CILS C1 case studies
CILS C1 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
This independent study page provides practice for CILS C1. Its editorial learning areas include Italian reading, written scripts and faithful interpretation; Italian structures, register and contextual vocabulary. The questions develop subject knowledge and application through worked reasoning, distinctions between competing answers, and practical scenarios. Study the relevant guide before attempting a mixed set, then explain the evidence or calculation that supports each answer. Topics on this exam: Italian reading, written scripts and faithful interpretation and Italian structures, register and contextual vocabulary. The CILS C1 case studies are 4 cases and about 895 words.
1Two notices, different limits
An original Italian reading exercise supplies two library notices. I libri si possono restituire venerdì fino alle 18. One friend thinks every library service is closed; another assumes an open branch must provide all ordinary services. The task asks the learner to test both statements against the supplied Italian, not against general library practice.
218 words, about 1 min2A survey headline overstates its denominator
The reading task asks the learner to explain the report’s limitation and revise the headline faithfully. The school contains exactly the 200 invited students in this invented exercise. The writer may later argue for the proposal, but that opinion must be distinguished from what the survey itself demonstrates. The numbers and statements are not claims about a real school.
226 words, about 1 min3Faithful mediation and a clear request
An original German source for a mediation exercise says that a school visit is planned for Friday, that the start time has changed from nine to ten and that visitors should bring identification. The task is to write a short Italian email to an adult host who will accompany the group. A draft begins „Ciao amico“ and later switches between tu and Lei. It still says the visit begins at nine, omits identification and invents a free lunch that the source never mentions.
225 words, about 1 min4A condition and a consequence
A group compares two newly composed Italian sentences: „Se piove, resto a casa“ and „Se piovesse, resterei a casa.“ The teacher asks for a contextual explanation rather than a universal rule that every clause with se uses a conditional. One learner wants to replace piovesse with pioverebbe simply because the situation is hypothetical. Another reads a separate sentence, „Luca sarà partito“, and labels sarà partito as conditional because the speaker may be making a guess. A third notices that the meaning of uncertainty and the morphological label are different issues.
226 words, about 1 min