Introduction. Part I: Speaking of the Present. Chapter 1: Jumping into Action with Italian Verbs. Chapter 2: Talking in the Present Tense. Chapter 3: Talking in the Present Tense with Irregular Verbs. Chapter 4: Shakespeare, Italian Style: To Be or Not to Be; To Have and Have Not. Chapter 5: Waking Up to Reflexive Verbs. Chapter 6: Giving a Command(ing) Performance with the Imperative.

Chapter 7: Declaring Your Likes (and Dislikes) with Piacere. Part II: Looking to the Past and the Future. Chapter 8: Once Upon a Time: The Imperfect Tense. Chapter 9: Reckoning Back to the Old Days: The Past Absolute Tense. Chapter 10: Che Sara Sara: Looking Ahead with the Future Tense. Chapter 11: Could-ing and Would-ing: The Conditional Tense. Chapter 12: Getting into the Present Subjunctive Mood. Chapter 13: I'd Like for You to Understand the Imperfect Subjunctive.

Part III: Building Compound Tenses. Chapter 14: Starting with the Present Perfect. Chapter 15: What Time Did You Get Up Today? Reflexive Verbs in the Past. Chapter 16: By Tomorrow, You'll Have Spoken of a Perfect (or Hypothetical) Future. Chapter 17: Second Guessing Your Actions with the Past Conditional. Chapter 18: Reminiscing about the Past Perfect. Chapter 19: I Hope That You've Had Fun! The Past Subjunctive. Chapter 20: Wrapping Up the Subjunctive with the Past Perfect.

Part IV: Reviewing a Few Underappreciated Tenses and Forms. Chapter 21: Hypothetically Speaking: "If" Clauses throughout the Tenses. Chapter 22: Putting a Personal Touch on the Impersonal and the Passive. Chapter 23: Progressing in Italian through Gerunds. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 24: Ten Most Frequently Used Verbs. Chapter 25: Ten Italian Verbs Most Frequently Mixed Up. Part VI: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Italian-to-English Glossary. Appendix B: English-to-Italian Glossary. Appendix C: Ten Common Irregular Verbs. Index.