C1 & C4 - assignments for week starting 5th November.

1)      Put the short passage below into Italian. N.B. : Consider text type

Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to four years' jail by an Italian court on Friday at the end of a lengthy trial for tax fraud related to the acquisition of TV rights by his company Mediaset – but it remains unlikely he will ever see a prison cell.

Under the Italian legal system, the country's former prime minister will be entitled to two appeals before a definitive sentence. Berlusconi's sentence will also be reduced to one year under a 2006 measure that stripped three years off sentences for crimes committed before that date.

Berlusconi was also banned from public office for five years and ordered to pay €10m (£8.3m) to the Italian tax office, measures that would take effect if his conviction is upheld by the two appeals

                                                                                                                        The Observer, 28^th October, 2012

2)      Read Chapter One of Mastering English  Language, “The Structure of English”, and then  complete the worksheet in the  analysis handout ( pages 3&4). For those of you who  were not at today’s lesson : There is now another handout available entitled “Analysis” which  you will need to  complete this work.