Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marta tells Camilla what actually happened the night Nicola was killed. Lots of things start to make sense.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marta goes to the police with Camilla and realizes it was the right thing to do. As agreed upon, Berardi takes Camilla to dinner, where he tells her how the case was resolved. They get a surprise visit, too.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna tells us about her months of study in Potsdam and how beneficial the Erasmus experience was for her.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla finally proves to Marta, at great risk, that she just wants to help. And Marta tells her the truth.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This is a great chance to practice bone and muscle vocabulary, since that's what the pairing is about in this episode. The first contestant is named Santo. "Santo" means "saint," so there's some joking about it being just his name, not a description. Carlo, contestant number two is a musician and works in music therapy. He sings a few phrases of an aria from the Puccini opera Tosca.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tamara uses a synthetic modeling clay in her shop to make necklaces, personalized plaques, and much more. She uses a special kind of glue for this material.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika and Arianna discuss their favorite book genres, authors, and why they like to read.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla visits Marta to try and talk some sense into her, but then they both look out the window and see trouble coming in the form of two thugs Marta recognizes. Of course, Renzo is blithely reading the paper in the car, and has Camilla's cell phone. What to do?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika and Arianna discuss the Erasmus Program, a student exchange program that was founded in the late 1980s. It allows European university students to study at other EU country universities. The program is named after the Dutch humanist, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla's husband and daughter watch the video recording of the missed game on TV while Camilla decides what to do the next day (with the help of her dog), and enlists her husband's help.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We can see that the battle against using "Lei," the common, formal, second-person form of address, was taken very seriously by the fascists. In fact they went too far when it came to a popular women's magazine called "Lei" (she, her).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tamara, with Tania's help, continues with the decoration of a gift bag. The glue and glitter technique can also be used on handbags or t-shirts.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla goes to the police station to identify the two thugs who had attacked her, and who sold the drugs to Marta. She also confronts Marta who has been brought in for questioning, and who is wondering who on earth Camilla is, and what she wants from her.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Mussolini continues to get rid of any traces of foreign words, and even mounts an exhibit against the use of the common formal second person singular address "Lei" (you) in favor of "Voi." See this lesson about "Voi" to get some background.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla is taking risks to figure out who killed Nicola. But Commissioner Berardi shows up in time to whisk her away. He's none too happy about her interfering, but in the end, she gives him a hand by identifying some suspects.
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