Chants, Rhythms and Rhymes for the Italian Classroom. Canti, Ritmi e Rime is an exciting, revolutionary way of teaching and reinforcing Italian through chants set to catchy tunes or penetrating beats. The chants teach both thematic topics (family, weather, house, body, countries, fruits, and occupations), and also grammatical points like commands, prepositions, object pronouns, past tense with essere and avere. These Canti are catchy and fun, but more importantly they are extremely effective and educational. Book/CD.