Beauty and the Beast is a French 18th century fairy tale. It was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Her tale, which is as long as a novel, has been adapted numerous times. This nice retelling of the tale is more dependent on the Walt Disney Company.

Michela shows us how to conjugate verbs in the imperfetto (imperfect past tense). She covers -are verbs and -ere verbs. It's easy once you get the idea.

In some cases using an elision is not grammatically correct. Marika explains some of these cases.

The youngest piglet was right all along. Being a kind soul, he forgave his brothers.

Michela shows us how and when imperfect verbs are used to describe actions, people, weather, and time.

Marika tells us more about the use of elisions in Italian.

In this telling of the late 19th century British fairy tale, the wolf is bad but not big.

The imperfect tense is one of several past tenses in Italian. It can be tricky to use correctly because it doesn't always match up with one specific tense in English. Depending on the context, it is translated differently. Michela uses a timeline to help you understand.

Michela talks about adjectives that describe a person's personality.

Dixieland is left in the dark because Mister Sun has overslept. It's up to Dixi to go and wake him up. The vocabulary review features third person verbs in the passato remoto tense.

The verb fare (to do, to make) is used in lots of expressions. Marika talks about some of the most common ones.

Michela goes over some common personal adjectives. In English adjectives generally don't change according to gender, but with blond (m), blonde (f), brown-haired (m), brunette (f) they do change.

Dixi toys with the idea of being a bear. That's before he realizes that it would mean missing out on his daily breakfast cookies.

Marika has more tips on how to divide syllables and some fun practice words, too.

La luna di traverso (the moon on its side) is a way of saying "bad mood." Dixi got up on the wrong side of the bed, but being a magical little elephant, he has the actual sidelong moon on his hands. What to do?