paper due this morning on Foucault and his panoptic theory of the societal structure and I'm trying to catch up on history and Italian--oh wait! speaking of ... what's all this then?

A. passato prossimo/imperfetto
I suggest you to study first the rules (p.216-218, 227) then to do the exercises in the doc.word attached (in course documents). You should do the exercises from “B” to “E”. The D exercise helps you to understand the right application for imperfetto/passato prossimo. The division of “Abitudini/Condizione” for
“imperfetto” reflect the following book’s rules: "abitudine"= rule “a” pag 117; "condizione" = rule “d” & “e” pag. 218. This classification does not include point “b”, pag. 217, and “c”, pag. 218. Please PRINT THE PAGES OF tHESE EXECISES (B, C, D, E); COMPLETE THE EXERCISES AND BRING THEM TO CLASS!!!

In the second doc word attached (in course documents) the exercise D - “passato prossimo o imperfetto?” includes the rules “b” & “c”. Please PRINT THE PAGES OF EXECISE D, COMPLETE THE EXERCISE AND BRING IT TO CLASS!!!

B. futuro.
practice forms with the following exercises, if you like:
http://web.uniud.it/clav/contatti/lettori/sbrizzai/esercizi2/es_7.htm

futuro irregolare
http://venus.unive.it/italslab/quattropassi/f43es2.htm
http://www.uvm.edu/~cmazzoni/3grammatica/grammatica/hotpotatoes/futuro_match.htm
http://www.uvm.edu/~cmazzoni/3grammatica/grammatica/hotpotatoes/futuro_quiz.htm

TURN IN A PARAGRAPH ABOUT "il fine settimana di Anna", on "dispense", pag 117.

C. all tenses
dispense pag 111,"carletto e francesca"
dispense pag 112-113 "il mio goggiorno a peugia"

Did I mention that the composizione we had to turn in on Monday is being returned today to be corrected and turned in again tomorrow? Oh, did I forget that the final is Monday night at 6 and we still don't know what room it's being held in? Oh, and the oral final was yesterday where my group was told that we talked like "Tarzan." ("I suggest you to study first the rules") Yeah ..... it's like that.

I've decided to make peace with Failure. We can be good friends...

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